Publications

Current Projects listed alphabetically

axSpA

• The economic cost of delayed diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis in the UK Stephanie Howard Wilsher, PhD, Oyewumi Afolabi  Mayur Mishra, Georgios Xydopoulos, PhD  Fernando Zanghelini, Professor Richard Fordham  - NASS, The University of East Anglia, Health Economics Consulting

• Women wait longer for a diagnosis and have a significantly worse experience of healthcare than men - NASS

D-MED

• Patient information on reviewing medicines leaflet, De-intensifying Medications flowchart Leicester Diabetes Centre

FAMCAT2 

• Better care for major health conditions. Cardiovascular disease NHS Long Term Plan. Chapter 3: Further progress on care quality and outcomes 3.68

• Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Implementing a systems approach to detection and management  Public Health England guidance (opens pdf)

• Electronic health record-based facilitation of familial hypercholesterolaemia detection. Sensitivity of different algorithms in genetically confirmed patients Niekbachsh Mohammadnia, Ralph K Akyea, Nadeem Qureshi, Willem A Bax, Jan H Cornel; European Heart Journal – Digital Health 2022

• Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Algorithms for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Primary Care Jones, M.; Akyea, R.K.; Payne, K.; Humphries, S.E.; Abdul-Hamid, H.; Weng, S.; Qureshi, N.; Journal of Personlised Medicine 2022, 12, 330.

• Comparing the performance of the novel FAMCAT algorithms and established case-finding criteria for FH in primary care  Ralph K Akyea, Nadeem Qureshi, Joe Kai, Simon de Lusignan, Julian Sherlock, Christopher McGee and Stephen Weng; BJGP Open 2021

• Case-finding and genetic testing for FH in primary care Nadeem Qureshi, Ralph Kwame Akyea, Brittany Dutton, Steve E Humphries, Hasidah Abdul Hamid, Laura Condon, Stephen F Weng, Joe Kai; BMJ Journals Heart Volume 107, Issue 24

• Evaluating a clinical tool (FAMCAT) for identifying FH in primary care: a retrospective cohort study Ralph K Akyea, Nadeem Qureshi, Joe Kai, Simon de Lusignan, Julian Sherlock, Christopher McGee and Stephen Weng; BJGP Open 2020

• Detection of FH: external validation of the FAMCAT clinical case-finding algorithm to identify patients in primary care Stephen Weng, PhD; Prof Joe Kai, MD; Ralph Akyea, MPH; Prof Nadeem Qureshi, DM; The Lancet Volume 4, issue 5, E256-E264, May 01 2019

MND

• Identifying key signs of motor neurone disease in primary care: a nested case–control study using the QResearch database Xue W Mei, Judith Burchardt, Tom A Ranger, Christopher J McDermott, Aleksandar Radunovic, Carol Coupland, Julia Hippisley-Cox BMJ Open Volume 12 Issue 6 

• A Systematic Review of the Incidence and Prevalence of Long-Term Neurological Conditions in the UK Hoppitt T et al.  Neuroepidemiology. 2011; 36(1):19–28. 
• Painless, progressive weakness - Could this be Motor Neurone Disease? (Red flag tool pdf )  MNDA and RCGP
• A guide for GPs and primary care teams MND and RCGP

National Vaccination Uptake Programmes

• Trends and clinical characteristics of Covid-19 vaccine recipients: a federated analysis of 57.9 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY Helen J Curtiset al and (The OpenSAFELY Collaborative); British Journal of General Practice 2022; 72 (714): e51-e62. DOI: 

PINCER

• A pharmacist-led informatin technology intervention for medication errors (PINCER): a multicentre, cluster randomised, controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis  Anthony J Avery, Sarah Rodgers, Judith A Cantrill, Sarah Armstrong, Kathrin Cresswell, Martin Eden, Rachel A Elliott, Rachel Howard, Denise Kendrick, Caroline J Morris, Robin J Prescott, Glen Swanwick, Matthew Franklin, Koen Putman, Matthew Boyd, Aziz Sheikh; The Lancet 2012:379 1310-19

• Cost Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention for Reducing Rates of Clinically Important Errors in Medicines Management in General Practices (PINCER); Rachel A. Elliott, Koen D. Putman, Matthew Franklin, Lieven Annemans, Nick Verhaeghe, Martin Eden, Jasdeep Hayre, Sarah Rodgers, Aziz Sheikh, Anthony J. Avery PharmacoEconomics DOI 10.1007/s40273-014-0148-8 

• The PINCER initiative: reducing medication errors in primary care; Joy Ogden; Prescriber 21 May 2020 

• Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: a qualitative study Azwa Shamsuddin, Mark Jeffries, Aziz Sheikh, Libby Laing, Nde-Eshimuni Salema, Anthony J Avery, Antony Chuter, Justin Waring and Richard N Keers; BJGP Open 2021; 5 (5): BJGPO.2021.0109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0109

• Scaling-up a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) to reduce hazardous prescribing in general practices: Multiple interrupted time series study Sarah Rodgers, Amelia C. Taylor, Stephen A. Roberts, Thomas Allen, Darren M. Ashcroft, James Barrett, Matthew J. Boyd, Rachel A. Elliott, Kamlesh Khunti, Aziz Sheikh, Despina Laparidou, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Anthony J. Avery;  PLOS Medicine Version 2, 16/11/2022 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004133

PINCER National Rollout

• PINCER National Rollout Progress Report to NHS England and the AHSN Network, Extended Executive Summary Dr Sarah Rodgers, July 2020, PRIMIS

• PINCER National Rollout Progress Report to NHS England and the AHSN Network Dr Sarah Rodgers, July 2020, PRIMIS

SPACE

• Asthma inhalers and the environment patient decision aid, NICE, British Thoracic Society and Healthcare Improvement Scotland

• Why asthma still kills. The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD), Dr Mark L Levy et al, Royal College of Physicians, HQIP et al 

Completed projects listed alphabetically

Embedding study - Leicester Diabetes Centre 

• The impact of an intervention to increase uptake to structured self-management education for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care (the embedding package), compared to usual care, on glycaemic control: study protocol for a mixed methods study incorporating a wait-list cluster randomised controlled trial Melanie J Davies et al, BMC Fam Pract 2019 Nov 7;20(1):152. doi: 10.1186/s12875-019-1038-0.

FLU-CAT

• Letter from Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty to GPs to support implementation of FLU-CAT, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, Department of Health and Social Care, NIHR 
• Notice under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI), on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care