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Staff Profile

Dr Charlotte Richardson

Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice

  • Email: charlotte.richardson2@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: 0191 2082364
  • Address: School of Pharmacy
    King George VI Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle Upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I am a qualified pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. I have teaching experience in the areas of pharmacy practice, clinical skills and work-based learning. I am currently the lead for work-based learning provisions on the MPharm course and I will be taking over as Degree Programme Director in Summer 2023.


I joined the School of Pharmacy in September 2019 having formerly worked as a locum pharmacist in hospital and community pharmacies while undertaking a PhD in Pharmacy Education with Keele University. In this time I also contributed to teaching and mentoring undergraduate Pharmacy students at two Schools of Pharmacy. Prior to this I worked at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.


I continue to locum regularly within community pharmacy and I am also involved in several national committees in relation to undergraduate teaching including: the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Education Standards Committee, and Health Education England's pilot project looking at Entrustable Professional Activities.


Teaching

I currently manage the work-based learning placements for the MPharm course. This includes overseeing and delivering a range of placements for pharmacy students including: sessions at the Royal Victoria Infirmary where the students provide a counselling services to hospital inpatients, sessions running a 'student-led clinic' whereby students provide cardiovascular screening services to the public, and other sessions at various hospitals and employers to actively get students experiences in these sectors prior to graduation.


I am also involved in a range of other pharmacy practice teaching including the teaching of clinical skills to all stages, reflective practice and professional development, and inter-professional education.


I am keen to encourage active participation in work settings through use of Entrustable Professional Activities. Work-based learning is central to my role and I encourage students to learn from what they see in practice while on placement. I am also involved in developing a bespoke prescription-generating educational tool to supplement the development of skills in legally and clinically checking prescriptions.


I will be taking over as MPharm Degree Programme Director from Summer 2023 and currently am working in a deputy DPD position in preparation.

Research

My research falls in to two broad areas: Pharmacy practice and pharmacy education. In the practice space I am working on a series of projects looking at how informal/familial carers can be supported in their own health and wellbeing and also how to better support their family member they are caring for. This includes an NIHR RfPB funding project entitled Carer involvement in the transfer of medicines-related care for patients moving from hospital to home: a realist review to commence in Winter 2023. I am also working on other projects around the influence of marital status on lung cancer treatment receipt and deprescribing in palliative care (including both patient and care perspectives).


Within pharmacy education I am involved in implementing and then evaluating a novel student-led cardiovascular screening clinic. Both from a pedagogical and clinical perspective.

My PhD research evaluated the use of a novel simulation-based 'virtual patient' to help train pharmacists and pre-registration trainees in conducting patient counselling for those taking NOAC medicines. It is from this research that I developed an interest in Pharmacy and pedagogical research, and also innovative use of technology. 


Publications