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Professor Simon Jones

Chair in Health Care Management and Policy

Qualifications: PhD

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 2993
Room no: 73 AP 02

Office hours

I am normally in at Surrey on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursdays  and Friday

Further information

Biography

Simon holds the Chair in Health Care Management and Policy within the Department of Health Care and Policy. Prior to this he has held a number of senior posts in health care including Chief Statistician at Dr Foster Intelligence and a secondment as Head of Analytics for the Centre for Workforce Intelligence for 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

  • Griffiths, P., Jones, S. and Bottle, A. (2012) An assessment of “failure to rescue” derived from routine NHS data as a nursing sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical inpatient care. International Journal of Nursing Studies (In Press)full text
  • Donaldson J, McIntosh B & Jones S (2012) The Gordian knot: provision in Scotland and England, British Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol 18, No 19
  • Cookson G, McIntosh B Jones S (2012) Canceled Procedures: inequality, inequality and the NHS reforms, Health Economics, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.2860/abstract
  • de Lusignan S, Liaw S-T, Michalakids G, Jones S (2012) Defining datasets and creating data dictionaries for quality improvement and research in chronic disease using routinely collected data: an ontology-driven approach, Informatics in Primary Care 2011;19:127–33
  • Dmitrieva O, Michalakidis G, Mason A, Jones S, Chan T, Lusignan S de (2012) Consistent Data Recording across a Health System and Web-Enablement Allow Service Quality Comparisons: Online Data for Commissioning Dermatology Services, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 174, ISBN 978-1-61499-051-2
  • McIntosh B, Cookson G,  Jones S (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
  • de Lusignan S,  Chan T, Jones S (2011) Editorial: Large complex terminologies: more coding choice, but harder to find data – reflections on introduction of SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms) as an NHS standard, Informatics in Primary Care 2011;19:3–5
  • 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

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Teaching

I teach statistical computing in R on the  Surrey Informatics Summer School . This year it's being held  30th June to 6th July 2012