Richard Croker
BSc MSc
Honorary Research Fellow
Richard is an honorary research fellow in the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, focusing on the OpenPrescribing project.
He qualified as a pharmacist in 1996, and has worked as a pharmaceutical adviser for the NHS for over 20 years. He is currently also the Deputy Director for Medicines Optimisation at NHS Devon.
Richard has a BSc in Pharmacy from the University of Portsmouth, where his final year dissertation was on the use of computer-aided learning in stereochemistry, 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.
Key publications
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New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: Minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study
Journal article
Croker R. et al, (2018), BMJ Open, 8
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The clinician impact and financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: A cohort study in English primary care
Journal article
Croker R. et al, (2018), BMJ Open, 8
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Pregabalin: What the patent litigation means for doctors and drug companies
Journal article
Smyth D. et al, (2018), BMJ (Online), 361
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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
Journal article
Walker AJ. et al, (2018), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 111, 203 - 213
Recent publications
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Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
Preprint
Cunningham C. et al, (2023)
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The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
Preprint
Wood C. et al, (2023)
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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
Preprint
Hopcroft LEM. et al, (2023)
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Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
Journal article
Hulme WJ. et al, (2023), Annals of internal medicine, 176, 685 - 693
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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
Journal article
Fisher L. et al, (2023), BMJ Medicine, 2, e000392 - e000392