All Outputs (5)

Prescribing paradigms: Understanding general practitioner inclinations towards medical and social prescribing (2024)
Journal Article

General practitioners (GPs) face complex decisions when choosing between prescribing medication or referring patients to social prescriptions. Increasing awareness of overprescribing and the risks of polypharmacy are a key driver of patient-centred p... Read More about Prescribing paradigms: Understanding general practitioner inclinations towards medical and social prescribing.

Household disposal of pharmaceuticals: Attitudes and risk perception in a UK sample (2022)
Journal Article

Pharmaceuticals can enter the environment through disposal in toilets, sinks and general waste. In the UK, household medicines are correctly disposed of by returning them to a pharmacy. This study examined household patterns of medicine waste, storag... Read More about Household disposal of pharmaceuticals: Attitudes and risk perception in a UK sample.

Diagnosing down-the-drain disposal of unused pharmaceuticals at a river catchment level: Unrecognized sources of environmental contamination that require nontechnological solutions (2021)
Journal Article

Down-the-drain disposal of pharmaceuticals remains an overlooked and unrecognized source of environmental contamination that requires nontechnological “at-source” solutions. Monitoring of 31 pharmaceuticals over 7 days in five wastewater treatment pl... Read More about Diagnosing down-the-drain disposal of unused pharmaceuticals at a river catchment level: Unrecognized sources of environmental contamination that require nontechnological solutions.

Social prescribing pilot evaluation
Report

Social prescribing (SP) is a means of enabling GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services (Public Health England, 2019). Patients often
present to GPs with social issues that are not p... Read More about Social prescribing pilot evaluation.

Emergency general surgery – A review of acute trusts in the South West
Report

As a service, Emergency General Surgery (EGS) represents the largest number of surgical admissions in UK hospitals (1) and accounts for a high number of complications, resulting in long periods of care and a high number of fatalities. It is nationall... Read More about Emergency general surgery – A review of acute trusts in the South West.