All Stories

  1. Setting research priorities for palliative and end-of-life care: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership Refresh

    Article • BMJ Open, February 2026, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  2. ‘I need policymakers to listen’: a stakeholder needs assessment concerning anticipatory injectable medication systems, using a novel qualitative survey

    Article • January 2026, openRxiv

    Mr Ben Bowers

  3. Revealing the hidden harms in end-of-life care: a mixed-methods characterisation of reported safety incidents involving injectable symptom control medication

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, November 2025, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  4. Learning from end-of-life injectable medication patient safety incidents in the community: a mixed-methods analysis

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, September 2025, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  5. Sorted: an experimental interpretive poetry piece on injectable medications care at the end of life

    Article • Journal of Research in Nursing, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  6. Pharmacist-led guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure: impact analysis in primary care

    Article • BMJ Open Quality, September 2025, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  7. How do GPs’ new ways of working affect community nurses? A qualitative study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, January 2025, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  8. Multiple points of system failure underpin continuous subcutaneous infusion safety incidents in palliative care: A mixed methods analysis

    Article • Palliative Medicine, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  9. Reforming primary palliative care: a call to arms

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, December 2023, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  10. The financial costs of anticipatory prescribing: A retrospective observational study of prescribed, administered and wasted medications using community clinical records

    Article • Palliative Medicine, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  11. Traveller end of life care experiences and needs: thematic analysis

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, July 2023, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  12. Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, May 2023, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  13. Developing community and primary care nursing research

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2023, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  14. Managing medication at the end of life: supporting family carers

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, January 2023, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  15. Editorial: Developing research potential in the primary and community-nursing workforce: the impact of a community of practice

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Ben Bowers

  16. Simultaneously reassuring and unsettling: a longitudinal qualitative study of community anticipatory medication prescribing for older patients

    Article • Age and Ageing, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Ben Bowers

  17. End of life care in UK care homes - controlled drugs: systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2022, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  18. Community-based anticipatory prescribing during COVID-19: a qualitative study

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2022, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  19. Building a community nursing research community of practice

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2022, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  20. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end of life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: A mixed methods observational study

    Article • Palliative Medicine, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  21. The known unknowns of assisted hydration at the end of life

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  22. What's in a name?

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  23. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end-of-life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: a mixed methods observational study

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Ben Bowers

  24. Anticipatory syringe pumps: benefits and risks

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, January 2021, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  25. End-of-life care during COVID-19: opportunities and challenges for community nursing

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, January 2021, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  26. GPs’ decisions about prescribing end-of-life anticipatory medications: a qualitative study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, September 2020, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  27. Cytosponge-trefoil factor 3 versus usual care to identify Barrett's oesophagus in a primary care setting: a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

    Article • The Lancet, August 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Ben Bowers, Professor Peter Sasieni

  28. Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: online survey

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  29. Reassessing advance care planning in the light of covid-19

    Article • BMJ, May 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  30. Patient and public involvement in general practice research

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, April 2020, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Mr Ben Bowers

  31. Administration of end-of-life drugs by family caregivers during covid-19 pandemic

    Article • BMJ, April 2020, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  32. Getting anticipatory prescribing right in end-of-life care

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2019, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  33. A chance to improve end-of-life care

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2019, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  34. Anticipatory syringe drivers: a step too far

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, June 2019, BMJ

    Mr Ben Bowers

  35. Commentary: Unlocking intuition and expertise: using interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore clinical decision making

    Article • Journal of Research in Nursing, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  36. Anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications for adults at the end of life in the community: A systematic literature review and narrative synthesis

    Article • Palliative Medicine, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Mr Ben Bowers

  37. Evidence-based practice in community nursing

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, July 2018, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  38. A qualitative study of community nurses’ decision-making around the anticipatory prescribing of end-of-life medications

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, May 2017, Wiley

    Mr Ben Bowers

  39. Care in the last days of life

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2016, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  40. Shaping future delivery of care: district nurses seizing the day!

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  41. Spinal cord compression

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, April 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  42. Quality indicators in community care

    Article • Primary Health Care, February 2014, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  43. Measuring safe staff levels in the community: the ‘DominiC’ workforce management tool

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2014, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  44. Measuring the clinical effectiveness of district nurses

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, July 2013, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  45. The Department of Health's model for district nursing: supporting practice

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, March 2013, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  46. Measuring and demonstrating district nursing's clinical effectiveness

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, June 2012, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  47. Using referral guidelines to support best care outcomes for patients

    Article • British Journal of Community Nursing, March 2012, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  48. The role of community nurses in providing a seamless patient pathway

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, September 2009, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  49. Student life-man about the house

    Article • Nursing Standard, August 2009, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  50. Opportunity knocks

    Article • Nursing Standard, May 2009, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  51. Providing effective support for patients facing disfiguring surgery

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, January 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  52. The value of a staff nurse forum in meeting the local needs of a district nursing service

    Article • Primary Health Care, October 2007, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers

  53. Tracheostomy: facilitating successful discharge from hospital to home

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, April 2007, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  54. Evaluating the evidence for administering phosphate enemas

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, April 2006, Mark Allen Group

    Mr Ben Bowers

  55. Opportunity knocks

    Article • Nursing Standard, March 2003, RCNi

    Mr Ben Bowers