Professor MATTHEW BOYD's Outputs (6)

Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data (2022)
Journal Article
Naybour, M. T., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2024). Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 238(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X221135459

There are 11,619 community pharmacies in England which dispense over 1 billion prescriptions each year, providing essential primary care to NHS (National Health Service) patients. These pharmacies are facing pressure from a number of sources includin... Read More about Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data.

Modelling Reliability and Efficiency of English Community Pharmacy Processes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2020, January). Modelling Reliability and Efficiency of English Community Pharmacy Processes. Presented at 66th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2020), Palm Springs, California, USA

© 2020 IEEE. The research reported in this paper describes a Coloured Petri Net (CPN) method for modelling and analysing reliability and efficiency of the dispensing process in English community pharmacies. The results of CPN simulations are used wit... Read More about Modelling Reliability and Efficiency of English Community Pharmacy Processes.

Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2019, September). Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations. Presented at ESREL 2019, Hannover, Germany

he community pharmacy dispensing process is an integral part of delivering effective primary care to patients around the world. However, dispensing error rates and related patient safety issues are always a concern in the sector, where studies have f... Read More about Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations.

Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2019, September). Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations. Presented at 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), Hannover, Germany

The community pharmacy dispensing process is an integral part of delivering effective primary care to patients around the world. However, dispensing error rates and related patient safety issues are always a concern in the sector, where studies have... Read More about Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on in-field observations.

Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach (2018)
Journal Article
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. J. (2019). Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 182, 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.09.022

© 2018 It has been estimated that European customers visit community pharmacies to access essential primary healthcare around 46 million times every day. Studies of dispensing error rates in community pharmacies have reported error rates of between 0... Read More about Reliability and efficiency evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri-net approach.

Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net (2018)
Book Chapter
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2018). Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net. In S. Haugen, A. Barros, C. van Gulijk, T. Kongsvik, & J. E. Vinnem (Eds.), Safety and Reliability : Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway (2059-2066). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664-259

UK customers visited community pharmacies to receive NHS prescriptions 1.104 billion times in 2016. One study of dispensing errors found an error rate of 3.3%. Severe dispensing inaccuracies often receive a high level of media attention, however, low... Read More about Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net.