Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
I am an academic pharmacist and qualitative behavioural scientist. My research primarily focusses on healthcare practitioner and patient behaviour change to facilitate routine proactive deprescribing of medicines with more risks than benefits. I led the development of the first practitioner behaviour change intervention for deprescribing in the hospital setting within my PhD. The intervention has since received funding to be tested in the largest definitive hospital deprescribing trial in the world.
My deprescribing work has led me to be one of the founding members of the Northern European Researchers in Deprescribing (NERD) network, where my primary role is to build international research capacity both within Europe and between the network and countries globally.
I continue to practice at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Current research projects
Learning from proactive deprescribing experiences within the Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescribing Study to develop national policy regarding deprescribing in care homes for older people (Co-chief Investigator) - National Institute for Health Research Research Translating Research Into Practice (2021-2022)
Improving the quality and experience of care for patients prescribed medicines with a risk of dependence or withdrawal (Co-investigator) - National Institute for Health Research Research for Patient Benefit (2021-2022)
CompreHensive geriAtRician-led MEdication Review (CHARMER) (Co-investigator and Programme Manager) – National Institute for Health Research Programme Grant for Applied Research (2020-2025)
Generating the evidence for safely and acceptably switching people with Parkinson’s to liquid formulations (Chief Investigator) – EIRA Research and Development Grant (2020-2021)
Research group
Bethany Atkins - Senior Research Associate
Jeanette Blacklock - Senior Research Associate
Dr Linda Birt - Senior Research Associate
Caroline Smith – Research Administrator
Mohammed Alharthi - PhD student (with Professor David Wright)
Click here for current PhD opportunities. But feel free to email me to discuss projects outside these areas and alternative sources of funding.
Administrative Posts
Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Research Ethics Committe
Deputy course director of the MSc in Pharmacy Practice
Network
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CompreHensive geriAtRician-led MEdication Review (CHARMER)
Bhattacharya, D., Clark, A., Scott, S., Wright, D., Clark, A., Colles, A., Goodall, K., Hojas Garcia, E., Pond, M., Sims, E., Stirling, S., Swart, A. M. & Turner, D.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/09/20 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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Learning from proactive deprescribing experiences within the Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescribing Study to develop national policy regarding deprescribing in care homes for older people
Wright, D., Scott, S., Birt, L. & Blacklock, J.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/04/21 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Generating the evidence for safely and acceptably switching people with Parkinson’s to liquid formulations
15/06/20 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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Generating the evidence for safely and acceptably switching people with Parkinson’s to liquid formulations
15/06/20 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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A practitioner behaviour change intervention for deprescribing in the hospital setting
Scott, S., May, H., Patel, M., Wright, D. J. & Bhattacharya, D., Mar 2021, In: Age and Ageing. 50, 2, p. 581–586 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Development of a hospital Deprescribing Implementation Framework: A focus group study with geriatricians and Pharmacists
Scott, S., Twigg, M., Clark, A., Farrow, C., May, H., Patel, M., Taylor, J., Wright, D. & Bhattacharya, D., Jan 2020, In: Age and Ageing. 49, 1, p. 102-110 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cluster randomised control trial protocol for estimating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates compared to usual practice (FLUCARE)
Patel, A., Sims, E., Blacklock, J., Birt, L., Bion, V., Clark, A., Griffiths, A., Guillard, C., Hammond, A., Holland, R., Jones, A., Jones, L., Katangwe-Chigamba, T., Pitcher, J., Ruby, P., Scott, S., Wagner, A. P., Ahmed, S., Baqir, W., Cook, L. & 2 others, , 9 Dec 2022, In: Trials. 23, 989.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review protocol
Greene, L., Aryankhesal, A., Megson, M., Blake, J., Wong, G., Briscoe, S., Hilton, A., Killett, A., Reeve, J., Allan, L., Ballard, C., Broomfield, N., van Horik, J., Khondoker, M., Lazar, A., Litherland, R., Livingston, G., Maidment, I., Medina-Lara, A., Rook, G. & 3 others, , 18 Nov 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, 11, e067424.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Barriers and facilitators to pharmacists integrating into the ward-based multidisciplinary team: A systematic review and meta-synthesis
Hatton, K., Bhattacharya, D., Scott, S. & Wright, D., Nov 2021, In: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 17, 11, p. 1923-1936 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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