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Brian MacKenna
Brian is Director of NHS Service Analytics at the Bennett Institute. He also works for NHS England as a pharmacist adviser and primary care medicines data clinical lead. 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 as a pharmacist in a variety of hospitals, in London and Australia. He has also completed his Masters in Public Health at King’s College.
Recent publications
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Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net.
Journal article
Curtis HJ. et al, (2025), BMC Health Serv Res, 25
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Vitamin B12 prescribing from 2015 to 2024 in English general practice: an observational study to investigate the switch from injections to tablets
Journal article
Tank N. et al, (2025), BMJ Open, 15
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Trends and variation in andexanet alfa for the reversal of direct oral anticoagulants in NHS Trusts in England
Preprint
Fisher L. et al, (2025)
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Using Laboratory Test Results for Surveillance During a New Outbreak of Acute Hepatitis in 3-Week- to 5-Year-Old Children in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Curaçao: Observational Cohort Study.
Journal article
Swets MC. et al, (2024), JMIR Public Health Surveill, 10
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Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
Journal article
Andrews CD. et al, (2024), BMC Medicine, 22