Biography

Simon has a joint appointment as a Research Professor within the Department of Health Care and Policy as Chief Statistician at Dr Foster Intelligence. Simon has just finished a secondment as Head of Analytics for the Centre for Workforce Intelligence for Health and Social Care. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at Kings College, London where he is also a visiting professor. Prior to that Simon has held a number of senior posts in health and social care.

Research Interests

• Analysis of health outcomes data from large data sets such as hospital episode statistics
• Simulation and mathematical modeling applied to health care

Publications

B McIntosh, G Cookson,  S Jones (2012)  'Cancelled Surgeries and Perverse Incentives in the English National Health Service' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 17(2)
[Article in print Journal] http://jhsrp.rsmjournals.com/content/early/2012/02/07/jhsrp.2011.011053.abstract

Bloom N, Cooper Z, Gaynor M, Gibbons S, Jones S, McGuire A, Moreno-Serra R, Propper C, Van Reenen J, Seiler S. In defence of our research on competition in England’s National Health Service. The Lancet 2011; 378(9809): 2064 – 2065

Cooper ZN, Gibbons S, Jones S, McGuire A (2011) Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Economic Journal, Volume 121, Issue 554, pages F228–F260

Jones S, Crouch, S, Carolan M,  Wardlaw J, (2011) Modelling catchment areas for secondary care providers: a case study,  Health Care Management Science, [Epub ahead of print]

Griffiths, P., Dawoud, D.,Murrells, T., Jones, S, (2010) Hospital admissions for asthma, diabetes and COPD: is there an association with practice nurse staffing? A cross sectional study using routinely collected data. Biomed Health Services Research. (10) 276

Griffiths P, Murrells T,  Maben J, Jones S, Ashworth M (2010) Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care in UK General Practice: Cross sectional study using routinely collected data, British Journal of General Practice, 60 (570) pp 34-39

Jarman B, Pieter D, Veen A A van der, Kool R B, Aylin P, Bottle A, Westert G P and Jones S (2010), The Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio: a powerful tool for Dutch hospitals to assess their quality of care?  Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19 (1), pp. 9-13

Cooper ZN, McGuire A, Jones S, Le Grand J (2009) Equity, Waiting Times and the NHS Reforms, BMJ 2009;339:b3264

Joy, M. & Jones, SA. (2005), Transient probabilities for a queue with applications to waiting list management in the NHS, Health Care Management Science, 8, pp. 231-236

Jones S, Duncan E, Thomas N, Walters J, Dick, MC, Height, SE, Stephens AD, Thein, SW and Rees, DC (2005), Windy weather and low humidity are associated with an increased number of hospital admissions for acute pain and sickle cell disease in an urban environment with a maritime temperate climate, British Journal of Haematology 131 (4): 530-533  

Thurlow V, Ozevlat H, Jones SA and Bailey IR (2005) Establishing a practical blood platelet threshold to avoid reporting spurious potassium results due to thrombocytosis, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 42 (3): 196-199(4)

Jones SA, Joy MP, Pearson J (2003) Forecasting demand of emergency care, Health Care Management Science, 5(4):297-305

Professional/ Journalist Publications

Jones S, Forde J (2009) A look at non-attendance at outpatient appointments, Health Services Journal, 19 February, pp19

Jones S (2008) Waiting times: cutting inequalities, Health Services Journal, 17 January pp21

Jones S (2008) Readmission is not simply correlated with length of stay, Health Services Journal, 6 March, pp 21

Jones S (2008) Timely Admissions reflects efficiency, Health Services Journal , 22 May, pp23

Jones S and Davies M (2008) Elective procedures: all in a day’s work, Health Services Journal, 19 June, pp25

Jones S and Davies M (2008) Who is causing the cancelations? Health Services Journal, 17 July, pp21

Jones S and Davies M (2008) Admissions up for treatable illness, Health Services Journal, 7 August, pp19

Jones S and Davies M (2008) Why wait for emergency surgery, Health Services Journal, 7 October, pp19

Jones S and Barnett N (2008) Why admission day effects outcome, Health Services Journal, 30 October, pp17

Working Papers

Cooper ZN, Gibbons S, Jones S, McGuire A (2010) Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? An Analysis of the Recent Market-Based Reforms to the English NHS, LSE Centre for Economic Performance, Paper No' CEPDP0988, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28578/

Cooper ZN, Gibbons S, Jones S, McGuire A (2009) Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence from the recent English NHS Reforms, December http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28584/

Gerova, V., Griffiths, P., Jones, S., Bick, D., (2010). The association between midwifery staffing and outcomes in maternity units in England: observational study using routinely collected data. Preliminary report and feasibility assessment, National Nursing Research Unit draft report to funder,  

Jones, S, Griffiths, P, Bottle, A,( 2010) An assessment of failure to rescue derived from routine NHS data as a nursing sensitive patient safety indicator:  National Nursing Research Unit draft report to funder,  

Morrow E, Griffiths P, Maben J, Jones S, Robert G, 2010.)The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care - Learning and Impact Review. NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Coventry

Griffiths P, Jones S, Maben J, Murrells T (2009) State of the art metrics for nursing: a rapid appraisal, Working Paper from Kings College, London,  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/04/32/19/Metricsfinalreport.pdf

Television

Jones S, Interview: 'No shows' cost the NHS millions, BBC Breakfast, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8195255.stm , 12 Aug 2009