Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²)
We are a multi-disciplinary centre at the University of Bath specialising in applied health research and consultancy.
Members of the centre work closely with health and social care managers and professionals, drawing on a wide range of research expertise, including:
- operational research/management science
- operations management
- analytics
- information systems
- other quantitative and qualitative research methods and models
- experience from different industries.
Our activities are supported by a number of experienced visiting and honorary staff, who provide invaluable clinical advice and insight in the workings of national and international health systems.
Members
Research associates
Doctoral students affiliated with the Centre
- Marianna Liaskou, An exploration of the development and effect of collaboration between community pharmacists (CPs) and general practitioners (GPs)
- Zhening Liu, Operations management studies in the implementation and experience of telehealth
- Savvas Morris, Investigating the dynamics between local hospital leaders and policy makers in the context of quality improvement initiatives: the case of radiotherapy service provision
- Matthew Woodward, Operational decision making in healthcare and decision support models
- Dr Therese Fish MBChB, DCM, MBA (completed 2021), The evolution of an interorganisational network in higher education in South Africa between a provincial health department and health sciences faculties
- Elena Kasparis (completed 2020), Improving performance in humanitarian pharmaceutical donation supply chains: a study of the neglected tropical diseases preventative chemotherapy supply chain
- Marianna Frangeskou (completed 2018), An exploration of standardised processes in a knowledge-intensive healthcare operation: Implementing the acute stroke care ‘pathway
Visiting and honorary
- Anna Burhouse MA MA MSc, Director of Quality Development, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Paul Forte PhD, BNSSG Clinical Commissioning Group and management consultant / co-founder of the Balance of Care Group
- Professor Carol Peden MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH, Professor of Anesthesiology and Executive Director, Centre for Health System Innovation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
- Simon Sethi MBA, Chief Operating Officer, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Mark Tooley PhD FREng, Immediate Past President of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine; Specialist Scientific Advisor for NHS England
- Dr Tricia Woodhead BM MBA MRCP (UK) FRCR, Associate Clinical Director for Patient Safety, West of England Academic Health Science Network (WEAHSN)
- Dr Richard Wood PhD, Head of Modelling and Analytics, BNSSG Clinical Commissioning Group
Selected recent MSc project students
- Elizabeth Yardley, An application of process mining in healthcare: using electronic patient records to investigate mental health care pathway, in collaboration with Mayden
- Marina Lopes Curi, How to apply an integrative model to improve a customer journey: A case study of a software development company, in collaboration with Mayden
- Manon De Prez, Supporting capacity planning in community care through novel computer simulation models developed in R, in collaboration with BNSSG CCG
- Panayiotis Nikakis, Optimising Healthcare Facilities Location through a Bi-Objective Efficiency-Equity Model, in collaboration with BNSSG CCG
- Chun-Yu Lo, Time Series Forecasting of Clinical Activities to Support National Planning, in collaboration with NHS Improvement
Past members
- Dr Gozdem Dural Selcuk
- Dr Marianna Frangeskou, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
- Dr Margaret Joan Greenwood
- Dr Panagiotis Manolitzas
- Dr Neophytos (Neo) Stylianou