Systems of Healthcare Delivery

Professor Carmel Hughes

Dr Heather Barry

Research activities are focused on improving systems of patient care, for example, the implementation of pharmacy-run medicines management clinics, the use of medicines optimisation approaches through complex interventions, and new models of primary care delivery.

Quality of Care in Vulnerable Populations 

Professor Carmel Hughes

Dr Carole Parsons

Dr Heather Barry

Dr Yingfen Hsia

Research activities are focused on the nursing and residential home setting, but also extend to primary care, particularly in general practice and community pharmacy, and secondary care and hospice settings. Interventional, cross-sectional, epidemiological and qualitative work focus on the appropriateness of prescribing in chronic disease and polypharmacy, and evaluation of patterns of prescribing in care home residents with dementia as they approach end of life.

Other activities are focused on utilising large national and global databases to evaluate medication and vaccine usage among neonates, children and adolescents affected by both communicable and non-communicable diseases. This work aims to advance our understanding of health outcomes from infancy through young adulthood.

Global Health-Antimicrobial Resistance

Dr Yingfen Hsia

Professor Carmel Hughes

Research activities are centred on developing surveillance systems to monitor antibiotic use in both primary and secondary care settings. This involves the development and application of statistical and machine learning algorithms to estimate the burden of antimicrobial resistance across high, middle, and low-income countries.