Professor Susan Latter PhD BSc (Hons) RN, PGDipHV

Professor of Health Services Research

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Professor Sue Latter is lead for the Medicines Management Research Group, in the Fundamental Care Research Theme. Sue is leading national and international research into prescribing and medicines optimisation, as part of supporting patient self-management of long term conditions, end-of-life care and promoting antimicrobial stewardship. Her research and publications also include a focus on patient experience of self-management and evaluation of patient-centred interventions for self-management of long term conditions. Sue has also played a leading role in the development of clinical academic careers for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the UK.

Discovering the best ways to help professionals and patients optimise the use of medicines is a critical part of effective health care.

Career history

Present post: Professor 2008 – present School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
Visiting Professor 2020 – present School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University

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Research interests

Medicines management; end-of-life medicines management; access to medicines; antimicrobial stewardship; antibiotic prescribing; prescribing; nurse prescribing; paramedic prescribing; community pharmacy; biosimilars. Self-management: patient experience; nurse-led interventions.

Sue supervises a number of PhD and DM students from nursing, medicine, pharmacy and paramedicine.

Leading national and international research into the quality and impact of prescribing and medicines management interventions. 
Leading research into patient experience of self-management and evaluation of patient-centred interventions for self-management of long term conditions. 
Strategic development and leadership in clinical academic careers.

Date	Staff	Funder	Research project name	Fund
2019-2020	Cummings F Latter S Young D	Biogen Idec	IBD Adalimumab Switching Study (IBaSS)	£682,429
2019-2021	Roberts G Thomas M Bruton A Yardley L Breathing Ainsworth B Latter S Whitehead A Knibb R Holley S Kennington E	NIHR Research for Patient Benefit	REtraining for Asthma Trial of Home Exercises for Teenagers (BREATHE4T); repurposing, refining and feasibility.	£247,376
2018-2020	Latter S Richardson A Bennett M Blenkinsopp A Campling C Ewing S Santer M	NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research	Accessing medicines at end-of-life: a multi-stakeholder, mixed method evaluation of service provision	£652,327
2018-2019	Cummings F Latter S Harris C Gwiggner M	Biogen Idec	IBD Biosimilar to Biosimilar Infliximab Switching Study (IBiSS)	£628,463
2018-2020	Leydon G Barnes R Woods C Stevenson F Hayward G Moore M Booker M Stuart B Little P	NIHR School for Primary Care Research	Out of Ours Antibiotic Prescribing	£445, 891
2017-2019	Hand K Latter S Hopkins S Marwick C	Merck Sharp and Dohme	A mixed methods observational study to evaluate the implementation of a smartphone software application (App) and computerised decision-support system (CDSS) for antibiotic treatment guidelines	£120,862

Research group

Medicine Management

Research theme(s)

Fundamental Care

Health Needs

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Articles

Book Chapter

Latter, S. (2010). Promoting concordance in prescribing interactions. In M. Courtenay, & M. Griffiths (Eds.), Independent and Supplementary Prescribing: an Essential Guide. 2nd Edition (pp. 107-118). Cambridge University Press.

Conferences

Reports

Latter, S., Blenkinsopp, A., Smith, A., Chapman, S., Tinelli, M., Gerard, K., Little, P., Celino, N., Granby, T., Nicholls, P., Dorer, G., & Department of Health (2011). Evaluation of nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton; School of Pharmacy, Keele University on behalf of Department of Health.
Latter, S., Richardson, A., & Fader, M. (2010). Clinical academic role descriptors: research. University of Southampton.
Latter, S., Maben, J., Myall, M., Courtenay, M., Young, A., & Dunn, N. (2005). An evaluation of extended formulary independent nurse prescribing: executive summary. University of Southampton School of Nursing and Midwifery on behalf of Department of Health.

Working Paper

Latter, S., Richardson, A., Fader, M., Coombs, M. A., Atherton, L., Bailey, C., Chable, R., Diggins, J., Duke, S., Green, S., Kitsell, F., Lewis, A., Prieto, J., Rankin, S., Stephenson, J., & Westbury, J. (2011). Clinical academic career pathway for nursing and allied health professionals: clinical academic role descriptors. University of Southampton.

Sue contributes to pre-registration curricula through curricula design, lectures, seminar facilitation and marking.

Sue is also a Personal Academic Tutor to pre-registration nursing students.

Professor Susan Latter
University of Southampton, Health Sciences Building 67, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number NNN: 67/4065

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