Richard Croker
BSc MSc
Honorary Research Fellow
Richard is an honorary research fellow in the EBM DataLab team, focusing on the OpenPrescribing project.
He qualified as a pharmacist in 1996, and has worked as a pharmaceutical adviser for the NHS for 15 years. He is currently also the Head of Medicines Optimisation for Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG.
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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Inhaled corticosteroid use and risk COVID-19 related death among 966,461 patients with COPD or asthma: an OpenSAFELY analysis
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The OpenSAFELY Collaborative None. et al, (2020)
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Impact Of Electronic Health Record Interface Design On Unsafe Prescribing Of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus and Diltiazem: A Cohort Study In English NHS Primary Care (Preprint)
Journal article
MacKenna B. et al, (2019)
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Impact Of Electronic Health Record Interface Design On Unsafe Prescribing Of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus and Diltiazem: A Cohort Study In English NHS Primary Care
Other
MacKenna B. et al, (2019)
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Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care.
Other
MacKenna B. et al, (2019)
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Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data
Journal article
Goldacre B. et al, (2019), BMJ Open, 9