Orla is a specialist psychiatric pharmacist and an accredited member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists. In the Bennett Institute, her research focuses on exploring prescribing trends of psychotropic medicines, especially within vulnerable populations such as patients with learning disability or autism. Orla has a BA (Pharm) from Trinity College, Dublin and a Clinical Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy from Aston University. She is also the Lead Research Pharmacist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Papers by Orla Macdonald
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
- Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2
- Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review