Programme Director, Advanced Pharmacy Practice Programme, Joint Programmes Board & Associate Director for Clinical Pharmacy- Development and Evaluation, East & South East England Specialist Services  NHS

Tel: 020 7160 0538
Email: catherine.duggan@pharmacy.ac.uk

Biography

Catherine graduated from The School of Pharmacy, University of London in 1991 and undertook her pharmacy pre-registration training at the Royal Free Hospital in London.  After registering, Catherine started a part time PhD at the School of Pharmacy to identify ways to reduce discrepancies between supplies of drugs that patients are prescribed between hospital and community. During that time, Catherine managed a community pharmacy part time and undertook projects for (the then) East London and the City Health Authority.

At the time of her PhD award in1998, Catherine was co-ordinating and managing a multicentre project at the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She then took up the first of many joint appointments as a postgraduate Teaching and Research Fellow, at the School of Pharmacy, University of London and the Academic Department of Pharmacy, Barts and the London NHS Trust. In 2000, she was appointed as the Director of the Academic Department of Pharmacy at Barts and the London NHS Trust & Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and in February 2007, she took up her current post of Associate Director of Clinical Pharmacy Development and Evaluation for London, South East and Eastern and the School of Pharmacy, University of London.

Much of her work has involved the integration of research and practice at a Trust level. Her ambition is to work with many agencies to extend this theme of pharmacy science into practice through the robust, yet pragmatic, evaluation of drug use and medicines management. Developing programmes to support advanced practice will drive high quality evaluation and support the delivery and evaluation of clinically effective practice in pharmacy. 

Current Posts

In her current post, Catherine is leading the development of programmes to support Advanced Practice across all sectors of the profession with the Joint Programmes Board (London East and South Eastern Regions). Additionally, she is involved in developing an evaluation culture within pharmacy practice, including the evaluation of clinical guidance on drug use patterns, the use of new drugs in small patient populations and adoption of evidence-based practice.

To date, Catherine has published over 55 papers and articles, more than 100 abstracts and has been successful in securing £600,000 in research income.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Catherine is the current Chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association. She is an elected member of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a Council member of the RPSGB Science Committee; the Hospital Pharmacy Group; and an elected member on the English Pharmacy Board.

Selected Publications

Duggan C. Using evidence-based practice to better manage medicines: Examples of research guiding pharmacy practice and policy. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2008. 1: 274-284.

Duggan C., Bates I. Medicine information needs of patients: the relationships between information needs, diagnosis and disease  Quality  Safety in Health Care 2008. 17: 85-89.

Knez L., Laaksonen R., Duggan C., Nijjar R. Evaluation of clinical interventions made by pharmacists in cancer services Pharmaceutical Journal  2008: 280:277-280

Astrom K., Duggan C., Bates IP. Evaluating an intervention to improve communication between healthcare professionals within secondary care. Pharmacy Education 2007.  7(4): 325-331.

Astrom K., Duggan C., Bates IP. Developing a way to improve communication between healthcare professionals within secondary care. Pharmacy Education 2007. 7(3): 279-285.

Laaksonen R., Bates I., Duggan C. Training, clinical review performance and self-assessed competence: investigating influences. Pharmacy Education 2007. 3: 257-265.

Laaksonen R, Mills ER, Duggan C, Davies JG, Bates I, Mackie CA. The effect of training and service provision on the self-assessed competence of community pharmacists. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2007. 15:141-147.

Laaksonen R, Duggan C, Bates I, Mackie C. Performance in clinical therapeutics training of community pharmacists. Pharmacy Education 2007. 7:167-175.

Duggan C. Reducing prescribing discrepancies following hospital discharge: the UK perspective. Safer Healthcare 2007. http://www.saferhealthcare.org.uk/IHI/Topics/DischargingPatients/CaseStudies/ReducingPrescribingDiscrepancies.htm