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Amelia (Amy) Taylor is a Research Fellow within Primary Health Care. She undertook her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences with Chemistry; incorporating a year in industry developing and testing medical filters. She has worked in the Pharmaceutical industry, developing asthma inhalers with experience of late phase development, dossier submission and MHRA and FDA inspections. She also has experience in Pharmaceutical services development whilst working for Boots.
She undertook her PhD in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham, gaining expertise in complex modeling of CPRD and HES data, especially patterns and trends in prescribing data and associated outcomes over time.
Her more recent work to Evaluate the PINCER prescribing safety intervention has developed this expertise to modeling data to evaluate an intervention with varying implementation dates. During this project, she has also gained experience of working with PRIMIS, the digital research service, legal teams, health economists and statisticians.
She has collaborated with teams at the Mayo Clinic and at the University of Adelaide to evaluate the PINCER indicators in their data sets. Amy is also an associate investigator on a success ful grant application for the BRIDGE project- Building Rural clinical care through Integrated Data-driven evidence for GEneralists in rural South Australia.
Amy is a member of the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safelty Research collaboration (GMPSRC): Optimising Patient Safety.
Amy is part of a successful team to evaluate the Pharmacy First service led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in partnership with experts at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, and Nottingham, funded by the NIHR.
Expertise Summary
Epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, database analysis, electronic health records, prescribing data, patient safety, intervention evaluation, service evaluation, primary care research, prescribing errors, medication errors, medicines optimisation.
Research Summary
Amy's current research focuses on patient safety in primary care.
Current research includes:
- Avoiding patient harm through the application of prescribing safety indicators in English general practices (acronym: PRoTeCT); NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research.
- NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration.
- NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme, Mixed-method impact and implementation evaluation of the "Pharmacy First" Services for management of common conditions (co-applicant)
- BRIDGE project- Building Rural clinical care through Integrated Data-driven evidence for GEneralists in rural South Australia.
Recent Publications
GLOVER, R. E., LALANI, M., SONNEX, K., ALLEN, T., ANDERSON, C., ASHIRU-OREDOPE, D., AVERY, A., COUPLAND, C., ELLIOTT, R., GOULDING, J., HIGGINS, H., JOHNSON, S., MACKENNA, B., MULLER-PEBODY, B., O'NEILL, S., PACHO, A., TAYLOR, A., THORNLEY, T. and MAYS, N., 2025. A mixed methods protocol for an impact and implementation evaluation of the Pharmacy First Services for management of common conditions in England Int J Pharm Pract. 33(2), 152-161 CAMACHO, ELIZABETH M, PENNER, LEONIE S, TAYLOR, AMY, GUTHRIE, BRUCE, AVERY, ANTHONY J, ASHCROFT, DARREN M, MORALES, DANIEL R, ROGERS, GABRIEL, CHUTER, ANTONY and ELLIOTT, RACHEL A, 2024. Estimating the economic effect of harm associated with high risk prescribing of oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in England: population based cohort and economic modelling study bmj. 386,
JOSEPH, R. M., KNAGGS, R. D., COUPLAND, C. A. C., TAYLOR, A., VINOGRADOVA, Y., BUTLER, D., GERRARD, L., WALDRAM, D., IYEN, B., AKYEA, R. K., ASHCROFT, D. M., AVERY, A. J. and JACK, R. H., 2023. Frequency and impact of medication reviews for people aged 65 years or above in UK primary care: an observational study using electronic health records BMC Geriatr. 23(1), 435