The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7179 p873-877
22-29 December 2001

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Research trust to look at how people take medicines

The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust is to look at how people actually use medicines as part of a 10-year programme of research entitled "Medicines and people".

The programme will investigate four interrelated themes:

1. The health of the public and the place of medicines
2. The right medicine for the right patient, preventing medication errors
3. Medicines and the health of communities
4. Science technology and medicines

Sir Graham Hart, chairman of the trust said: "At present, we know too little about the social and ecomonic factors that affect how medicines are prescribed and used."

The trust was established in 1999 as an independent research charity. It has a board of trustees drawn from senior health policy makers, academics, industrialists and retailers. Its research and development committee includes academics in health service, policy, medical and pharmacy practice research.

The trust will be starting a campaign next year to raise the estimated £10m needed to fund the research programme.

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