Skip to content
Chris Pritchard

Mr Chris Pritchard

Senior Lecturer

Institute of Health and Allied Professions

Staff Group(s)
Nursing and Paramedicine/IHAP

Role

Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Practice and Emergency Care. He is course lead for the suite of Clinical Research courses offered by NTU. He teaches across all the paramedicine courses, with a specific interest in healthcare law and ethics, research methods, technology in healthcare, and palliative and end of life care.

Chris is also the Academic Integrity Lead for the Institute of Health and Allied Professions, taking a lead in promoting good practice and the implementation of Academic Misconduct procedures within the Institute.

Career overview

Chris has held a variety of roles prior to entering academia; In addition to consistently undertaking clinical shifts as a paramedic, he has worked in governance, investigating serious incidents and worked both clinically and within education in a specialist palliative care setting.

Research areas

Chris has an interest in the transparent reporting of methodologies and has contributed to the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon.

External activity

Chris holds a bank Paramedic contract with the East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust and is an expert witness, providing reports surrounding breach of duty in relation to clinical negligence claims.

In addition to his clinical work, he has completed 8 hours as a Fitness to Practice panel member for the Health and Care Professions Council.

Chris is also an External Examiner for the BSc (hons) Paramedic Science course at St George's, University of London and for the European Certificate in Essential Palliative care designed by Princess Alice Hospice and run by the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted.

In addition to these, Chris is Branch Secretary of the NTU Branch of the University and College Union and is the East Midlands Regional Secretary, and is due to start as a member of UCU's National Executive Committee in May 2025.

Chris has accounts on both Mastodon and Bluesky

Publications

Haddaway, N. R., Page, M. J., Pritchard, C. C., & McGuinness, L. A. (2022). PRISMA2020: An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020-compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18, e1230. https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1230

Haddaway, N. R., Bannach-Brown, A., Grainger, M. J., Hamilton, W. K., Hennessy, E. A., Keenan, C., Pritchard, C. C., & Stojanova, J. (2022). The evidence synthesis and meta-analysis in R conference (ESMARConf ): levelling the playing field of conference accessibility and equitability, Systematic Reviews, 11(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01985-6

Veroniki, A. A., Hutton, B., Stevens, A., McKenzie, J. E., Page, M. J., Moher, D., McGowan, J., Straus, S. E., Li, T., Munn, Z., Pollock, D., Colquhoun, H., Godfrey, C., Smith, M., Tufte, J., Logan, S., Catalá-López, F., Tovey, D., Franco, J. V. A., ..., Pritchard, C., ...,Tricco, A. C. (2025). Update to the PRISMA guidelines for network meta-analyses and scoping reviews and development of guidelines for rapid reviews: A scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 23(3), 517-526, https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-24-00308

See all of Mr Chris Pritchard's publications...

Course(s) I teach on