Faculty of Health

Pharmacy

Undergraduate, Postgraduate and International

School of Pharmacy

How to Participate

Subscriptions for the 2011-2012 data collection has now closed. If you are interested in joining the scheme for the 2012-2013 data collection please register your interest by emailing your details to Andy Brooks (a.brooks1@keele.ac.uk) who will send you the appropriate information and forms to complete when they become available in the New Year.

Questionnaire(s) will be sent out electronically during April 2013. The questionnaires themselves are user-friendly, with guidance notes and error checking tools in place to help the user, plus help from the Keele team is available during working hours for further assistance.

Completed questionnaires are to be returned to Keele within the agreed timescales, generally during May and June, at which point a 'data checking exercise' is undertaken to help ensure that data is clean, accurate and error free.

The first draft of the report is returned to participants within a week of the questionnaire submission deadline.

Once all data has been received and finalised, the data is processed at Keele, and the specialist panel - made up of clinicians from the relevant discipline - meet to discuss the data. They then write a commentary on the findings, providing clinical interpretation of the data which is included in the final report.

Prior to Christmas, a generic report is then sent to each participant, together with a separate analysis tool enabling them to drill down into the data further and create their own charts and tables. There is a separate report for each Pathology discipline, each of which has it's own speciality panel.

At the end of the process, participants are invited to a user group meeting in Birmingham, where the findings of the report are discussed, and the participants get the opportunity to influence future development of the programme, and input their ideas. We will again be holding a multi-discipline user group meeting in January 2013 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre.

The annual timetable is as follows: