Dr Mary Tully BSc (Hons), MSc (Hospital Pharmacy), PhD, MRPharmS
Role
Specialist advisor to Northwest NHS Research Design Service
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
Esteem Indicators
Chair of Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe 2009-2011
Chair of Royal Pharmaceutical Society Conference, Sept 2011
Awarded Chemist & Druggist Practice Research Medal in 2007 for significant contribution to the field of pharmacy practice research
Member of the Editorial Board of 'Pharmacy Practice'
Member of International Advisory Board of 'International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy (formerly Pharmacy World & Science)' 2006-2012
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of 'Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy'
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of 'Pharmacy Practice' (previously 'Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico')
Memberships of Professional Organisations
General Pharmaceutical Council
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Higher Education Authority
Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE)
European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP)
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA)
Committee Membership
Chair of Board of School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences 2008-2012
Chair of Governance Committee of NorthWest e-Health
Chair of Salford Vascular Biorepository Steering Group
Chair of University of Manchester Senate Ethics Committee 3
Member of Faculty Fitness to Practise panel
Member of School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Research committee
Research
My main research interests are the prescribing process in secondary care and its outcome and this is reflected in the research with which I have been involved.
- Prescribing errors – together with Professor Tim Dornan and five others, I have investigated the prevalence and causes of prescribing errors made by foundation year 1 doctors, concentrating on the interplay between doctors’ educational backgrounds and factors in the practice environment. This research was funded by the General Medical Council.
- Impact of the electronic patient record (EPR) - together with Professor Cantrill and others, a pilot study has been undertaken in the North-West to investigate the impact of electronic prescribing in secondary care on prescribing errors. The impact of the EPR on the work of clinical pharmacists was assessed by a PhD student in Manchester. A further PhD student investigated the use of data from electronic prescribing systems to improve the methodology of assessing the epidemiology of prescribing errors
- Prescribing by pharmacists - funding was obtained to explore, using qualitative interviews, the views and experiences of pharmacists who become supplementary prescribers, focusing on perceptions of changing roles, responsibilities and accountability. A current PhD student is continuing this line of enquiry with non-medical prescribers generally and an MPhil student is investigating successful models of pharmacist prescribing in community pharmacy.
Teaching
Teaching:
Social Pharmacy (PHAR30392, Level 3)
Professional ethics (PHAR 40611, Level 4)
Undergraduate projects (PHAR 40500, Level 4)
Critical Analysis & Communication (PHAR 40500, Level 4)
Research methods in pharmacy practice research (PHAR 60092, first year Postgraduate Diploma)
Module leader:
Disease Management 3 PHAR 40302 (Level 4)
Medicines Management and Practice Research (PHAR 60092, first year Postgraduate Diploma)
Clinical Pharmacy Practice & Therapeutics 2 (PHAR 60101, second year Postgraduate Diploma)
Examination responsibilities:
Senior internal examiner for Social Pharmacy and Professional units
Biography
I am Reader in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, splitting my time between The University of Manchester and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, the latter for one day per week. My main areas of research interest are the prescribing process in secondary care and its outcome and, in particular, prescribing conducted by junior doctors and supplementary or independent prescribers.
After registering as a pharmacist in Northern Ireland in 1983, I worked for 2½ years in a mission hospital in Zambia, Central Africa, before returning to Belfast in 1986 to begin an MSc in Hospital Pharmacy. I worked as a clinical pharmacist in Hope Hospital, Salford, until the lure of research drew me to do my PhD in the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, in 1994. I continued to work there as a post-doctoral researcher after securing a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship and took up an appointment clinical lecturer in 1999 and was promoted to clinical senior lecturer in 2006 and reader in 2011. I was invited to be Visiting Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, University of Uppsala, Sweden from 2003 to 2008.
