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Research group

Health Workforce and Systems

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We research how healthcare is organised and delivered in a range of contexts, with the aim of achieving better outcomes for patients.

Part of Health science

About

Our focus is on the people and working conditions necessary to provide safe, high quality health services.

Evidence from our research helps shape healthcare policy and practice everywhere from hospitals to care homes. This is especially important now, when there is a global shortage of healthcare workers.

We look at how care processes, and the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of health services, are affected by:

  • workforce substitution
  • variation in staffing levels
  • how shift work is organised

We also study the methods used to calculate workforce requirements.

Our work explores healthcare delivery, and the experience of patients, their families and carers, in a variety of settings. These include hospitals, community services and general practice.

We also work with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (Wessex) in its workforce and health systems research area.

People, projects and publications

People

Professor Bronagh Walsh

Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Bronagh

Email: b.m.walsh@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Carole Fogg

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Carole

Email: c.l.fogg@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Chiara Dall'ora

Lecturer in Nursing

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chiara

Email: c.dallora@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Christina Saville MSc, PhD, AFORS

Senior Research Fellow

Connect with Christina

Email: c.e.saville@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Ivaylo Vassilev

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ivaylo

Email: i.i.vassilev@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Jaimie Ellis

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jaimie

Email: j.ellis@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor Jane Ball FRCN PhD RN Bsc(Hons)

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Jane

Email: jane.ball@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Jeremy Jones

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with Jeremy

Email: jeremy.jones@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Joanne Turnbull

Lecturer

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Joanne

Email: j.c.turnbull@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Mrs Lesley Turner

Senior Teaching Fellow

Connect with Lesley

Email: l.y.turner@soton.ac.uk

Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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