CHIPPS is a 5 year NIHR research programme to determine the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of pharmacist independent prescribing in care homes.

Joined May 2016
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CHIPPS Study retweeted
Are you a care home looking to improve your staff flu #vaccination rates? Older people’s care homes needed for research study. £500 participation payment. Click here to express interest norwichcrtu.uea.ac.uk/redcap…. Please RT
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CHIPPS Study retweeted
9 Sep 2021
Our researchers are launching a £1.4 million @NIHRresearch funded project to improve flu jab uptake in care homes & save lives #ThinkingWithoutBorders @AmrishEcon @UEA_Economics @UEAPharmacy @NorwichCTU @UeaMed @NCFCareForum @BootsUK @CareEngland 👉 ow.ly/bJpY50G6SMF
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CHIPPS Study retweeted
13 Sep 2021
Still looking for #carehome staff to join a panel to help design #deprescribing (meds stopping) strategies for care homes. £300 gift voucher given for personal time. Please sign-up here forms.office.com/r/KiaAQdBKz…
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CHIPPS Study retweeted
24 Aug 2021
Are you care home staff, a GP or pharmacist independent prescriber responsible for care home residents? We’re recruiting a panel to help design #deprescribing strategies for care homes. Gift vouchers given for personal time. Click here to express interest forms.office.com/r/KiaAQdBKz…
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Excellent CHIPPS dissemination event
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Professor Christine Bond describes the CHIPPS Process Evaluation
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CHIPPS Researchers present their experience and lessons learnt in a Question Time format
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Sarah Mapes shares what it was really like being part of CHIPPS as a PIP
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882 Participants recruited
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Professor Wright describes the CHIPPS pharmacist prescriber training development process. Nothing done by halves in this project.
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Health Economic methodology . . .
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Exciting moment for CHIPPS as our dissemination event is happening now . . .
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CHIPPS Study retweeted
Hi! Polly here, on behalf of Norwich Clinical Trials Unit. For @pintofscience #pint20 #pint20Norwich, we’d like to share some #PintSizedScience. Our trial managers, data programmers, statisticians, and healthcare experts work on high quality research to improve patient care. 1/5
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Thrilled to post that @CHIPPS_Study has completed all our data collection and that we have started to analyse our primary outcome data. Enormous thanks to the whole team!!! #carehomeresearch #pharmacyresearch
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Whilst we are disappointed that we could not share our work with you at the RPS Science and Research Summit 2020, our abstract has now been published online as a supplementation of the IJPP. Ours is number 4, read it here: bit.ly/3f4Pume
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Prof. Carmel Hughes, CHIPPS PI in Belfast, recently wrote an opinion piece for the @bmj_latest with Prof. M. Tunney & Prof. K. Lapane on why covid-19 deaths in care homes are not being counted, and what needs to be done to protect those most at risk: bit.ly/2W8UIFk
26 Apr 2020
"Death is an inevitable part of old age. But this cannot be viewed as an acceptable reason for ignoring the growing numbers of covid cases and deaths in care homes" ow.ly/xfEQ50zonBl @UMassMedical @pharmacyatQUB
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