Staff Profile

Daniel is a Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy, Newcastle University.

Daniel graduated from the University of Durham/University of Newcastle with a Masters in Pharmacy in 2018, with a dissertation title “Clinical Practice Guidelines for older patients with multi-morbidities – what are the implications for deprescribing”.

Daniel was then part of the first cohort to undertake ORIEL where he ranked 62^nd in the country and completed his pre-registration training at University College London Hospitals. Daniel became a registered Pharmacist in August 2019. He then undertook a PhD titled “How to safely and routinely implement deprescribing in primary care” at University of Leeds, funded by NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety and Translation Research Centre.

It has been documented that polypharmacy, the use of 5 or more medicines concurrently, is on the rise. With this comes the risk of patients receiving potentially inappropriate medication leading to adverse drug reactions. The World Health Organisation (WHO) started a campaign known as “Medication Without Harm” looking to reduce avoidable medication-related harm by 50% in the next 5 years. Deprescribing of inappropriate medication may help to achieve this. Furthermore, pharmacists are routinely involved in the management of patient medication at the primary care level.

Daniel's PhD explores how routine and safe deprescribing might be implemented in to primary care, and the role of a pharmacists within this. This includes how pharmacists might ensure safety during routine deprescribing.

Daniel is involved in the teaching of pharmacy practice within the school. He is the academic lead on numeracy calculations across all stages and is involved in the teaching of clinical skills.

Daniel is also careers lead, and is involved in the organising of careers events and networking students with employers.

• Articles

  • Okeowo DA, Fylan B, Zaidi STR, Alldred DP. The patient’s perspectives of safe and routine proactive deprescribing in primary care for older people living with polypharmacy: a qualitative study. BMC Geriatrics 2024, 24, 844.
  • Previdoli G, Alldred DP, Silcock J, Biscoe S, Okeowo DA, Cheong V, Fylan B. ‘It's a job to be done’. Managing polypharmacy at home: A qualitative interview study exploring the experiences of older people living with frailty. Health Expectations 2024, 27(1), e13952.
  • Travis E, McCrorie C, Okeowo D, McHugh S, Parker E. Recognising the barriers to postgraduate study for students who identify as working-class. Psychology Teaching Review 2023, 29(1), 60-64.
  • Okeowo Daniel, Fylan Beth, Zaidi Tabish, Alldred David. Patient perspectives of safe and routine deprescribing for older people living with polypharmacy: an interview study. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2023, 31(Supp. 1), i36.
  • Davison J, Robinson-Barella A, Davies G, Campos-Hinojosa M, Collins C, Husband A, Okeowo D, Hester KLM, Lee R, Rapley T, De Soyza A. Patient attitudes to nebulised antibiotics in the treatment of bronchiectasis: a mixed-methods study. ERJ Open Research 2023, 9(3), 00735-2022.
  • Okeowo D, Zaidi STR, Fylan B, Alldred D. Barriers and facilitators of implementing proactive deprescribing within primary care: a systematic review. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2023, 31(2), 126–152.
  • Previdoli G, Cheong V, Alldred D, Tomlinson J, Tyndale-Biscoe S, Silcock J, Okeowo D, Fylan B. A rapid review of interventions to improve medicine self-management for older people living at home. Health Expectations 2023, 26(3), 945-988.
  • Okeowo D, Patterson A, Boyd C, Reeve E, Gnjidic D, Todd A. Clinical practice guidelines for older people with multi-morbidity and life limiting illness: what are the implications for deprescribing?. Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety 2018, 9(11), 619-630.

• Book Chapter

  • Henshaw L, Strickland-Hodge B, Okeowo D. Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing. In: Strickland Hodge B; Bradbury H; Dickinson R, ed. Practical Prescribing for Nurses : Developing Competency and Skill. London: Sage, 2024, pp.171-183.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Okeowo Daniel, Fylan Beth, Quyyam Faiqah, Butt Nazreen, Mills Tom, Zaidi Tabish, Alldred David. Developing deprescribing resources for older people with polypharmacy living in primary care: using co-design and logic modelling. In: Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference : Advancing Sustainable Medicines Optimisation. 2023, Bradford: Oxford University Press.
  • Okeowo D, Zaidi STR, Fylan B, Alldred DP. Routinely implementing safe deprescribing in primary care: a scoping review. In: Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference. 2022, Bath, UK.