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Transition from undergraduate education to early careers practice: preparedness for dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in practice (2019)
Journal Article
White. (2019). Transition from undergraduate education to early careers practice: preparedness for dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in practice. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 19 -19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12532

From supplementary issue of the Internatonal Journal of Pharmacy Practice, abstracts of Papers Presented at the Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 8–9 April 2019, Birmingham, UK

Transition from undergraduate education to early careers practice: preparedness for dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in practice. (2019)
Journal Article
Allinson, & White. (2019). Transition from undergraduate education to early careers practice: preparedness for dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in practice. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12532

Introduction: Empirical evidence is lacking regarding transition to community pharmacy practice[1]; this study explores one aspect of transition, dealing with ethical dilemmas.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of alumni f... Read More about Transition from undergraduate education to early careers practice: preparedness for dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in practice..

A systematic review of the outcome data supporting the Healthy Living Pharmacy concept and lessons from its implementation. (2019)
Journal Article
Jamal Nazar, Z., Nazar, H., White, S., & Rutter, P. (2019). A systematic review of the outcome data supporting the Healthy Living Pharmacy concept and lessons from its implementation. PloS one, 14(3), Article e0213607. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213607

BACKGROUND:
The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) project, launched in England, UK in 2009 was a novel approach of introducing public health services within community pharmacy to tackle local health inequalities. A national roll-out followed a reported... Read More about A systematic review of the outcome data supporting the Healthy Living Pharmacy concept and lessons from its implementation..

Evaluating associations between metabolic health, obesity and depressive symptoms: a prospective analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) with a 2-year follow-up. (2018)
Journal Article
Slater, N., Rowley, C., Venables, R., White, S., & Frisher, M. (2018). Evaluating associations between metabolic health, obesity and depressive symptoms: a prospective analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) with a 2-year follow-up. BMJ Open, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025394

OBJECTIVES: Conflicting results have been reported when the associations between metabolic health, obesity and depression were examined previously. The primary aim of this study was to determine whether metabolic health or obesity are independently a... Read More about Evaluating associations between metabolic health, obesity and depressive symptoms: a prospective analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) with a 2-year follow-up..

Conceptualising multiple drug use in patients with comorbidity and multimorbidity: proposal for standard definitions beyond the term polypharmacy. (2018)
Journal Article
Kadam, U. T., Roberts, I., White, S., Bednall, R., Khunti, K., Nilsson, P. M., & Lawson, C. A. (2019). Conceptualising multiple drug use in patients with comorbidity and multimorbidity: proposal for standard definitions beyond the term polypharmacy. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 106, 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.10.014

With older and ageing populations, patients experience multiple chronic diseases at the same time. Individual chronic disease guidelines often recommend pharmacological therapies as a key intervention, resulting in patients being prescribed multiple... Read More about Conceptualising multiple drug use in patients with comorbidity and multimorbidity: proposal for standard definitions beyond the term polypharmacy..

Virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists: development and proof of concept (2018)
Journal Article
Richardson, C. L., Chapman, S., & White, S. (2019). Virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists: development and proof of concept. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 5(3), 167-169. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjstel-2018-000352

Pharmacist–patient counselling can benefit patients and optimise care, but appropriate training is required. A virtual patient (VP) tool to teach pharmacists non-vitamin K oral anticoagulant counselling was developed; the VP may be used for continuin... Read More about Virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists: development and proof of concept.

Factors associated with polypharmacy in primary care: a cross-sectional analysis of data from The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). (2018)
Journal Article
Slater, N., White, S., Venables, R., & Frisher, M. (2018). Factors associated with polypharmacy in primary care: a cross-sectional analysis of data from The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). BMJ Open, 8(3), Article e020270. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020270

OBJECTIVES: While older age and ill health are known to be associated with polypharmacy, this paper aims to identify whether wealth, body mass index (BMI), smoking and alcohol consumption are also associated with polypharmacy (5-9 prescribed medicati... Read More about Factors associated with polypharmacy in primary care: a cross-sectional analysis of data from The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)..

Development of an international comorbidity education framework (2017)
Journal Article
Lawson, C., Pati, S., Green, J., Messina, G., Strömberg, A., Nante, N., …Kadam, U. (2017). Development of an international comorbidity education framework. Nurse Education Today, 55, 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2017.05.011

Context
The increasing number of people living with multiple chronic conditions in addition to an index condition has become an international healthcare priority. Health education curricula have been developed alongside single condition frameworks i... Read More about Development of an international comorbidity education framework.

Adherence with oral chemotherapy in a cancer unit in Northern Ireland (2016)
Journal Article
Doyle, C., White, S., & Mills, L. (2016). Adherence with oral chemotherapy in a cancer unit in Northern Ireland. Journal of Medicines Optimisation, 2(2), 28 - 33

Introduction
Studies in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) have shown that adherence to oral chemotherapy is fundamental in
achieving good responses where better adherence (>90%) is critical in achieving a major molecular response.
The aims of this s... Read More about Adherence with oral chemotherapy in a cancer unit in Northern Ireland.

Disadvantaged former miners’ perspectives on smoking cessation: A qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
White, S., & Baird, W. (2013). Disadvantaged former miners’ perspectives on smoking cessation: A qualitative study. Health Education Journal, 72(6), 755-760. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896912468817

Objective:
To explore disadvantaged former miners’ perspectives in north Derbyshire, United Kingdom (UK) on smoking and smoking cessation.
Methods:
In-depth, audiotaped interviews with 16 disadvantaged former miners who smoked or had stopped smoki... Read More about Disadvantaged former miners’ perspectives on smoking cessation: A qualitative study.

Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on Healthy Living Pharmacies: A qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Brooks, D., Hopps, A., & White, S. (2013). Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on Healthy Living Pharmacies: A qualitative study. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 21(S2),

The HLP initiative has led to quality and productivity improvements in community pharmacy, and better public access to health and wellbeing services.1 Key features include quality and performance criteria for services provided and trained Healthy Liv... Read More about Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on Healthy Living Pharmacies: A qualitative study.

A qualitative study of cardiac rehabilitation patients' perspectives on taking medicines: implications for the 'medicines-resistance' model of medicine-taking (2013)
Journal Article
White. (2013). A qualitative study of cardiac rehabilitation patients' perspectives on taking medicines: implications for the 'medicines-resistance' model of medicine-taking. BMC Health Services Research, 302 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-302

BACKGROUND: The appropriate use of medicines continues to be an important area of inter-disciplinary research activity both in the UK and beyond. Key qualitative work in this area in the last decade has included the 'medicines resistance' model of me... Read More about A qualitative study of cardiac rehabilitation patients' perspectives on taking medicines: implications for the 'medicines-resistance' model of medicine-taking.

Cardiac rehabilitation: impact of graded exercise in the recovery period following myocardial infarction (2013)
Journal Article
White, S. (in press). Cardiac rehabilitation: impact of graded exercise in the recovery period following myocardial infarction. Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology, 2013(4), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.2147/rrcc.s30955

This paper reviews the impact of graded exercise undertaken as part of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program in the recovery period following a myocardial infarction, focusing on how CR may be best provided and the evidence-base relating to exercise-... Read More about Cardiac rehabilitation: impact of graded exercise in the recovery period following myocardial infarction.