Dr Joseph Bush

Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice

School of Life & Health Sciences
Aston Triangle
Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK

• Email: j.bush2@aston.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0) 121 204 4016

Profile

I initially joined the School of Life and Health Sciences as an Academic Support Officer in Pharmacy Practice in December 2007. Upon completion of my PhD (August 2008), I was transferred to my current position of Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice.

I graduated (MPharm) from Aston in 2002 and undertook my pre-registration year in a Birmingham-based independent pharmacy chain. Post-registration I have been a locum community pharmacist as well as completing my PhD at Aston under the supervision of Dr Chris Langley.

Qualifications & education

• MPharm, Aston University, 2002
• PhD, Aston University, 2008

Employment

• 2008 – date: Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University.
  
• 2007 – 2008: Academic Support Officer in Pharmacy Practice, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University.
• 2003 – date: Self-employed Locum Pharmacist

Teaching activity

Pharmacy practice, public health and research methods on the MPharm and OSPAP programmes.

Research interests

• The public health function of pharmacy and pharmacists
  
• Pharmacy and health inequalities
  
• Health care policy and pharmacy
• Medication adherence
• Organisational culture and professionalism within community pharmacy
  

Member of the Medicines Research Unit.

Member of research strand: 'Ageing lives: the social, psychological and public policy contexts of health behaviour and medicines management' -  Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing

Current research projects

• The Aston Medication Adherence Study (AMAS) in conjunction with Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT).
• An evaluation of the implementation and impact of Healthy Living Pharmacies within Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT). Funded by the Pharmaceutical Trust for Educational and Charitable Objects (PTECO).
  

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 2003 to date
  
• Registrant with the General Pharmaceutical Council since 2010
  

Selected publications 

Published Reports

• Bush J, Langley CA, Patel A, Harvey JE. Evaluation of the Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT) My Choice Weight Management Programme. Report commissioned by Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust. December 2011. [Download PDF]
  

Articles

• Bush J, Langley CA, Wilson KA. The corporatization of community pharmacy: implications for service provision, the public health function and pharmacy's claims to professional status in the United Kingdom. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 2009. 5(4): 305-318. ISSN 1551-7411.

Published Abstracts

• Bush J, Langley CA, Wilson, KA. Community pharmacists' engagement with public health in Great Britain. Pharmacy Practice (Internet). 2010. 8 (Supplement 1): 90. ISSN 1886-3655.

• Bush J, Langley CA, Wilson KA. Community pharmacy in a commissioning-led NHS: can pharmacy compete effectively? International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2008.16 (Supplement 3). C13-14. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Wilson KA. Developing the public health function of locum pharmacists under the auspices of the new pharmacy contract. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2008. 16 (Supplement 3). C40-41. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson JK, Wilson KA. Variations in public health provision: the mixed market of pharmacy ownership. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2007.15 (Supplement 2). B53. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson J, Wilson KA. The new pharmacy contract and its effects on the public health contribution of community pharmacists. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2006.14 (Supplement 1). A23. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson J, Wilson KA. Exploratory interviews with pharmacy-based public health "key players". International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2006.14 (Supplement 1). A24. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson J, Wilson KA. Pharmaceutical input into public health planning in UK primary care organisations. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2006.14 (Supplement 1). A25. ISSN 0961-7671.
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson J, Wilson KA. Perceived barriers to the development of community pharmacy's public health function: a survey of the attitudes of Directors of Public Health and Chief Pharmacists in UK primary care organisations. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2006.14 (Supplement 2). B68-69. ISSN 0961-7671
  
  
• Bush J, Langley CA, Jesson J, Wilson KA. How useful can pharmacy be in improving the health of the public? A survey of the attitudes of Directors of Public Health and Chief Pharmacists in UK primary care organisations. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2006.14 (Supplement 2). B69-70. ISSN 0961-7671.

Conference proceedings

• Implementing Choosing Health Through Pharmacy: The Development of Community Pharmacy's Public Health Activity. United Kingdom Public Health Association 15th Annual Forum. 28th March 2007, Edinburgh.