Background Heart failure is an ever-growing contributor to morbidity and mortality in the
ageing population. Medication adherence rates among the HF population vary widely in the …

Objective To explore the attitudes and perceptions of health professionals towards management
of hypothyroidism that contributes to the suboptimal treatment of hypothyroidism in …

Purpose Around half of prescribed medications for long‐term conditions are not taken as
directed. Automated two‐way digital communication, such as text messaging and interactive …

Background Suboptimal thyroid hormone replacement is common in patients with hypothyroidism
and the behavioural factors underlying this are poorly understood. Aim To explore the …

Background There is increasing interest in an enhanced role for community pharmacy (CP)
in facilitating care for people with long-term conditions (LTCs). It is important to understand …

Background and purpose The aim of this study was to design and evaluate the introduction
of a sustainable and feasible structure of placements in general practice for third-year …

Objectives To explore barriers and facilitators to prescribing error reporting across primary
care. Design Qualitative semi-structured face-to-face and telephone interviews were …

Prescribing errors can cause avoidable harm to patients. Most prescriptions originate in primary
care, where medications tend to be self-administered and errors have the most potential …

Objectives There is widespread use of unlicensed medicines within primary and secondary
care but little information is available around how these medicines are used. This analysis …

A special unlicensed medicine is one that is manufactured without a marketing authorisation
(MA) from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). An MA (or …