OR in Health: Looking back and looking forward

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OR in Health Looking back and looking
forward Jim Chilcott YHORG Health Social
Services SIG Meeting 26th February 2009

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Applied and methodological health services
research
ScHARR

• Health economics
• Operational research Systematic review
• Statistics
• Information science.

• Epidemiology
• Public health
• Emergency medicine
• Rehabilitation
• Mental health.

175 staff - Most POWERFUL HSR unit in RAE
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HEDS Health Economics and Decision Support

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Applied programmes
NICE ScHARR-TAG Public Health Collaborating
Centre Review Body for Interventional
Procedures NICE Decision Support Unit
Consultancy Evidence Based Commissioning Group
YH Research Design Service

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HEDS Teaching

• MSc Programme
• Health Economics and Management
• Economics and Health Economics
• Health Economics and Decision Modelling
  (Forthcoming)
• Short Course Programme

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ScHARR MS Model
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Colorectal cancer model
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ScHARR Alcohol Model
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Methods development

• Research planning
• Value of information
• Bayesian synthesis
• Problem structuring methods
• Information gathering

• Trial simulation
• Whole disease models
• Public Health methods
• Structural uncertainty
• MCDA in PH decision making

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Past and future ofOR in ScHARR

Regional HA ? Academic world Improve modelling
methods Support decision making in NHS Be a good
place for modellers