Darren Ashcroft

Reducing risk and managing dispensing errors

Pharmacy teams should understand how to minimise the risk and likelihood of dispensing errors, including methods that can be used to evaluate existing processes, as well as how to deal with errors if they happen.…

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract: (2) Drivers, barriers and approaches to commissioning

This article aims to identify factors which primary care trusts consider to be barriers and drivers to the commissioning of services from community pharmacies.…

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract: (3) Uptake of enhanced services

This article aims to identify (i) the enhanced services primary care trusts had commissioned, (ii) whether the service had been commissioned before the start of the new community pharmacy contract, (iii) the contractual option used, (iv) the number of community pharmacies providing the service and (…

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract: (4) Governance and performance management

This article aims to identify and describe governance and performance management activity in primary care trusts in England relating to the provision of pharmaceutical services.…

Reporting, reflecting on and learning from adverse events in community pharmacy: development and evaluation of an incident reporting form

This study aims to develop and evaluate an incident reporting form for the collection of information on patient safety incidents that occur in community pharmacies.…

Role and uptake of local pharmaceutical services contracts in commissioning community pharmacy services

This article aims to describe the early development and uptake of local pharmaceutical services and to investigate the nature of the contracts developed by the first-wave pilots.…

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract: (1) Pharmaceutical needs assessments and uptake of new pharmacy contracts

This article aims to identify and describe (i) pharmaceutical needs assessment activity and (ii) the awarding of new NHS community pharmacy contracts in primary care trusts in England.…