Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I’m the Lead Data Scientist at NHS Grampian and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.
Networked Data Lab
I run the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian’s collaboration with The Health Foundation and four other NHS centres across the UK. This is a seven-year, million-pound project working to reduce health inequalities.
My team’s specialty is working with big, messy, high-security health and social care data. Our focus is creating useful analysis for policy makers and care providers.
Get in touch if you're interested in an academic + NHS collaboration! We're always looking for partners in improving care.
Who Gets Care First?
We have a new briefing paper that describes inequalities in waiting times for hospital treatments – people who live in the most deprived areas wait longer for treatment and people from Black or Asian ethnic backgrounds tended to wait longer than white patients.
Prevention vs Recovery
We recently published on patient pathways into and out of our hospitals. We found that pre-COVID, community medical centres were used primarily for preventative care, but they are now mostly used for patients’ recovery after a hospitalisation.
Children's Mental Health Needs
Read our article on mental healthcare inequalities – we show that prescriptions for mental health meds have increased steeply, and younger children and boys are more likely to be rejected by mental health services. We also found that children deemed at significant risk of harm by social workers used five times more mental healthcare.
Research Culture
I’m a huge advocate for open science and good research culture. Scientists should be (but aren’t!) rewarded for doing rigorous science. I gave evidence about this to the House of Commons Science & Technology committee. You can also watch a symposium I hosted: Academic Journals are Broken. Let’s Build a Better Scientific Record.
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