News and announcements
7th Biennial International Conference in Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (11-14 April 2010), Birmingham
April 2010
CIP members of staff presented their findings at the 7th Biennial International Conference in Organisational Behaviour in Health Care in Birmingham. See conference proceeding page for more details.
16th Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference (11-12 April 2010), Manchester
April 2010
A number of CIP members of staff presented their findings at the 16th Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference in Manchester. See conference proceeding page for more details.
Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire pharmacy tool - English, Dutch, German, Danish and Portugese versions now available
February 2010
CIP have produced the first safety climate tool designed specifically for use in pharmacies. Versions are available for use in community pharmacy and hospital settings. The safety climate tools available in several languages from this page.
RPSGB research grant awarded to CIP - Risk Assessment in Pharmacy Practice
January 2010
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has awarded the CIP a research grant to investigate the assessment of risk in pharmacy practice. This project, which is being carried out in collaboration with researchers from Manchester Business School, aims to provide the RPSGB with an understanding of how to identify high-risk and low-risk practitioners so that regulatory efforts can be targeted appropriately.
38th European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy (3-6 November 2009), Geneva, Switzerland
November 2009
Darren Ashcroft presented at two workshops at the 38th European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy held in Geneva.
Indicators for quality and safety of pharmaceutical care. D. Ashcroft, P. Noyce, M. Bouvy.
Examining safety climate and culture in pharmacy settings. D. Ashcroft,P. Noyce, M. Bouvy.
Pharmacy safety climate survey
October 2009
CIP has made the safety climate survey tool available. You can download both English and Danish versions of the form, from the Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire webpage.
Latest publication from CIP - Equity in the distribution of community pharmacies in England: impact of regulatory reform
September 2009
Equity in the distribution of community pharmacies in England: impact of regulatory reform. Andrew Wagner , Mark Hann , Peter Noyce, Darren Ashcroft. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.14:4;243-248. External link
Latest publication from CIP - Medication safety in community pharmacy: a qualitative study of the sociotechnical context
September 2009
Medication safety in community pharmacy: a qualitative study of the sociotechnical context. Denham L Phipps, Peter R Noyce, Dianne Parker,Darren M Ashcroft. BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:158 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-158. External link
CIP Director receives the 2009 BPC Practice Research Award
August 2009
Dr Darren Ashcroft has been announced the winner of the 2009 Practice Research Award, sponsored by the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust. The BPC Practice Research Award is presented annually by the Trust to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of pharmacy practice research and has the potential to become a leader in their field. Darren received the award in recognition of his work into medicines usage and in particular quality and safety. The award will be presented to him at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester on 7th September 2009.
Latest publication from CIP - Prevalence, Incidence and Nature of Prescribing Errors in Hospital Inpatients - A Systematic Review
May 2009
Prevalence, Incidence and Nature of Prescribing Errors in Hospital Inpatients - A Systematic Review. Lewis PJ, Dornan T,Taylor D, Tully MP, Wass V, Ashcroft DM. Drug Safety 2009; 32 (5): 379-389 External link
American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and the European Society for Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) International Congress, Orlando
April 2009
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Steve Williams presented his poster "Attitudes of hospital pharmacists to reporting medication errors: insights from focus groups" at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and the European Society for Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) International Congress. Florida: Orlando, (24-28th April 2009). |
CIP was well represented at the conference with the following research studies also presented: Ashcroft DM, Parker D. "The culture of safety: results from a cross-sectional survey of 998 community pharmacists." Kongkaew C, Noyce P, Williams S, Metcalfe D, Mandal J, Ashcroft DM. "Drug-related hospital admissions: prospective analysis of 3904 patients." Williams SD, Ashcroft DM. "Examining patient safety climate in the hospital pharmacy setting: a cross-sectional survey."
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Latest publication from CIP - Development of the Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire
February 2009
Published CIP research develops and examines the component structure and internal consistency, of a questionnaire designed to assess safety climate in the community pharmacy setting.
Development of the Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire: a principal components analysis Development of the Pharmacy Safety Climate. Ashcroft DM, Parker D. Qual. Saf. Health Care 2009;18: 28-81. External link
Systematic review of the prevalence and incidence of prescribing errors published
December 2008
Penny Lewis and Darren Ashcroft from CIP were amongst the authors of 'The prevalence and incidence of prescribing errors: Systematic Review. Report to The General Medical Council'. The report highlights threats to patient safety and wide variablity in reported prevalence and incidence of prescribing errors, with likely variablity in the quality of healthcare.
- The prevalence and incidence of prescribing errors: Systematic Review. Report to The General Medical Council. Penny J Lewis, Tim Dornan, David Taylor, Mary P, Tully, Val Wass, Darren M Ashcroft. Link to report (PDF - 470k)
CIP presents work at presents at the 43rd American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting
December 2008
CIP presented three studies at the 43rd American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Orlando, Florida (7-11 December 2008). The studies presented were:
- Framework for understanding quality in the community pharmacy setting. Halsall D, Noyce P, Ashcroft D.
- Errors and violations in community pharmacies: a focus group study. Ashcroft DM, Parker D, Noyce P.
- Understanding safety climate in community pharmacies: cross-sectional study in the UK. Ashcroft DM, Parker D.
Darren Ashcroft presents at 25th Conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua)
October 2008
Dr Darren Ashcroft attended the 25th ISQua International Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen between 19 - 22 October 2008, where he presented two papers "Safety climate in community pharmacies: Exploring the impact of demographic and organisational factors" and "Patient safety in the community pharmacy setting: insights from Human Error Theory".
CIP researcher Fay Bradley receives NIHR training fellowship
October 2008
Fay Bradley, a researcher in the CIP group has recently been awarded a highly competitive National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) training fellowship. The £265,000 award will provide three years full-time funding for Fay to undertake a PhD, supervised by Dr Darren Ashcroft (School of Pharmacy) and Prof Nick Crossley (Sociology).
NIHR training fellowships are aimed at individuals of outstanding potential early in their research career. Fay’s PhD will explore inter-professional collaboration between community pharmacists and general practitioners, an area of major interest to current health policy as highlighted in the recent government White Paper on pharmacy. Fay will be adopting a novel approach to this topic, using social network analysis.
Darren Ashcroft presents at 17th Annual Meeting of the EuroPharm Forum
October 2008
Dr Darren Ashcroft presented a plenary lecture on “Reimbursed Cognitive Services in Europe” at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen on 4th October. Full details of the EuroPharm Annual Meeting are available here.
Latest publications from CIP
September 2008
Two papers have recently been published concerning integration of pharmacy practice with primary care in England:
Elvey R, Ashcroft DM, Noyce P. GP engagement: the key to repeat dispensing? International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2008; 16: 303-308. External link
Bradley F, Elvey R, Ashcroft DM, Hassell K, Kendall J; Sibbald B; Noyce P. The challenge of integrating community pharmacists into the primary health care team: A case study of local pharmaceutical services (LPS) pilots and interprofessional collaboration. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2008;22,4 387-398. External link
CIP at British Pharmaceutical Conference, Manchester, 2008
September 2008
CIP had a strong presence at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference held at Manchester Central between 7-9 September 2008, disseminating findings around quality and safety in pharmacy practice.
Devina Halsall presented on "What is quality in the community pharmacy setting? Development of a conceptual framework", with Fay Bradley presenting "Patient safety in pharmacy education: what is the role of the hidden curriculum?". Jane Ferguson presented "Job satisfaction of pharmacists: a critical appraisal of existing tools".Steve Williams had a poster "Examining patient safety climate in the hospital pharmacy setting: a cross-sectional survey". The abstracts are available in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. 16, Supplement 3 2008 and from this external link.
24th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management, Copenhagen
August 2008
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Amr Saad presented a poster "Drug persistence on anti-TNF-a agents in psoriatic arthritis" at the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology's (ISPE) 24th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management in Copenhagen, 17-20 August, 2008. Penny Lewis also presented "Systematic review examining the prevalence and nature of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients". Abstracts for both presentations are available in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
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Systematic review of hospital admissions associated with adverse drug reactions
July 2008
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy have published a detailed systematic review prepared by members of the CIP team (Chuenjid Kongkaew, Peter Noyce and Darren Ashcroft) that examined the prevalence of hospital admissions associated with adverse drug reactions (ADRs).The systematic review included 25 observational studies conducted in 14 countries and involving 106,586 patients. The review found that there was wide variation in reported prevalence, with an overall median rate of 5.3% of hospital admissions associated with ADRs (IQR 2.7 - 9.0%). Higher rates were found in elderly patients likely to be receiving multiple medications for long-term illnesses. The review also found that the methods used to detect ADRs were likely to explain much of the variation in reported rates between the different studies.
- View the article here (external link)
Dr Sally Jacobs joins CIP
July 2008
CIP are pleased to welcome a new member of staff, Dr Sally Jacobs. Sally joins us from the University of Manchester's Personal Social Services Research Unit.
CIP present work at the 2008 Joint SDO and HSRN conference in Manchester
June 2008
Chuenjid Kongkaew and Andrew Wagner presented posters at the joint National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme and Health Services Research Network conference in Manchester on the 4th and 5th June 2008.
- Hospital admissions associated with non-compliance to medications: a systematic review of prospective observational studies. (Kongkaew C, Noyce PR, Ashcroft DM)
- Equity of community pharmacy distribution in England between 2004 and 2006. (Wagner AC, Hann M, Ashcroft DM)
Assessing quality in community pharmacy
April 2008
CIP researcher Devina Halsall's paper, "Assessing quality in community pharmacy" has been published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. The paper is a systematic review of quality assessment instruments used in community pharmacy, evaluating their validity, reliability, feasibility and acceptability. Reference: Assessing quality in community pharmacy. Halsall D; Ashcroft D; Noyce P. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2008 , 16 (3) pp 137-148.
CIP present work at the 2008 Drug Utilisation Research Group (UK and Ireland) Conference
March 2008
CIP were well represented at this year's DURG conference which took place at The Royal Society of Medicine in London on February 7th 2008. The conference theme was "Target Driven Medicine — Is this the End of Prescribing Freedom?". Two conference abstracts from CIP researchers were accepted:
- Hospital admissions associated with adverse drug events: A systematic review of prospective observational studies. (Kongkaew C, Noyce PR, Ashcroft DM) and
- Influence of population characteristics on prescribing of hypnotics and anxiolytics in general practice (Wagner AC, Ashworth M, Ashcroft DM)
The abstracts are available in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2008. 17:4;315-423.
- View the abstracts here (external link)
Recent CIP associated publications
January 2008
A full list of CIP journal articles can be accessed here:
Chen LC, Ashcroft DM. Meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of zolmitriptan in the acute treatment of migraine. Headache 2008; 48: 236-247.
Ashcroft DM, Chen LC, Garside R, Stein K, Williams HC. Topical pimecrolimus for eczema. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; 2007 (Issue 4).
Chen LC, Ashcroft DM, Elliott RA. Do economic evaluations have a role in decision-making in Medicine Management Committees? A qualitative study. Pharmacy World and Science 2007; 29: 661-670.
Seston EM, Ashcroft DM, Griffiths CEM. Balancing the benefits and risks of drug treatment: a stated preference discrete choice experiment with patients with psoriasis. Archives of Dermatology 2007; 143(9): 1175-1179.
Chen LC, Ashcroft DM. Meta-analysis examining the efficacy and safety of almotriptan in the acute treatment of migraine. Headache 2007; 47: 1169-1177.
Chen LC, Ashcroft DM. Risk of myocardial infarction associated with selective COX-2 inhibitors: Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2007; 16: 762-772.
Patient Safety Research Conference Porto 2007
December 2007
Dr Darren Ashcroft attended "Patient Safety Research: shaping the European agenda" at the Alfandega Congress Centre in Porto. The conference focused on present and future patient safety research in Europe. Darren's contributions to the conference proceedings were :-
Ashcroft DM, Parker D, Morecroft C, Noyce PR. Judgements on rule-related behaviour in community pharmacy.
Ashcroft DM, Morecroft C, Parker D, Noyce PR. Understanding procedural violations in the community pharmacy setting: A focus group study.
Ashcroft DM, Archer J, Parker D. Measuring safety climate in the community pharmacy setting: Findings from a national cross-sectional survey.
Parker D, Kirk S, Claridge T, Lawrie M, Ashcroft D. The Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF).
(Patient Safety Research: shaping the European agenda - Conference proceedings: (090; 010; 011; 112). Portugal: Porto, 24-26th September 2007)
Annual Meeting of The Society for Medical Decision Making
November 2007
Dr Darren Ashcroft attended the 29th Annual Meeting of The Society for Medical Decision Making in Pittsburgh, USA. The conference focused on xxploring the science of decisions and consumer-driven, individualized health care. Darren presented presented a poster about "Patient preferences for drug treatments for psoriasis: A discrete choice experiment", Ashcroft DM, Seston E, Griffiths CEM.
BPC - Manchester 2007
September 2007
CIP was well represented at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester. Devina Halsall was amongst the prize winners for her poster "How can community pharmacies provide quality of care? The patient and carer perspective". CIP members also presented on the following:
"Exploring the domains of professionalism in pharmacy education: a nominal group study." (Hall J, Ashcroft D.)
"How can community pharmacies provide quality of care? The patient and carer perspective." (Halsall D, Ashcroft DM, Noyce PR.)
"Use of a new patient-completed questionnaire to assess the communication skills of pharmacy students." (Mackellar A, Bell D, Ashcroft D.)
"Delivering enhanced community pharmacy services: qualitative insights into the process of innovation." (F Bradley, R Elvey, DM Ashcroft and P Noyce)
"Immunosuppressive drugs: what do kidney transplant patients think about the risks and benefits." (JD Widmann, PR Noyce, NR Parrott and DM Ashcroft)
"Implementing clinical governance under the new contract for community pharmacy: approaches, successes and challenges." (R Elvey, F Bradley, DM Ashcroft and P Noyce)
You can find out more about these studies in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2007:15,Supplement 2. Full references are available here.
