Helping patients decide: Aberdeen team to develop an innovative decision-aid tool Pharmacy Research UK (PRUK) is delighted to announce the second recipient of our 2017 project grants as part of our £200k investment in major grants. Professor Mandy Ryan and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen has been awarded £100k to develop a person-centred discrete choice […]
Pharmacy Research UK Announces First Project Grant Recipient
Use of patient-held information about medication As part of Pharmacy Research UK (PRUK)’s £200k investment in major project grants, we are delighted to announce first recipient of our 2017 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) […]
Researchfish 2017 Submission Round
This year, the 2017 Researchfish submission round launches on Monday 7th August and all PRUK funded researchers will be contacted very soon. The deadline to submit the project information is Friday 13th October. All researchers who have been funded by PRUK are required to submit information against their Researchfish portfolios on an annual basis. […]
MEMORABLE Interviews
In June this year, the BBC ran a rare feature on pharmacy research and had an excellent short segment documenting the MEMORABLE project led by Dr Ian Maidment. Dr Maidment is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences, and a former beneficiary of Pharmacy Research UK’s project grants. […]
HSRPP 2018 Call for Abstracts
The 2018 Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice (HSRPP) conference will be hosted by Newcastle University on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th April. The HSRPP conference presents a unique opportunity for researchers within health service and pharmacy practice research to network with each other and also provides a platform for peers to give presentations on […]
PRUK funded research published in the journal Pharmacy 2017
We are delighted to announce that PRUK funded research from Dr Wing Man Lau from the University of Reading has been published in the journal Pharmacy 2017, 5(3), 41; doi: 10.3390/pharmacy5030041 The study examines the relationship between community pharmacists’ knowledge, attitudes to information provision and self-reported counselling behaviours in relation to topical corticosteroids and adjunct therapy in […]
Vacancy: Communications and Fundraising Assistant
Communications and Fundraising Assistant Pharmacy Research UK Contract type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract Salary: £22,000 per annum + excellent benefits Location: London Pharmacy Research UK is the principal research charity supporting pharmacists and pharmacy to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients and the public. The PRUK organisation is hosted by the Royal […]
PRUK Newsletter July 2017
PRUK July e-newsletter is published today, with details of HSRPP 2018, being profiled in the AMRC Charity Impact report, published research by PRUK researchers, a pharmacy research project on BBC Breakfast, the expansion of our SAP, research news and events and an inspiring blog by Dr Frances Notman on her journey to getting her PhD.
PRUK delighted to be featured in AMRC’s research impact report
The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) has just published their annual report on research impact and PRUK are delighted to be one of the featured charities, highlighting the important work that the charity does. The AMRC is a membership organisation of the leading medical and health research charities in the UK. The AMRC has […]
Global analysis of strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Congratulations to Funke Adeniji from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who has just had her research published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. The research seeks to analyse the effectiveness of key policies and strategies in tackling antimicrobial resistance globally, and identify where there are gaps. Funke’s work was funded by […]
