Pharmacy-Based Sexual Health Services in the UK
I joined the Unit of Academic Primary Care as doctoral researcher in October 2017. The aim of my PhD, which I completed in November 2020, was to develop recommendations for the optimisation of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services. The project was funded by Umbrella, which is part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of my PhD, I conducted a systematic review which summarised what is known about staff and users’ experiences of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services. I further conducted a quantitative retrospective study to analyse the utilisation of a large range of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services, which are delivered through Umbrella across more than 120 pharmacies. Informed by these two studies, I then conducted a qualitative interview study, in which I interviewed pharmacists, pharmacy healthcare assistants and pharmacy users about their experiences of delivering or being delivered with a sexual and reproductive health services at a pharmacy. I then integrated the findings of all three linked studies to develop recommendations for practice, policymakers and researchers.
I have a keen interest in improving health services delivery and am continuing to my research on pharmacy-based services related to contraception and sexually transmitted infections as part of the Early Career Fellowship at Warwick University, I am now further working at disseminating my research.
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Funded by |
The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust |
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PhD Student |
Julia Gauly |
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Supervisors |
Dr Helen Atherton (Warwick Medical School); Prof Jonathan Ross (University Hospitals Birmingham) |
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Collaborators |
Two students from Warwick Medical School, Isobel Hall and Irekanmi Soda, were involved in the systematic review on pharmacy-based sexual health services |
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Dates |
From October 2017 to October 2020 |
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External Links |
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=106807 https://databeerswrik.tumblr.com/ Pint of Science |
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