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Research Awards

2010-2015 IMPACT Programme: Identification and Management of Psoriasis Associated Co-Morbidity

Recently funded by the NIHR (£1.94 million), this prestigious 5-year programme grant will provide a definitive picture of the burden of disease in psoriasis patients, apply knowledge about disease risk to the development of targeted screening services, investigate how this impacts upon patient experience and devise an evidence-based primary care based intervention to improve self-care and coping for people with psoriasis. This is a collaborative project between the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing at the University of Manchester.

2009-2010 Risk assessment of pharmacy practice

Recently funded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (£69,998), this project will examine risk in pharmacy practice, and provide advice on the assessment and management of risk that will be used to underpin the development of revalidation standards and processes for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians by the newly established General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).


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2008-2012 Learning from international networks about errors and understanding safety in primary care (LINNEAUS EURO-PC)*

Funded by the European Union Framework 7 (€2.26 million), the LINNEAUS EURO-PC collaboration brings together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, working at a pan-European level to raise the profile of multi-disciplinary research into the issue of patient safety in primary care, focussing on developing a patient safety taxonomy, developing methods for assessing and preventing diagnostic and medication errors, and assessing and intervening to improve safety culture.

2008-2009 Mapping the teaching and assessment of professionalism in pharmacy education and exploring its role in the transfer to practice

Funded by the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust (£40,000), this research project examined how professionalism is learned, cultivated and facilitated in the academic environment at three Schools of Pharmacy in the UK. This involved critically examining curriculum documentation to gather information about whether and how professionalism was covered, as well as examining student and staff perceptions and experiences (via interviews, focus groups, and observation of teaching sessions) on what constitutes professionalism, and how it is taught and assessed in the educational setting.

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Investigation into the causes of prescribing errors by foundation trainees in relation to their medical education

This study examined the prevalence of prescribing errors made by medical trainees and the extent to which such errors reflected weaknesses in medical education. This involved a prospective study of prescribing errors occurring in 20 hospitals, and in-depth qualitative interviews with medical trainees to identify the causes of these errors, in particular, exploring how the causes relate to the curricula of medical schools across the UK.
Funder: General Medical Council.
Duration: 2007 - 2009
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Impact of incentives on the behaviour and performance of primary care professionals (PCPs)

This longitudinal study explored and explained the impact of incentives in primary care on professional behaviours and performance. Specifically we will:

Funder: National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation
Duration: 2007 - 2009
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Patient safety in healthcare professional educational curricula: examining the learning experience

This study investigated the formal and informal ways that students from medicine, nursing and pharmacy learn about patient safety in order to become safe practitioners, and understand issues that impact upon teaching, learning and practicing patient safety in the academic, organisational and practice contexts. It was a collaborative project involving five UK universities (Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Surrey and UEA).
Funder: National Co-ordinating Centre for Patient Safety Research
Duration: 2006 - 2008
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Perceptions of adolescent and adult kidney transplant patients towards the risks and benefits of drug therapy

This was a Galen Award from the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust that was awarded to Jasmin Widmann (PhD Student). It supported her in undertaking advanced training in qualitative research methods at the National Centre for Social Research in London.
Funder: Pharmacy Practice Research Trust, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Duration: 2006 - 2007
Supervisors:
Darren Ashcroft and Peter Noyce

Using patients to assess the communication skills of pharmacy students: development and evaluation of an assessment tool

This 12-month study was the first systematic attempt to identify criteria that could be used by patients to assess the communication skills of pharmacy students during clinical placements. It involved conducting a detailed Delphi exercise with academic and teaching staff from three UK Schools of Pharmacy (Aston, Cardiff and Manchester) and then subsequent evaluation of the use of the criteria with patients being interviewed by MPharm students at University of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Funder: Pharmacy Practice Research Trust, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Duration: 2005 - 2006
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Evaluation of primary care-led commissioning of community pharmacy services

This 18-month study was commissioned by the Department of Health to gather detailed data on the commissioning and delivery of pharmaceutical services in England following the implementation of the new national contractual framework for community pharmacy. This involved a national survey of Primary Care Trusts, in-depth case study evaluations and a detailed ecological study examining whether measures of population morbidity and health needs influenced the commissioning of pharmaceutical services.
Funder: Department of Health, Policy Research Programme
Duration: 2005 - 2006
Research team:
Darren Ashcroft, Fay Bradley, Rebecca Elvey, Peter Noyce

National evaluation of repeat dispensing by community pharmacists

This 12-month study was commissioned by the Department of Health to examine in-depth the implementation of repeat dispensing by community pharmacists in 20 national pathfinder sites using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings from this evaluation informed the implementation of the new national contract for community pharmacy; repeat dispensing was included in the contract as an essential service to be provided by all community pharmacies.
Funder: Department of Health, Policy Research Programme
Duration: 2005 - 2006
Research team:
Darren Ashcroft, Charles Morecroft, Rebecca Elvey, Fay Bradley, Peter Noyce.

Comparison of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of three strategies for reducing the lifetime fracture risk in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) - a systematic review with economic modelling

This study involved conducting systematic reviews evaluating the efficacy and safety of treatments for JIA, detailed evaluation of two prospective cohort studies of children with JIA in the UK, and evaluating the cost impact during the first year of diagnosis.
Funder: National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment
Duration: 2004 - 2006
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Establishing Patients' Preferences for the Treatment of Psoriasis: application of discrete choice experiments

This 9-month project explored patients' and prescribers' perceptions towards the risks and benefits associated with drug treatments for psoriasis. This involved in-depth interviews with psoriasis sufferers, and complex survey work involving the design and analysis of stated preference choice experiments.
Funder: Galderma International
Duration: 2004 - 2005
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Delivering Patient Safety in Community Pharmacy: Preventing Medication Errors

This project involved a number of component studies designed to determine the types of adverse events that occur in community pharmacies, their level of incidence, and underlying causes, and to understand the prevailing risk management culture in the community pharmacy setting.
Funder: Community Pharmacy Research Consortium, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Duration: 2003 - 2004
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2003-2005 National Evaluation of Local Pharmaceutical Services (LPS) pilots

This was a major 2-year study from the Department of Health in which 20 LPS pilot sites were evaluated using a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Following the evaluation, the LPS contractual framework was implemented across England, providing a novel option for the commissioning of pharmaceutical services.
Funder: Department of Health, Policy Research Programme
Duration: 2003 - 2005
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