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Professor Paul Rutter
Summary
I am a leading pharmacy academic on clinical reasoning and diagnostic performance in community pharmacy practice.
Biography
I qualified as a pharmacist in 1992 and started work as a community pharmacist before taking up posts with Boots the Chemist as a teacher practitioner, working at both Bradford and Portsmouth Universites. I then took up a post as a research pharmacist gaining a PhD (2000) investigating skill mix in community pharmacy. I started my first full-time academic post at Portsmouth university (2000-2005) before joining Wolverhampton university (2006-2015) where I helped to set up a new School of Pharmacy. Here I also was promoted to Professor in Pharmacy Practice (2012). In 2015 I moved to the University of Central Lancashire before returning back to Portsmouth in 2018. I have a keen interest in educational innovation and I am sole author of a leading pharmacy textbook, ‘Community Pharmacy, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment’, which is now in its fourth UK edition (Feb, 2017). This book has been adapted for the Australian and New Zealand market and been translated into a number of foreign languages.
Research interests
As my background is as a community pharmacist I have a keen interest in investigating and developing their role. Specifically, this centres on their diagnostic ability in being facilitators of self-care, increasing their prominence in public health (e.g. healthy living pharmacies), and establishing new services or improving patient care pathways (e.g. hospital discharge in to the community). As an educator of pharmacy students I also have a keen interest in professional development and formation of professional identity.
Teaching responsibilities
I use research-led and research informed teaching to deliver teaching on clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis. I enjoy utilising interactive teaching methodologies such as 'flipped classroom'; Team-Based Learning and gaming to apply knowledge to clinical encounters
Media availability
I am available for media interviews and have previously been featured on regional BBC radio.
Research outputs
2025
The importance of clinical reasoning in differential diagnosis for non-medical prescribers, nurses and pharmacists
Rutter, P.
1 Aug 2025, In: Clinics in Integrated Care. 31, 8p., 100271
Research output: Article
Just-in-case drugs in the dying: home deaths retrospective chart review
Rutter, P., Howard, P., Clawson, S., Gough, M.
19 Jun 2025, In: BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care
Research output: Article
Development of a complex multidisciplinary medication review and deprescribing intervention in primary care for older people living with frailty and polypharmacy
Radcliffe, E., Saucedo, A. R., Howard, C., Sheikh, C., Bradbury, K., Rutter, P., Latter, S., Lown, M., Brad, L., Fraser, S. D., Ibrahim, K.
22 Apr 2025, In: PLoS One. 20, 4, 22p., e0319615
Research output: Article
2024
Fidelity to and utility of a home blood pressure self-monitoring regime in people with pre-hypertension: results from the REVERSE study
Bray, E., Hives, L., Spencer, J., Georgiou, R., Benedetto, V., Clegg, A., Rutter, P., Watkins, C., Williams, N.
1 Jun 2024,
Research output: Poster
Facilitating self-care through community pharmacy in England
Rutter, P., Barnes, N.
1 Mar 2024, In: Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy. 13, 100404
Research output: Article
Non-pharmacological interventions for the reduction and maintenance of blood pressure in people with prehypertension: a systematic review protocol
Bray, E. P., Georgiou, R. F., Hives, L., Iqbal, N., Benedetto, V., Spencer, J., Harris, C., Clegg, A., Williams, N., Rutter, P., Watkins, C.
22 Jan 2024, In: BMJ Open. 14, 1, 5p., e078189
Research output: Article
2023
Uses and experience of highly standardised plant medicine extracts by UK medical herbalists
Tobyn, G., Rutter, P., Sprung, S.
1 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Herbal Medicine. 42, 7p., 100742
Research output: Article
Automated search methods for identifying wrong patient order entry—a scoping review
Garrod, M., Fox, A., Rutter, P.
1 Oct 2023, In: JAMIA Open. 6, 3, 12p., ooad057
Research output: Article
What makes a multidisciplinary medication review and deprescribing intervention for older people work well in primary care? A realist review and synthesis
Radcliffe, E., Servin, R., Cox, N., Lim, S., Tan, Q. Y., Howard, C., Sheikh, C., Rutter, P., Latter, S., Lown, M., Brad, L., Fraser, S. D. S., Bradbury, K., Roberts, H. C., Saucedo, A. R., Ibrahim, K.
25 Sep 2023, In: BMC Geriatrics. 23, 1, 28p., 591
Research output: Article
When patients should seek medical care for minor ailments: perspectives of first- and final-year pharmacy students
Taylor, J. G., Nakhla, N., Aspden, T., Rutter, P., Van Amburgh, J.
28 Aug 2023, In: Pharmacy Education. 23, 1, p. 479-490
Research output: Article