Brian MacKenna
Honorary Research Fellow Pharmacist
Brian is a pharmacist in the NHS England Medicines and Diagnostics Policy Unit and is working on the Open Prescribing project to facilitate improvements in patient care through the better use of medicines data. Brian was previously Clinical Fellow to the English Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Dr. Keith Ridge, and Deputy Head of Medicines Optimisation at Islington Clinical Commissioning Group. Brian previously worked in a variety of hospitals, in London and Australia. Brian has also completed his Masters in Public Health at King’s College and has a specialist interest in pharmacomedy.
Papers by Brian MacKenna
Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review
Impact of Electronic Health Record Interface Design on Unsafe Prescribing of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus, and Diltiazem: Cohort Study in English National Health Service Primary Care
Suboptimal prescribing behaviour associated with clinical software design features: a retrospective cohort study in English NHS primary care
(PRE-PRINT) OpenSAFELY: Do adults prescribed Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an increased risk of death from COVID-19?
Prescription of suboptimal statin treatment regimens: a retrospective cohort study of trends and variation in English primary care
The NHS deserves better use of hospital medicines data
Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care.
Six months on – NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its Low-Priority Initiative
Blogs by Brian MacKenna
Difference between BNF, dm+d and SNOMED CT codes
NHS Dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d): primary care prescribing of "hospital only" medicines
How I use OpenPrescribing in my practice as a GP
Your Organisation's OpenPrescribing Custom Email Alerts
Impact of COVID-19 on prescribing in English general practice: March 2020
What are the most commonly prescribed medicines? Top 10 prescribed medicines in NHS England primary care for 2019
Changes to NHS medicines data: a rapid analysis from the Bennett Institute
NHS England Investment and Impact Fund — A new dashboard on OpenPrescribing
Primary Care Networks (PCN) Dashboards — A new prescribing dashboard on OpenPrescribing
New Measure: Seven Day Prescribing for Long-term Conditions
Zuclopenthixol Acetate: a new kind of measure on OpenPrescribing
NHS dm+d browser — A New Feature on OpenPrescribing
What is the dm+d? The NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices
Custom Organisation Groupings: OpenPrescribing Plan for Organisations like Primary Care Networks
All England Alerts : A New Feature on OpenPrescribing
Openness and Transparency: why is openness and transparency important for good data analysis and how does OpenPrescribing embody it?
NHS price concessions cost charities and local authorities an additional £5.6 million last year
NHS Regional and STP Dashboards — A new Feature on OpenPrescribing
Building new prescribing measures - we need your help
NHS Price Concession Alerts — A new feature on OpenPrescribing
Ghost Branded Generics: A new dashboard on OpenPrescribing
Price Concessions Calculator — A New Feature on OpenPrescribing
