Healthcare innovation and improvement research
We are working on research to better understand, and solve, the practical challenges of health and social care systems.
Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²)
CHI² leads and explores multidisciplinary research into health and care systems, and ways to improve them.
Research
Read about the research we are involved in, including current projects with health and care partners, and academics.
Events
We regularly run healthcare-related events on campus.
Workshop on Healthcare Operations
Call for applications: We are organising a three-day workshop on 'Improving healthcare operations through modelling and simulation' in Bath this September.
News
Developments from the centre and healthcare-related news.
International Health Care Workshop with Koç University
Early-career workshop on “Improving health care operations through modelling and simulation” for UK and Turkey-based researchers in Bath, 28-30 July 2017.
Social value creation and relational coordination in public-private collaborations
Jens Roehrich's study uncovers the underlying mechanisms for social value creation in public-private collaborations.
Free online course for improving health and social care
Explore new and better ways of organising health and social care services.
CHI² event: ORAHS 2017
We hosted the 2017 EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services here in Bath.
Publications
Papers relating to our research.
Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²) publications
Selected publications by members of our CHI² research centre.
About us
This multi-disciplinary centre brings together extensive expertise at the University of Bath in applied health research, including operational research, operations management, analytics, information systems, other quantitative and qualitative research methods and models, and experience from different industries.
Contact us
Contact us for more information, or to collaborate on a research or consultancy project.
