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PRUK funds research into health information transfer

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PRUK funds research into health information transfer

As part of Pharmacy Research UK (PRUK)’s £200k investment in major project grants, Professor Bryony Dean Franklin from UCL School of Pharmacy has been awarded nearly £93k to investigate the use of patient-held information about medication (PHIMed) to support medicines optimization over 18 months. 

The overall aim of the project is to identify how PHIMed is used in practice, barriers and facilitators to its use, and key features of PHIMed that support medicines optimisation, leading to development of an optimal PHIMed solution for testing in a future trial.  The research will involve collaboration with the UCL Interaction Centre and involves two lay partners as collaborators to ensure that patient and carer perspectives are embedded throughout. 

 

 

Professor Franklin, who is Professor of Medication Safety at the UCL School of Pharmacy and Director of the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, commented: “We know that when people move from one healthcare setting to another (such as from their own home to hospital), errors can occur in communication of information about their medicines.

"We also know that many patients want to be more active partners in their healthcare and that many use different types of PHIMed, both paper and electronic, to help them remember their current medicines. However, we do not know how PHIMed should best be used or what the most important features are. Discussions with patients and carers also suggest this is an important area. I am therefore absolutely delighted that PRUK are enabling us to do this research.” 

Dr Rachel Joynes, executive director at PRUK added: “We are delighted to fund Professor Franklin and her team at UCL. The quality of applications for these grants was extremely high and we are excited to fund this vitally important project. The risks of poor health information transfer are well known and we hope that this project will start to address some of those issues.”

For more detailed information on the project click here.  

 

 

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