I studied management science (operational research) at Lancaster University. I have worked in industry and spent five years at the Audit Commission. I joined the Department of Health Services Research and Policy in 1997 after completing the MSc in Medical Statistics at LSHTM.
Affiliations
Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
I am a seminar leader and lecturer on the term 1 module Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy. I am a co-organiser, lecturer and seminar leader on the term 2 module Reviewing the Literature. I am a tutor on MSc Public Health.
Research
My main research interests are in the use of routine, secondary care data for health care quality improvement, service delivery and organisation research. This has included work on the national Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme for elective surgery in England and the modernisation of adult critical care services in England in collaboration with the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC). I also have an interest in vasculitis and polymyalgia rheumatica including work on vasculitis classification criteria (DCVAS) and temporal artery ultrasound in giant cell arteritis (TABUL).
I work as a methodologist at NATCAN, the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre based in the Clinical Effectiveness Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
I am also involved in several studies using routine data that mostly use target trial approaches and instrumental variable methods to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery: ESORT (Emergency Surgery OR noT), ESORT-C19, ESORT-VASC (vascular ESORT) and SORT (Surgery Or RadioTherapy).
I am a member of the research partnership team and deputy theme lead for the Health Economics and Data theme at the North Thames Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). I was a statistical editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group and the journal Health Policy and Planning. I am a trustee and board member of Health Services Research UK.
I work as a methodologist at NATCAN, the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre based in the Clinical Effectiveness Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
I am also involved in several studies using routine data that mostly use target trial approaches and instrumental variable methods to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery: ESORT (Emergency Surgery OR noT), ESORT-C19, ESORT-VASC (vascular ESORT) and SORT (Surgery Or RadioTherapy).
I am a member of the research partnership team and deputy theme lead for the Health Economics and Data theme at the North Thames Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). I was a statistical editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group and the journal Health Policy and Planning. I am a trustee and board member of Health Services Research UK.
Research Area
Health services research
Data science
Clinical guidelines
Quality of care
Systematic reviews
Applied statistics (medical)
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Chronic diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Country
United Kingdom
Georgia
Region
Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)
Selected Publications
2022 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR Classification Criteria for Giant Cell Arteritis.
2022
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)
The Role of Ultrasound Compared to Biopsy of Temporal Arteries in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis (TABUL): a diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness study.
2016
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)
A systematic review of factors affecting the judgments produced by formal consensus development methods in health care.
2016
Journal of health services research & policy
Late response to patient-reported outcome questionnaires after surgery was associated with worse outcome.
2013
Journal of clinical epidemiology
A comparison of formal consensus methods used for developing clinical guidelines.
2006
Journal of health services research & policy