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Medicines Optimisation

Our focus is to ensure patients receive the most effective, safe, and appropriate medications to achieve the best possible health outcomes.

Prescription of medicines that people do not need or want, or where harms outweigh potential benefits, is estimated to account for at least 10% of all medicines prescribed in the NHS. We have developed a portfolio of studies to focus on optimising medicines for older people.

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Our Research Projects

Designing and pilot testing an anticholinergic medication index clinical decision support system (ACMICS) for use in hospitals to support safer prescribing for older people at risk of medication-related harm

Addressing Anticholinergic Medication in Secondary Care Settings

Optimising Structured Medication Reviews for Older People with Severe Frailty and Care Home Residents to Reduce Overprescribing and Associated Inequalities

DynAIRx: AIs for dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity

Development of a learning system to optimise anticholinergic medication prescribing for older people living with frailty

See our impact stories, news items and event listings

News
30 July 2026

Celebrating the Remarkable Career of Professor Anne Forster

We celebrate the outstanding career and enduring impact of Anne Forster, Professor of Ageing and Stroke Research - a true leader, innovator, and champion in the field of health research.…
News
2 July 2026

NIHR20: Enabling Excellence in Ageing and Stroke Research

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has been transformational for our Unit. In 2006, we were a small team of six based at Bradford Royal Infirmary. We…
News
2 June 2026

ASR Away Day 2025: Shaping the Future of Ageing and Stroke Research in Bradford and Beyond

The Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research Away Day 2025 brought together NHS clinicians, researchers, social care professionals and community leaders and posed a deceptively simple question to its…