Recent Publications

 I have nearly 50  peer-reviewed research publications (see Orcid ID  for full list), I am a joint research grant holder of £3 million total from NIHR and HCRW, and  I regularly present as an invited speaker at research and clinical conferences. My main areas of research focus on medication-related harms and optimisation for therapeutics for patients with complex multiple physical and mental health conditions, and the use of AI-technology to improve healthcare outcomes in patients taking multiple medicines (polypharmacy) for multiple long-term health conditions (multimorbidity). I am an Honorary Professor and Senior Clinical Research Lecturer at three UK universities where I collaborate with research (Universities of Liverpool, Glasgow and South Wales). 

2025

Woodall A, Buchan I, Walker LE, Sheard S, Fu Y, Joyce D, Johnson CF, Mair FS. 'Flattened, fattened, and forgotten': the 'dis-integrated' care of patients prescribed antipsychotics in the UK. Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Dec 26;75(750):9-10. 

Aslam, A., Walker, L., Abaho, M.  (Woodall A, et al.) An automation framework for clinical codelist development validated with UK data from patients with multiple long-term conditions. BMC Med Res Methodol 25, 138 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02541-1 

Eduard Shantsila, Alan Woodall, Frances S Mair, Aseel S Abuzour, Danushka Bollegala, Harriet Cant, Andrew Clegg, Mark Gabbay, Alan Griffiths, Layik Hama, James Harmsworth-King, Benedict Jones, Gary Leeming, Emma Lo, Simon Maskell, Maurice O’Connell, Olusegun Popoola, Samuel Relton, Asra Aslam, Roy A Ruddle, Pieta Schofield, Matthew Sperrin, Tjeerd Van Staa, Samantha Wilson, Iain Buchan, Lauren E Walker Attitudes towards deprescribing in patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in primary care

medRxiv 2024.12.19.24319303; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.24319303 (Preprint - submitted for publication to BMJ Open)

 Wang Y, Fahmi A, Woodall A, Ashcroft D, Sperrin M, van Staa T. Association between phases of antidepressant treatment and hospital admission for older adults in English primary care: a matched case-control study. (2025) Submitted for publication to Br. J. Psychiatry (under review) 

2024

Woodall A, Gampel A, Walker LE, Mair FS, Sheard S, Symon P, Buchan I. Antipsychotic management in general practice: serial cross-sectional study (2011-2020). Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Dec 26;75(750):e68-e79. 

Woodall AA, Abuzour AS, Wilson SA, Mair FS, Buchan I, Sheard SB, Atkinson P, Joyce DW, Symon P, Walker LE. Management of antipsychotics in primary care: Insights from healthcare professionals and policy makers in the United Kingdom. PLoS One. 2024 Mar 1;19(3):e0294974. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294974. 

Abuzour AS, Wilson SA, Woodall AA, Mair FS, Clegg A, Shantsila E, Gabbay M, Abaho M, Aslam A, Bollegala D, Cant H, Griffiths A, Hama L, Leeming G, Lo E, Maskell S, O'Connell M, Popoola O, Relton S, Ruddle RA, Schofield P, Sperrin M, Staa TV, Buchan I, Walker LE. A qualitative exploration of barriers to efficient and effective structured medication reviews in primary care: Findings from the DynAIRx study. PLoS One. 2024 Aug 30;19(8):e0299770. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299770. 

Newstead S, Jesurasa A, Jenkins B, Lavans A, Woodall A, Wallace C. Speaking the Same Language - The Development of a Glossary of Terms for Social Prescribing in Wales. Int J Integr Care. 2024 Jul 1;24(3):3. doi: 10.5334/ijic.8591. 

2023

Woodall A, Prosser A, Griffiths M, Shooter B, Garfitt J, Walker L, Buchan I. Cardiovascular risk estimation in rural psychiatric inpatient populations: Cross-sectional preliminary study. Psychiatry Res Commun. 2023 Mar;3(1):100103. doi: 10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100103 

2022

Walker LE, Abuzour AS, Bollegala D, Clegg A, Gabbay M, Griffiths A, Kullu C, Leeming G, Mair FS, Maskell S, Relton S, Ruddle RA, Shantsila E, Sperrin M, Van Staa T, Woodall A, Buchan I. The DynAIRx Project Protocol: Artificial Intelligence for dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity. J Multimorb Comorb. 2022 Dec 15;12:26335565221145493. doi: 10.1177/26335565221145493. 

 Woodall, A. and Walker, L. (2022), A guide to prescribing antidepressants in primary care. Prescriber, 33: 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/psb.2006 

2021

Woodall, A. (2021), Managing patients on atypical antipsychotics in primary care. Prescriber, 32: 18-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/psb.1952