Vicky Speed
Clinical informatician
Vicky is a qualified pharmacist working at the Bennett Institute as a clinical informatician. Following a Master of Pharmacy degree from the University of Manchester she has worked as a clinical pharmacist in a number of NHS hospital trusts, and since 2014, has specialised in anticoagulation. She completed her PhD an the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s College London, which involved population pharmacokinetic modelling and a national multicentre registry to investigate the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban in daily practice. She currently works as an anticoagulation pharmacist at King’s College Hospital, London alongside the Bennett Institute role.
Papers by Vicky Speed
- Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: cohort study of 20 million patients in OpenSAFELY-TPP
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
- Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators in OpenSAFELY
- 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
- DMARD monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog posts by Vicky Speed
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY analysis. Part 2: Results
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY analysis. Part 1: Analysis Design
- Spot the difference. Part 2: Analytic Choices
- Spot the difference. Part 1: Source Datasets
- What makes a good OpenPrescribing measure?