Research Groups
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.
Recent publications
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antidepressant prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism: an interrupted time series analysis in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
Journal article
Cunningham C. et al, (2025), BMJ mental health, 28
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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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Data-Driven Identification of Potentially Successful Intervention Implementations Using 5 Years of Opioid Prescribing Data: Retrospective Database Study.
Journal article
Hopcroft LE. et al, (2024), JMIR Public Health Surveill, 10
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism: An interrupted time-series analysis in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
Preprint
Cunningham C. et al, (2024)
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Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: cohort study of 20 million patients in OpenSAFELY-TPP
Preprint
Schaffer A. et al, (2024)