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Exploring community pharmacists' use of health literacy interventions in their everyday practice. (2022)
Journal Article
White, S., & Cork, T. (2022). Exploring community pharmacists' use of health literacy interventions in their everyday practice. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 18(11), 3948-3952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.06.007

BACKGROUND: Limited health literacy often results in people inadequately understanding medicines-related information and subsequently not taking medicines as prescribed. Using health literacy interventions is important for community pharmacists, as t... Read More about Exploring community pharmacists' use of health literacy interventions in their everyday practice..

Professional Dilemmas Experienced by Pharmacy Graduates in the United Kingdom When Transitioning to Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Allinson, M., Black, P., & White, S. (2022). Professional Dilemmas Experienced by Pharmacy Graduates in the United Kingdom When Transitioning to Practice. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 86(5), Article 8643. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8643

Objective. For many UK pharmacy students there are minimal opportunities to learn, or be exposed to, different ways of dealing with ethical and professional dilemmas in real life practice during undergraduate education. This study aimed to explore th... Read More about Professional Dilemmas Experienced by Pharmacy Graduates in the United Kingdom When Transitioning to Practice.

Experiential learning in public health: evaluation of a health promotion campaign assessment for pharmacy students (2021)
Journal Article
White, S., Gifford, A., & Frisher, M. (2021). Experiential learning in public health: evaluation of a health promotion campaign assessment for pharmacy students. Pharmacy Education, 21(1), 56 - 64. https://doi.org/10.46542/pe.2021.211.5664

Description: Students in small groups designed, delivered and evaluated real-life health promotion campaigns in the local community. A peer assessed component was included from the fifth cohort onwards. Evaluation: Six successive cohorts of pharmacy... Read More about Experiential learning in public health: evaluation of a health promotion campaign assessment for pharmacy students.

Pharmacy graduates' perceived impact of long-term undergraduate use of an ethical decision-support tool on their early practice. (2021)
Journal Article
White, S., Allinson, M., & Black, P. (2021). Pharmacy graduates' perceived impact of long-term undergraduate use of an ethical decision-support tool on their early practice. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 13(7), 760 - 769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2021.03.001

INTRODUCTION: Values-based practice is an important concept within healthcare decision-making that sits alongside evidence-based practice. Values Exchange (Vx) (http://www.vxcommunity.com) is an online tool that supports the development of ethical an... Read More about Pharmacy graduates' perceived impact of long-term undergraduate use of an ethical decision-support tool on their early practice..

Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint) (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2020). Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(11), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.2196/17146

Background:
Virtual patients are interactive computer-based simulations that are being increasingly used in modern health care education. They have been identified as tools that can provide experiential learning and assessment in a standardized and... Read More about Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint).

Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2020). Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(11), Article e17146. https://doi.org/10.2196/17146

Background: Virtual patients are interactive computer-based simulations which are being increasingly used in modern healthcare education. They have been identified as tools that can provide experiential learning and assessment in a standardised and s... Read More about Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review.

Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (2020)
Journal Article
Slater, N., White, S., & Frisher, M. (2020). Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). BMJ Open, 10(9), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034346

OBJECTIVES: Many central nervous system (CNS) medications are considered potentially inappropriate for prescribing in older people; however, these medications are common in polypharmacy (=5 medicines) regimens. This paper aims to determine the preval... Read More about Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).

Actual vs. Perceived Competency Development-How Can Virtual Patients Impact Pharmacist Pre-Registration Training? (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2020). Actual vs. Perceived Competency Development-How Can Virtual Patients Impact Pharmacist Pre-Registration Training?. Pharmacy, 8(3), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030138

Virtual patients are an active learning pedagogical tool that simulate clinical scenarios. There is an established disparity in pre-registration examination pass rates depending on whether individuals complete their training in a community or hospita... Read More about Actual vs. Perceived Competency Development-How Can Virtual Patients Impact Pharmacist Pre-Registration Training?.

Virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists: development and proof of concept (2019)
Journal Article
White. (2019). Virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists: development and proof of concept. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 167-168. 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.

Evaluation of a new patient consultation initiative in community pharmacy for ear, nose and throat and eye conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Hall, G., Cork, T., White, S., Berry, H., & Smith, L. (2019). Evaluation of a new patient consultation initiative in community pharmacy for ear, nose and throat and eye conditions. BMC Health Services Research, 19, Article 285. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4125-y

Background
Community pharmacy Common Ailments Services can ease the considerable workload pressures on primary and secondary care services. However, evidence is needed to determine whether there are benefits of extending such services beyond their t... Read More about Evaluation of a new patient consultation initiative in community pharmacy for ear, nose and throat and eye conditions.

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..

A virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists-development and proof of concept (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Richardson, C., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2018, December). A virtual patient educational programme to teach counselling to clinical pharmacists-development and proof of concept. Poster presented at Prescribing and Research in Medicines Management (UK & Ireland) Annual Conference 2018, NCVO, Society Building, London, UK

Conference abstract, presented at Prescribing and Research in Medicines Management (UK & Ireland) Annual Conference 2018, NCVO, Society Building, London, UK, 14th December 2018: ‘Person-centred Care in the Digital Age: Nudge, Nudge, Tweet, Tweet’

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..

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)..

An evaluation of paracetamol and ibuprofen prescribing at three high-spend GP practices in Sandwell and West Birmingham: A prescribing analysis study (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Clayton, R., Vadher, N., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2018, January). An evaluation of paracetamol and ibuprofen prescribing at three high-spend GP practices in Sandwell and West Birmingham: A prescribing analysis study. Presented at ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018, NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, LONDON, UK

Background
Paracetamol and ibuprofen are readily available without prescription for relief of pain and pyrexia caused by minor, self-limiting conditions. This study was part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group’s approach to... Read More about An evaluation of paracetamol and ibuprofen prescribing at three high-spend GP practices in Sandwell and West Birmingham: A prescribing analysis study.

An evaluation of the impact of paliperidone and aripiprazole long acting injections on hospital admissions and occupied bed days (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Campbell, A., Awoniyi, O., Aslett, N., Azar, M., Gunnell, K., White, S., …Wing Yee, W. (2018, January). An evaluation of the impact of paliperidone and aripiprazole long acting injections on hospital admissions and occupied bed days. Presented at Prescribing and Research in Medicines Management (UK & Ireland), Annual Conference 2018, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London

Conference abstract.

Evaluation of a pharmacist-led diabetes educational outreach programme (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hin Lai, U., Patel, B., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2018, January). Evaluation of a pharmacist-led diabetes educational outreach programme. Presented at Prescribing and Research in Medicines Management (UK & Ireland), Annual Conference 2018, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London

Background
Independent Monitoring of Prescribing Analysis Cost Trends (IMPACT) campaigns, also known as educational outreach programmes, involve pharmacists providing training programmes in GP surgeries on prescribing for particular clinical issues... Read More about Evaluation of a pharmacist-led diabetes educational outreach programme.