Pharmacy Practice Research Group

The Pharmacy Practice Division comprises thirteen pharmacists, of whom six have an active clinical role working in primary and secondary care. The majority of staff provide research informed teaching on clinical therapeutics, with some staff also being research active in fields of education, service improvement and better use of medicines, where we have active DPharm and PhD students.

Research partners

The practice group works closely with the (DSRU) at Burseldon, Hampshire, an associate college of the ��, collaborating with clinicians, pharmacists and scientists to apply their expertise in post-marketing surveillance to a range of shared research topics at Masters level. The unit produces world-class research into the safety of marketed medicines through the application of a variety of pharmacovigilance techniques including prescription event monitoring.

There are partnerships for research and innovation with the on medicines optimisation, and Wessex ARC on deprescribing.

Publications

Murewanhema, G., Dzinamarira, T., Chingombe, I., Mapingure, M. P., Mukwenha, S., Chitungo, I., Herrera, H., Madziva, R., Ngwenya, S. & Musuka, G. N., 10 Mar 2022, In: COVID. 2, 3, p. 341-349
Madziva, R., Murewanhema, G., Musuka, G., Mapingure, M. P., Chingombe, I., Herrera, H., Chiyaka, E. T. & Dzinamarira, T., 1 Jun 2022, In: Public Health in Practice. 3, 2 p., 100236.
Lin, S. X., Phillips, T., Culliford, D., Edwards, C., Holroyd, C., Ibrahim, K., Barrett, R., Howard, C., Johnson, R., Adams, J., Stammers, M., Rischin, A., Rutter, P., Barnes, N., Roderick, P. & Fraser, S. D., 1 Mar 2022, In: BJGP Open. 6, 1, 11 p., BJGPO.2021.0208.
Fraser, S. D., Lin, S. X., Stammers, M., Culliford, D., Ibrahim, K., Barrett, R., Howard, C., Johnson, R., Barnes, N., Batchelor, J., Holroyd, C., Adams, J., Rischin, A., Roderick, P., Rutter, P. & Edwards, C., 1 Jul 2022, In: British Journal of General Practice (BJGP). 72, 720, p. e528-e537
Rutter, P. M., Harrison, T. & Mills, L., 1 Feb 2022, In: Pharmaceutical Journal. 308, 7958, 11 p.
Ortiz De Zarate, M., Mentazakis, E., Fraser, S. D. S., Roderick, P., Rutter, P. & Ornaghi, C., 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 115, 3, p. 100-111 12 p.

Current projects

We are involved in a number of funded studies, including:

REVERSE - Looking at self-care in pre-hypertension
MODIFY - Looking at how best to deprescribe medicines in a multi professional environment
DECISIONS - Looking at improving stroke care pathways
MICROGUIDE-2 - Looking at improving antibiotic prescribing
INCUBATOR - Looking at clinical academic pathways for pharmacists

Other studies and collaborations include:

REDUCE Carbon study - Looking at 'green' inhaler choices
Pharmaceuticals and the environment
Clinical decision making

PhD/DPharm projects cover a wide range of topics and include:

Professionalism
Patient decision aids in gout and heart failure
Use of IT to support hypertension management
Muslim beliefs around medicine taking

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