Collaborative and co-Ordinated action for Medication Safety (COMS): Experience-based co-design of an intervention blueprint to improve general practice and community pharmacy collaboration

Penny J. Lewis; Christopher J. Armitage; Darren M. Ashcroft; Tom Blakeman; Fay Bradley; Kyle Jarman; Mark Jeffries; Rebecca Morris; Denham Phipps; Andrea D. Short; Steven D. Williams

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0338644

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Collaborative and co-Ordinated action for Medication Safety (COMS): Experience-based co-design of an intervention blueprint to improve general practice and community pharmacy collaboration

Penny J. Lewis ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: penny.lewis@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-5807

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Christopher J. Armitage,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Psychology & Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Darren M. Ashcroft,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2958-915X

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Tom Blakeman,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Population Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Fay Bradley,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NIHR Applied Research Collaboration - Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Kyle Jarman,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Mark Jeffries,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Population Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Rebecca Morris,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Denham Phipps,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Andrea D. Short,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1822-0215

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Steven D. Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Westbourne Medical Practice, Dorset, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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Collaborative and co-Ordinated action for Medication Safety (COMS): Experience-based co-design of an intervention blueprint to improve general practice and community pharmacy collaboration

Penny J. Lewis,
Christopher J. Armitage,
Darren M. Ashcroft,
Tom Blakeman,
Fay Bradley,
Kyle Jarman,
Mark Jeffries,
Rebecca Morris,
Denham Phipps,
Andrea D. Short

Published: December 26, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338644

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