Selected Papers
2025
Thompson A, Bartle V, Remfry EA, Reynolds DJ, Barnes MR, Reynolds NJ, Hanratty B, 2025. Public and Patient Involvement in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Healthcare Research: An Exploration of Issues and Challenges Within the AI‐Multiply Project. Health Expectations; 28; 6.
Reynolds DJ, Mountain S, Bartle V, Remfry E, Barnes MR, Reynolds NJ, Thompson A, AI MULTIPLY. 19th August 2025. Targeting everyday decision makers in research: early career researcher and patient and public involvement and engagement collaboration in an AI‑in‑healthcare project.
Reynolds DJ. Carbon Reporting Practices in the NHS: Emissions and Omissions Relating to Artificial Intelligence. J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e79174 doi: 10.2196/79174PMID: 41144961PMCID: 12603583.
Reynolds DJ. Regulation of AI scribes: the blurred boundary between “admin” and “clinical” work BMJ 2025; 390 :r1978 doi:10.1136/bmj.r1978
Reynolds, DJ., Perrotta, M. & Maeilli, G. Finding trials for participants: an ethnographic study of successful recruitment strategies for clinical trials. Trials 26, 282 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-025-08993-6
Gurumurthy G; Knox L; Thachil J; Bates I; Hibbs SP. Questions from the woman in the painting: revisiting chlorosis. Lancet Haematol. 2026 (In press)
Hibbs SP, Chipare I, Halawani AJ, et al. Multinational assessment of absolute neutrophil counts and white blood cell counts among healthy Duffy-null adults. Blood. 2026;147(3):290-298. doi:10.1182/blood.2025029359
Okoibhole, L.O., Dasaolu, F., Garba-Sani, Z. and Hibbs SP (2025), Cellular therapies for sickle cell disease: Should we be calling them a cure?. HemaSphere, 9: e70283
Hibbs SP, Aiken L, Vora K, Mowete C, Merz LE, Apea V, Sloan JM, Lathan CS, Abel GA, Hantel A. Cancer Trial Eligibility and Therapy Modifications for Individuals With Duffy Null-Associated Neutrophil Count. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2432475.
Johnstone, P., Allen, P., Jimenez-Agrawal, P., Agrawal, S. and Hibbs SP. De-diagnosing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: An ethical and scientific case for changing diagnostic criteria. HemaSphere, 2025 9: e70252
Gurumurthy G, Thachil J, de Wit K, Hibbs SP. Choosing words wisely: Language, metaphor, and psychological challenges after pulmonary embolism. HemaSphere. 2025 Oct 28;9(10):e70232.
Hibbs SP, Buka RJ, Shaniqua M, Greaves P, James J, Telfer P. Can health inequalities in sickle cell disease be addressed through novel therapies? Hemasphere. 2025 Jul 10;9(7):e70175.
Hantel A, Hibbs SP, Merz LE, Abel GA. The Duffy-Null Phenotype — Addressing a Source of Discrimination in Cancer Care. New Engl J Med. 2024 Nov 28;391(21):1969-1972. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2409329.
Caldwell L, Hibbs SP. Informed consent is almost impossible. Hemasphere. 2024 Sep https://doi.org/10.1002/hem3.70002
Hibbs SP. The unsung generosity of cord blood donation. BMJ. 2024 Sep 4;386:q1927. doi: 10.1136/bmj.q1927
Hibbs SP, Thomas S, Agarwal N, Andrews C, Eskander S, Abdalla AS, Staves J, Eckelman MJ, Murphy MF. What is the environmental impact of a blood transfusion? A life cycle assessment of transfusion services across England. Transfusion. 2024 Mar 20.
Evans S, Hibbs SP. When to stop: Transfusions, difficult conversations and creativity. Hemasphere. 2024 May 28;8(5):e79. doi: 10.1002/hem3.79
Hogger, L, Swinglehurst, D and Fudge, N. 2025. ‘Dementia and the Disappearing Subject: A Framing Analysis of Drugs for Dementia in UK News Media’. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health 8:100603. doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100603.
van Blarikom, E., Fudge, N. and Swinglehurst, D. (2025), Living “Out of the Loop”: Unemployment in the Context of Long-Term Illness. Anthropol. Work Rev e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70004
Owen-Boukra E, Cai Z, Duddy C, et al. Collaborative and integrated working between general practice and community pharmacies: A realist review of what works, for whom, and in which contexts. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/13558196241290923
(2024)
Thomson A, Fudge N, Van Blarikom E, Swinglehurst D. Addressing Polypharmacy: Developing Public-Facing Resources Through Storytelling-Based Co-Design. Thomson A, Fudge N, Van Blarikom E, Swinglehurst D International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 2024 Jul 9;23:16094069241266194.
Pocknell S, Fudge N, Collins S, Roberts C, Swinglehurst D. ‘Troubling’ medication reviews in the context of polypharmacy and ageing: a linguistic ethnography. Social Science & Medicine. 2024 May 31:117025.
