Commissioned reports

2024

Evaluation of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) for community pharmacy 2017-2021

• Full report (PDF)

Research on the standards for the initial education and training of pharmacy technicians. Report to GPhC

• Full report (General Pharmaceutical Council)

2023

Evaluation of Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway: Final report

• Full report (PDF)

2022

Evaluation of cultural and behavioural barriers and motivations in the uptake of Community Pharmacist Consultation Service

• Full report (PDF, 3MB)

2021

Evaluation of the Pharmacy Integration Fund Learning Pathways

• Executive summary: main PhIF evaluation
• Mid-length report (integrated findings, discussion, recommendations)
• Full report: main PhIF evaluation

Evaluation of the Pre-registration Pharmacists in General Practice Project

• Executive summary: pre-registration evaluation
• Full report: pre-registration evaluation

2020

Foundation Pharmacist Vocational Training Scheme: General practice rotation evaluation 

• Executive summary (PDF, 1.37 MB)
• Full report (PDF, 1.82 MB)

2019

Pharmacy learner engagement: Understanding views on education and training

• Executive summary (PDF, 507 KB)
• Full report (PDF, 6.56 MB)

Scoping the integration of simulation-based education in the delivery of healthcare education programmes delivered within the north of England

• Executive summary (PDF, 672 KB)
• Full report (PDF, 1.87 MB)

2018

Evaluation of the Greater Manchester Community Pharmacy Care Plan

• Full report (PDF, 1.2 MB)

2017

Evaluation of non-medical prescribing in primary care and mental health services in NW England

• Executive summary (PDF, 83.3 KB)
• Full report (PDF, 903 KB)

2015

Investigating the organisational factors associated with variation in clinical productivity in community pharmacies

• Full report available on the NIHR website

2013

Managing workplace pressures to enhance safer practice in community pharmacy: a scoping study

• Executive summary (PDF, 221 KB)
• Full report (PDF, 1.8 MB)

2014

Supervision in community pharmacy

• Executive summary (PDF, 769 KB)
• Full report (PDF, 2.82 MB)

2010

Patient-centred professionalism among newly-registered pharmacists (1-2 years)

• Full report (PDF, 575 KB)

2009

Mapping the Teaching and Assessment of Professionalism in Pharmacy Education and Exploring its Role in the Transfer to Practice

• Full report (PDF, 494 KB)

A longitudinal cohort study of pharmacy careers: Work, employment and the early careers of cohort pharmacists

• Full report (PDF, 618 KB)

2007

A longitudinal cohort study of pharmacy careers: From pharmacy education into pre-registration training

• Full report (PDF, 403KB)