Service users opinions on independent prescribing pharmacists services
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The opinion of service users on the services of independent prescribing pharmacists
IRAS ID
257543
Contact name
Hana Morrissey
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Wolverhampton
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
-, -
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
The purpose of this study is to inform pharmacy postgraduate education providers about the service users’ opinions regarding pharmacists’ independent prescribing services through a series of surveys. The survey questions are directed at the service users’ opinions and perceptions about the pharmacists' independent prescribing competencies, whether they are equipped for the role they are taking in prescribing and what may be done to make things better.
The researcher will recruit only the pharmacists from all settings; the Independent prescribing pharmacists only, will then invite patients and doctors from the practice in which they work (the researcher will not know who the patients are at any stage of the study). The patients will be invited by the clinic reception to participate on arrival the day they are attending the clinic, if their appointment is with the independent prescriber that day, this ensures that no one will check the practice history to identify patients, their home address or phone numbers. Doctors will be invited by the pharmacist handing over the invitation letters and information sheets in person, without a follow up reminder.
The responses will bear a practice-specific same code; (for independent prescribing pharmacists, doctors and patient), which will reach the researcher with no names, no medical records or history information or other identifiers, online for analysis. The researcher receiving the data does not know which code refers to which practice, only that the feedback from the doctors, patients and pharmacist are all from one location.REC name
West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/WM/0007
Date of REC Opinion
21 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion