YHORG/Health & Social Services SIG Meeting
May 24th at 2-5.30pm at Sheffield School for Health and Related Research
(ScHARR), Sheffield*
Maximising the Impact of OR-Type Health Studies
14.00 Session 1, chaired by Geoff Royston
Introduction and Overview - John Ranyard, organiser (5 minutes)
An External OR Consultant's Perspective
Tony Lewins, Ernst & Young
The provision of healthcare is currently one of the highest profile and most
emotive topics in the media. Growing demand, coupled with pressure on
public funding, is resulting in healthcare providers across the country
having to make some tough choices about the future structure and delivery of
healthcare services. This talk presents some of the ways that OR is being
used to assist with decision-making and uses some specific examples to
describe some of the complexity and difficulties that have to be overcome in
order to provide effective decision support and to maximise impact.
An Economist's Perspective
Matthew Bell, Frontier Economics
Economists and Operational Researchers often find themselves working on
similar projects in parallel. Each knows they could benefit from the other
but is uncertain how. This paper sets out, from the perspective of an
economist, some of the issues encountered in the economic modelling of
health in order to better understand where operational research might help.
It explores the issues in the context of some specific modelling exercises
to draw out where economics and OR together might maximise the impact of
research studies.
15.30 Tea break
15.50 Session 2, chaired by Tbc
Queue Modelling and Healthcare: chalk and cheese or fish and chips?
Dave Worthington, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University
Healthcare systems are rife with queueing systems, some have visible queues,
some have invisible queues, and some need to be managed so that queues
rarely or never occur. The literature is rife with queueing models, some
mathematically based and some simulation-based but only a small proportion
of it is relevant to queue management in healthcare. This presentation is
about the challenge of making future queue modelling work of greater
relevance to healthcare and contributes to the ongoing debate and joint
concern of healthcare managers and researchers that future healthcare
modelling research should be designed to have real impacts on the delivery
of healthcare.
An Academic Perspective: Research, Evidence, Clinicians and Decisions
Prof. Alan Brennan, Director of Health Economics & Decision Science, ScHARR
ScHARR's Health Economics & Decision Science group, combines the skills of
OR modellers, health economists, statisticians, evidence reviewers,
information scientists and a small number of clinical academics. This multi
disciplinary team collaborates with researchers and clinicians to contribute
to policy and evaluation in many areas including design of cancer screening
programmes, evaluation of drugs by NICE, and the potential impact of
changing the price of alcohol. This presentation, focussing on example
projects, covers how such work is done, the approaches the team has taken to
increasing the value of our work to decision makers, and a personal view of
some of the context factors and barriers which can affect impact.
1710 General Discussion
1730 CLOSE
*Room LR1/2, first floor of Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1
4DA -
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University of Westminster
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London W1W 6UW
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