Pharmacy practice research group
Read more about our research below
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 ºÚÁϳԹÏ, 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Rutter, P. M., Harrison, T. & Mills, L., 1 Feb 2022, In: Pharmaceutical Journal. 308, 7958, 11 p.
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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