Qualifications
- 1997 - PhD - University of Manchester
- 1987 - Master of Science in Hospital Pharmacy - The Queen's University of Belfast
- 1982 - Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Pharmacy - The Queen's University of Belfast
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Selected publications
2011
- Abdel-Qader, D., Cantrill, J. & Tully, M (2011). Validating reasons for medication discontinuation in electronic patient records at hospital discharge. J Eval Clin Pract, 17(6), 1160-6. eScholarID:157863 | PMID:21219547 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01486.x
- Lewis, P. & Tully, M (2011). The discomfort caused by patient pressure on the prescribing decisions of hospital prescribers. Res Social Adm Pharm, 7(1), 4-15. eScholarID:121619 | PMID:21397877 | DOI:10.1016/j.sapharm.2010.02.002
- Renberg, T., Wichman Törnqvist, K., Kälvemark Sporrong, S., Kettis Lindblad, A. & Tully, M (2011). Pharmacy users' expectations of pharmacy encounters: a Q-methodological study. Health Expect, 14(4), 361-73. eScholarID:157864 | PMID:21199199 | DOI:10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00643.x
- Tully, M., Beckman-Gyllenstrand, A. & Bernsten, C (2011). Factors predicting poor counselling about prescription medicines in Swedish community pharmacies. Patient Educ Couns, 83(1), 3-6. eScholarID:121621 | PMID:20605395 | DOI:10.1016/j.pec.2010.04.029
2010
- Abdel-Qader, D., Cantrill, J. & Tully, M (2010). Satisfaction predictors and attitudes towards electronic prescribing systems in three UK hospitals. Pharm World Sci, 32(5), 581-93. eScholarID:92438 | PMID:20593237 | DOI:10.1007/s11096-010-9411-z
- Derar H. Abdel-Qader, Lindsay Harper, Judith A. Cantrill, Mary P. Tully. (2010). Pharmacists' Interventions in Prescribing Errors at Hosptial Discharge. Drug Safety, 33(11), 1027-1044. eScholarID:92439 | DOI:10.2165/11538310-000000000-00000
- Montgomery, A., Kälvemark Sporrong, S., Manap, N., Tully, M. & Lindblad, A (2010). Receiving a pharmaceutical care service compared to receiving standard pharmacy service in Sweden-How do patients differ with regard to perceptions of medicine use and the pharmacy encounter? Res Social Adm Pharm, 6(3), 185-95. eScholarID:89692 | PMID:20813332 | DOI:10.1016/j.sapharm.2009.09.002
2009
- Crowe S, Tully MP, Cantrill JA. (2009). The prescribing of specialist medicines: what factors influence GPs' decision making? Fam Pract, 26, eScholarID:1d20184 | DOI:10.1093/fampra/cmp030
- Lewis PJ, Dornan TL, Taylor D, Tully MP, Wass V, Ashcroft DM. (2009). Prevalence, incidence and nature of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a systematic review. Drug Safety, 32( 5), 379-89. eScholarID:1d19202 | DOI:10.2165/00002018-200932050-00002
- Lewis, P. & Tully, M (2009). Uncomfortable prescribing decisions in hospitals: the impact of teamwork. J R Soc Med, 102(11), 481-8. eScholarID:74338 | PMID:19875537 | DOI:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090150
- Ljungberg C, Lindblad A, Tully MP. (2009). Secondary care doctors' perception of appropriate prescribing. J Eval Clin Pract, 15( 1), 110-5. eScholarID:1d18852 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.00963.x
- Penny J Lewis, Mary P. Tully. (2009). The discomfort of an evidence-based prescribing decision. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 15, 1152-1158. eScholarID:76367 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01250.x
- Tully, M. & Buchan, I (2009). Prescribing errors during hospital inpatient care: factors influencing identification by pharmacists. Pharm World Sci, 31, 682-688. eScholarID:71826 | PMID:19777366 | DOI:10.1007/s11096-009-9332-x
- Tully, M., Ashcroft, D., Dornan, T., Lewis, P., Taylor, D. & Wass, V (2009). The causes of and factors associated with prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a systematic review. Drug Saf, 32(10), 819-36. eScholarID:40800 | PMID:19722726 | DOI:10.2165/11316560-000000000-00000