Medicines Management
Medicines Management is an award winning, multi-disciplinary group which undertakes research in evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of novel interventions and services aimed at improving patient health. The group's programme of research is focussed around older people and mental illness. It has developed strong collaborations with the School of Medicine, as well as extensive collaborative links with NHS providers both locally and nationally.
The key research themes of the group are to develop and evaluate:
- Pharmacist led services
- Interventions to improve medication adherence
- Consultation skills
- Medication review services
- Interventions to reduce the problems associated with dysphagia
Recent research activity has resulted in the ongoing provision of a county wide medicine support service and continued research seeks to build the evidence base for community pharmacy enhanced services with evaluations of pharmacist led eczema management and epilepsy clinics. Our close links with patients and practitioners has been a major factor in attracting resources from a wide range of funding sources including Research councils and the pharmaceutical industry. We also run a successful Post graduate diploma in general pharmacy practice and place a high value on research projects conducted by both post graduate and undergraduate students. We welcome enquires from prospective PhD and post doctoral students plus holders of externally funded fellowships.
- Intentional and unintentional medication non-adherence including the use of administration aids
- Development of the role of PCT and community pharmacists
- Development of interventions informed by theoretical behaviour models
- Medication review
- Development of pharmacist consultation skills
- Health services research in primary and secondary care involving medicines management
- Development of the role of the pharmacist in both primary and secondary care
- Care of older people and optimisation of drug therapy, particularly in those patients with swallowing difficulties
- Medicines management in care homes