Carmel Hughes

Professor

Head of School, School of Pharmacy
Material and Advanced Technologies for Healthcare

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 2147
Emailc.hughes@qub.ac.uk

Room 0G.020 - Pharmacy & MCI
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Open to PhD applications in the field of primary care, prescribing, older people, and medicines optimisation. Most projects which students undertake are mixed methods in nature i.e. using both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

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Personal profile

Interests

Carmel Hughes PhD is a pharmacist by training and Professor in Primary Care Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy. Her research interests focus the quality of drug use in older people particularly in long-term care setting and primary care, using a variety of study designs. She has published extensively on these topics and has led programmes of research in intervention studies in nursing homes for older people. Prof. Hughes was the first pharmacist to have been awarded a Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. She spent her fellowship year at the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University where she collaborated with Profs. Kate Lapane and Vince Mor on pharmacoepidemiological studies in nursing homes.She was awarded the British Pharmaceutical Conference Medal for her research in September 2001. She is the only pharmacist to have been awarded a National Primary Care Career Scientist Award from the Research and Development Division of the Department of Health in London. She has been a Cochrane Fellow, Editor for the EPOC group in the Cochrane Collaboration and was formerly the Joint Clinical Lead for the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network. She is an Associate Editor for Pilot and Feasibility Studies. She is a member of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Commissioned Prioritisation Committee and a member of Sub-Panel 3 for REF 2020.

Research Statement

Prof. Hughes's research interests lie in care of older people. She has undertaken a range of studies in primary and long-term care, ranging from observational epidemiology to cluster randomised controlled trials, and qualitative exploratory studies. Emphasis has been on elucidating factors which may influence prescribing in settings, notably long-term care, such as structural characteristics, pharmacist interventions and more recently, treatment culture. She has also undertaken studies on MRSA prevalance in nursing homes, an infection control education intervention study in nursing homes and led the N. Ireland contribution to the European Surveillance on Antimicrobial Consumption Point Prevalence studies in nursing homes, part of a 22 EU country project. She has contributed to a number of Cochrane systematic reviews. She has a particular interest in interventions studies and the development of interventions using a systematic approach. This has informed a number of ongoing studies on medicines optimisation for people with dementia, and the prescribing of appropriate polypharmacy in primary care. Prof. Hughes's research has been funded from a range of sources including goverment, charities and the EU.

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Projects

3 Active

R1779PMY: Understanding and improving antimicrobial prescribing in care homes: a multidisciplinary approach

Hughes, C.

28/06/2017 → …

Project: Research

R2995PMY: Development of an intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care

Hughes, C., Gormley, G., Passmore, P. & Ryan, C.

01/08/2012 → …

Project: Research

R4489PMY: Pharmacy prescribing in Northern Ireland - a quantitative and qualitative assessment <PHAR/MDB>

Hughes, C., Gormley, G. & Parsons, C.

01/08/2008 → 17/12/2019

Project: Research

Research Output

Antimicrobial Stewardship in Care Homes: Outcomes of Importance to Stakeholders

Nguyen, H. Q., Bradley, D. T., Tunney, M. M. & Hughes, C. M., 10 Jan 2020, In : The Journal of hospital infection.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

A qualitative study to refine a theory-based intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care

Gorman, A., Rankin, A., Barry, H., Cadogan, C., Gormley, G., Fahey, T., Ryan, C., Gardner, E., Agus, A., Leathem, C., Maxwell, M., Molloy, G., Ferrett, A., McCarthy, P. & Hughes, C., 31 Mar 2020, In : International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 28, S1, p. 12 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

A systematic review of general practice-based pharmacists’ services to optimise medicines management in older people with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

Hasan Ibrahim, A., Barry, H. & Hughes, C., 31 Mar 2020, In : International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 28, S1, p. 47 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

Open Access

A systematic review of interventions to improve medicines optimisation in frail older people in primary care

Faulkner, L., Hughes, C. & Barry, H., 31 Mar 2020, In : International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 28, S1, p. 48 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

Open Access

Brief interventions targeting long-term benzodiazepine and Z-drug use in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lynch, T., Ryan, C., Hughes, C., Presseau, J., van Allen, Z., Bradley, C. & Cadogan, C., 27 Jan 2020, In : Addiction.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Prizes

Chemist and Druggist Pharmacy Practice Research Medal. Title of Medal lecture: 'Lessons from America: Legislating for better drug use and quality care in nursing homes.'

Hughes, Carmel (Recipient), 2001

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Cochrane Fellowship

Hughes, Carmel (Recipient), 2006

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, New York. Title of project: An evaluation of prescribing and related clinical outcomes in US nursing homes: the basis of a model of care in the United Kingdom.

Hughes, Carmel (Recipient), 1998

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

National Primary Care Career Scientist Award

Hughes, Carmel (Recipient), 2001

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Activities

12 Membership of peer review panel or committee
3 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
3 Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
1 Hosting an academic visitor
2 More
- 1 Membership of external research organisation
- 1 Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel