Andrew is a Clinical Informatician at the Bennett Institute. He also works as a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist for Sunderland CCG; applying strategic interventions to improve the quality and consistency of NHS services. He holds an MSc in Psychology from Northumbria University and is currently working towards an MSc in Computer Science. He is interested in bridging gaps between specialist areas; leveraging cross-discipline knowledge to enhance research and services.
Papers by Andrew Brown
- Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England
- Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England
- Incidence and treatment of group A streptococcal infections during covid-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism
- The impact of COVID-19 on azathioprine, leflunomide and methotrexate monitoring, and factors associated with change in monitoring rate
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
- Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
- First dose COVID-19 vaccine coverage amongst adolescents and children in England
Blog posts by Andrew Brown
- OpenPrescribing Autumn 2024 Newsletter
- DMARD monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Improvement Radar: A new OpenPrescribing tool to identify best practice
- NHS England Medicines Optimisation Opportunities - A new dashboard on OpenPrescribing
- Generating data on the NHS England Core20PLUS5 inequality groups using OpenSAFELY in GP records