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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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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
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Andrews CD. et al, (2024), BMC Medicine, 22
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Healthcare utilisation in people with long COVID: an OpenSAFELY cohort study
Journal article
Lin LY. et al, (2024), BMC Medicine, 22
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Risk of emergency hospital admission related to adverse events after antibiotic treatment in adults with a common infection: impact of COVID-19 and derivation and validation of risk prediction models
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Zhong X. et al, (2024), BMC Medicine, 22
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Ursodeoxycholic acid and severe COVID-19 outcomes in a cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform
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Costello RE. et al, (2024), Communications Medicine, 4
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The safety of antivirals and neutralising monoclonal antibodies used in prehospital treatment of Covid-19
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Bechman K. et al, (2024), Journal of Infection, 89