The Research for Professional Practice, Patients and Communities has a wide range of expertise from pharmacy practice, allied health professions and nursing and midwifery. The group is focused on obtaining the optimal health benefit from medicines and health care approaches. The team is working on the needs and behaviours of patients in order to improve patient outcome through optimal approaches including use of medicines and non-pharmaceutical approaches including appropriate health and social care. We also provide support to primary and secondary healthcare providers with developing robust methods of service evaluation and with regard to promoting new care services.
Our vision for taking forward practice research takes account of national and local health policy and the drivers that are currently affecting the developing roles of pharmacy, nursing and healthcare staff.
Linking cutting edge laboratory research with the day-to-day professional practice of pharmacy, we align our applied research approach with policy agendas aimed at improving the quality of pharmacy practice.
We offer consultancy in collaboration with our academic colleagues in social care, on the safety of storage and administration of medicines and delivery of care in care homes.