Burke S, Hibbs SP. “Low-risk” myelodysplastic neoplasm (MDS): Time for a name change? Hemasphere. 2025 Jan 7;9(1):e70066.
2024
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making
Hawking, M and Swinglehurst, D. Social Science & Medicine 2024.
Obituary for a diagnosis: B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia (1974-2022).
Hibbs SP, Smith ML, & Swinglehurst D. Hemasphere 2024.
Curiosity and compassionate care: rehumanising the admission clerking
Hibbs SP. BMJ 2024.
The hidden work of general practitioners: an ethnography
Barnard R, Spooner S, Hubmann M, Checkland K, Campbell J, Swinglehurst D. Social Science & Medicine 2024.
Prescribing and Deprescribing. In ‘Generalism in Clinical Education and Practice’ (UCL Press).
Swinglehurst D, & Fudge N. 2024.
Addressing Polypharmacy: Developing Public-Facing Resources Through Storytelling-Based Co-Design
Thomson A, Fudge N, Van Blarikom E, Swinglehurst D International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 2024 Jul 9;23:16094069241266194.
2023
Hogger L, Fudge N & Swinglehurst D. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2023
Why Do We Diagnose Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis? Five Questions
Hibbs SP & van Blarikom E. Hemasphere 2023.
Painting the place where procedures cause pain
Beitzke S, Shiel J, & Hibbs SP. Lancet Haematology 2023.
When Patients Tell a Story We Have Not Yet Learned to Hear
Hibbs SP. Hemasphere 2023.
Living with polypharmacy: A narrative interview study with older Pakistanis in East London
Sultan N, & Swinglehurst D. BMC Geriatrics 2023.
van Blarikom E, Fudge N, & Swinglehurst D. Sociology of Health & Illness 2023
Multimorbidity: a problem in the body or a problem of the system? Letter.
van Blarikom E, Fudge N, & Swinglehurst D. BJGP 2023.
Swinglehurst D, Hogger L, & Fudge N. BMJ Quality & Safety 2023.
Hawking MK, Dezateux C, & Swinglehurst D. Critical Public Health 2023.
Payne R, et al (Spitters, S). BMJ Quality & Safety 2023.
2022
The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern: a critical review.
van Blarikom E, Fudge N, Swinglehurst D. BioSocieties 2022.
Swinglehurst D, Hogger L, Fudge N. BMJ Quality & Safety 2022.
Fudge N, and Swinglehurst D. Social Science & Medicine 2022.
Owen EC, Abrams R, Cai Z, Duddy C, Fudge N, Hamer-Hunt J, Husson F, Mahtani KR, Ogden M, Swinglehurst D, Turner M. BMJ Open 2022.
2021
Keeping in balance on the multimorbidity tightrope: A narrative analysis of older patients’ experiences of living with and managing multimorbidity.
Fudge N, Swinglehurst D. Social Science & Medicine 2021
Organising polypharmacy: unpacking medicines, unpacking meanings — an ethnographic study.
Swinglehurst D, Fudge N. BMJ Open 2021
Framing obesity in public discourse: Representation through metaphor across text type
Cotter C, Samos D, Swinglehurst D. Qualitative Health Research 2021
Self-Management in Older Pakistanis Living With Multimorbidity in East London.
Sultan N, Swinglehurst D. Qualitative Health Research 2021
“It’s all about patient safety”: an ethnographic study of how pharmacy staff construct medicines safety in the context of polypharmacy.
Fudge N, Swinglehurst D. BMJ Open 2021
Digital Consumer Health: Negotiating Multiple Voices in the Clinical Consultation
Lea, K.E., Hjörleifsson, S. and Swinglehurst, D. Professions and Professionalism
2020
Adherence and the moral construction of the self: a narrative analysis of anticoagulant medication.
Hawking M, Robson J, Taylor S, Swinglehurst D. Qualitative Health Research 2020
Spencer S, Swinglehurst D. InnovAiT: Education and Inspiration for General Practice 2020
2019
Improving cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative study.
Hawking MKD, Timmis A, Wilkins F, Potter JL, Robson J. BMJ Open 2019.
Video-reflexive Ethnography in health research and healthcare improvement: theory and application.
Swinglehurst D. Health Sociology Review 2019
Addressing the polypharmacy challenge in older people with multimorbidity (APOLLO-MM): study protocol for an in-depth ethnographic case study in primary care.
Swinglehurst D, Fudge N. BMJ Open 2019
2018
The Everyday Ethics of Burdensome Polypharmacy.
Swinglehurst D, Hjörleifsson S. Public Policy & Aging Report 2018
Understanding medical overuse: the case of problematic polypharmacy and the potential of ethnography.
Armstrong N, Swinglehurst D. Family Practice 2018
2017
