Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis.

Background: Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them.

Setting And Sample: UK primary care.

Relationship between deprivation, and the uptake and use of the common ailments service in community pharmacies in Wales.

Objectives: Since 2013 community pharmacies in Wales have been commissioned to provide a common ailments service (CAS), providing pharmacy medicine without charge to patients. In the first review of national pharmacy data, this study aimed to describe the relationship between provision of CAS and deprivation.

Methods: A retrospective observational study, using CAS claims data from April 2022 to March 2023 collected as part of routine service delivery.

Cross-sectional survey of patients' need for information and support with medicines after discharge from hospital.

Background: Most patients experience changes to prescribed medicines during a hospital stay. Ensuring they understand such changes is important for preventing adverse events post-discharge and optimising patient understanding. However, little work has explored the information that patients receive about medicines or their perceived needs for information and support after discharge.

A cross-sectional study using freedom of information requests to evaluate variation in local authority commissioning of community pharmacy public health services in England.

Objectives: This study aims to provide a national picture of the extent and nature of public health services commissioned by local authorities (LAs) from community pharmacies across England in financial year 2014/15.

Design: Cross-sectional survey of public health services commissioned in community pharmacies by LAs, gathered via freedom of information requests and documentary analysis.

Setting And Participants: All 152 LAs in England.