Richard Croker
Honorary Research Fellow
Richard is an honorary research fellow at the Bennett Institute, focusing on OpenPrescribing.net. He has worked as a pharmaceutical adviser for the NHS for over 20 years, and is currently also Deputy Director of Medicines Optimisation at NHS Devon. He has a BSc in Pharmacy from the University of Portsmouth, and an MSc in Health Informatics from Swansea University, where his dissertation centred on the validity of prescribing denominators. He also spends his time applying medicines optimisation principles to improving pathology services in the NHS.
Papers by Richard Croker
(PRE-PRINT) Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
(PRE-PRINT) The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
[PRE-PRINT] Data-driven identification of potentially successful intervention implementations: a proof of concept using five years of opioid prescribing data from over 7000 practices in England
Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
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
Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review
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
Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care.
Is Use of Homeopathy Associated With Poor Prescribing in English Primary Care? A Cross-Sectional Study
Optimising laboratory monitoring of chronic conditions in primary care: a quality improvement framework
Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data.
Measuring the Impact of an Open Web-Based Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: Cohort Study on NHS England Data
Why did some practices not implement new antibiotic prescribing guidelines on urinary tract infection? A cohort study and survey in NHS England primary care
Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998–2018: a retrospective database study
Six months on – NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its Low-Priority Initiative
Detecting Change in Comparison to Peers in NHS Prescribing Data: a Novel Application of Cumulative Sum Methodology
Pregabalin: what the patent litigation means for doctors and drug companies
The clinician impact and financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: a cohort study in English primary care
Trends and variation in prescribing of low-priority treatments identified by NHS England: a cross-sectional study and interactive data tool in English primary care
Trends, geographical variation and factors associated with prescribing of gluten-free foods in English primary care: a cross-sectional study
New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study
Blogs by Richard Croker
BNF to dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) map - now available
Four new measures available on OpenPrescribing.net (and four have been retired)
Recent improvements in OpenPrescribing.net measures
OpenPrescribing in the media - recent highlights
Additional Functions on Analyse page - multi-level searching and STP/NHS England regions
How can we improve the management of necessary changes in clinical practice?
