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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Why did some practices not implement new antibiotic prescribing guidelines on urinary tract infection? A cohort study and survey in NHS England primary care.
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Croker R. et al, (2018), J Antimicrob Chemother
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Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998-2018: a retrospective database study.
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Curtis HJ. et al, (2018), Lancet Psychiatry
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Six months on: NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its low-priority initiative.
Journal article
Walker AJ. et al, (2018), J R Soc Med
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Detecting change in comparison to peers in NHS prescribing data: a novel application of cumulative sum methodology
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Walker AJ. et al, (2018), BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18
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Why did some practices not implement new antibiotic prescribing guidelines on urinary tract infection? A cohort study and survey in NHS England primary care
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Croker R. et al, (2018)