The Health Care Needs Assessment series, funded by the Department of Health/National Institute of Clinical Excellence, is compiled and managed in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham. The project team comprises of:
Professor Andrew Stevens - Project Director and Lead
Editor
Professor James Raftery - Editor (Director of Health Economics Facility, Health
Service Management Centre)
Dr Jonathan Mant - Editor (Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dept. of Primary Care &
General Practice)
Dr Sue Simpson - Project Manager and research fellow
Mr Adrian Boulton - Secretary
Professor Stevens is Professor of Public Health and Head of Department in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham, England. His departmental interests span epidemiology, health services research and NHS information resource. His personal interests concern health technology assessment, evidence based health care, and needs assessment. He is (co-)director of the National Horizon Scanning Centre, providing advance notice of new medical innovations to government; and a founder member of Euro-Scan, a collaborative health care horizon scanning group across Europe and Canada; he has established a Health Care Evaluation Service which reviews, models cost-utility and appraises the evidence on new and existing health technologies. He was formerly the first Director of the National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment at Southampton University. He is deputy chairman of National Institute for Clinical Excellence's (NICE) Appraisal Committee.
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Jonathan Mant is a senior lecturer in the Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham. He trained in medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1985. After four years of junior hospital posts, he became a registrar in public health medicine in 1989, and a lecturer in public health medicine at the University of Oxford in 1992, before moving to Birmingham in 1997. His current research interests include stroke and cardiovascular disease in community settings.
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James Raftery MA, PhD joined HSMC to become director of the Health Economics Facility in 1996. The Health Economics Facility, which is funded by the West Midlands R&D Directorate for five years, has 7 health economics posts. It has formal links to three departments within the University of Birmingham: the Health Service Management Centre, the Department of General Practice and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Its brief covers research, education and consultancy. It research brief includes design of economic aspects of research projects as well as initiating its own research. Education and training in health economics is being taken forward both in short courses and developing an MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy. Consultancy work for Health Authorities in the West Midlands to date has involved surveys round hospital prescribing.
Before moving to HSMC, James worked at the Wessex Institute for Research and Development and for Wandsworth Health Authority. He has also worked on secondment as an economic advisor to the Department of Health and to the National Case-mix Office. James' current projects include: · involvement in several health technology evaluations (anti-coagulation clinics, chondrocyte implantation, stroke services), · analysis of the public expenditure impact of new health technologies, · the use of routine data in health technology assessment, a national R&D project, methods of costing diseases, interventions and programmes. As well as being an editor of the Health Care Needs Assessment series, he has edited a series on economic evaluation for the British Medical Journal. He is also a regular contributor to various medical journals and to the Health Service Journal.
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Sue is a research fellow in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham. She is project manager for the Health Care Needs Assessment (HCNA) series. She co-ordinates the production of the series and is co-author of the HCNA chapter on Varicose Veins and of a chapter and a toolkit commissioned by the Prison Health Service and NHS Executive on the Health Care Needs of Prisoners.
Previous to this post Sue was employed from 1994-1997 by Sandwell Health Authority as a Food Policy Adviser and gained a PhD in 1994 from the Food Policy Research Unit at the University of Bradford.
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Adrian works as secretary to the Health Care Needs Assessment project. He is also currently studying for a Health Sciences degree at the University of Wolverhampton. He has worked within the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology for ten years on various projects. His previous job was as a Data Manager and Electro-magnetic Fields Technician for the central region of the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study.
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