ScHARR Mini Master Class - Undertaking data-centric healthcare research - Tuesday 18th January 2022

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems
Professor Susan Mason
Tuesday 18th January 2022

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Title

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

Presenter

Professor Suzanne Mason

(Professor of Emergency Care)

Abstract

This talk will focus on the importance of developing real world data systems for research, the value it can bring to research and the importance for improving the health and care of populations. I will talk about my own research journey using real-world data relating to urgent and emergency care. I will describe the challenges involved in managing the governance and data acquisition hurdles, describing how we developed linked datasets and provide some examples of how it helps us to understand and improve the system.

Bio

Professor Mason qualified in medicine from London University in 1990 and then trained initially in surgery and then specialised in Emergency Medicine.

From there she spent a year as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow and was awarded an MD whilst undertaking higher training in Emergency Medicine.

Professor Mason joined Sheffield University as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2001, was promoted to Reader in 2007 and professor in 2010. She divides her time between the university and as a consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust emergency department.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/suzanne-mason

https://twitter.com/profsuemason

HEDS Contribute to Major new report that connects North’s poor health with poor productivity

Dr Harry Hill has contributed to a major new report that connects North’s poor health with poor productivity. The report was commissioned by The Northern Health Science Alliance and had identified the key findings:

Key report findings

• Reducing the number of working aged people with limiting long term health conditions by 10% would decrease rates of economic inactivity by 3 percentage points in the Northern Powerhouse
• Increasing the NHS budget by 10% in the Northern Powerhouse will decrease economic inactivity rates by 3 percentage points
• If they experience a spell of ill health, working people in the Northern Powerhouse are 39% more likely to lose their job compared to their counterparts in the Rest of England. If they subsequently get back into work, then their wages are 66% lower than a similar individual in the rest of England.
• Decreasing rates of ill health by 1.2% and decreasing mortality rates by 0.7% would reduce the gap in gross value added (GVA) per-head between the Northern Powerhouse and the Rest of England by 10%.
• Increasing of the proportion of people in good health in the Northern Powerhouse by 3.5% would reduce the employment gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England by 10%
• Given the relationship between health, health care and productivity in the Northern Powerhouse, then in order to improve UK productivity, we need to improve health in the North.

Recommendations

Central Government

• To improve health in the North by increasing investment in place-based public health in Northern Powerhouse local authorities
• To improve labour market participation and job retention amongst people with a health condition in the Northern Powerhouse
• To increase NHS funding in the Northern Powerhouse – to be spent on prevention services and health science research
• To reduce economic inequality between the North and the rest of England by implementing an inclusive, green industrial strategy

Northern Powerhouse Local and Regional Stakeholders

• Health and Wellbeing boards and the emerging NHS integrated care systems should commission more health promotion, condition management and prevention services
• Local enterprise partnerships, local authorities and devolved Northern regions should develop locally tailored ‘health-first’ programmes in partnership with the local NHS and third sector providers
• Local enterprise partnerships, local authorities and devolved Northern regions should scale-up their place-based public health programmes across the life course: ‘starting well’, ‘living well’ and ‘ageing well’.
• Local businesses should support job retention and health promotion interventions across the Northern Powerhouse workforce and Northern city regions and Northern NHS integrated care systems should lead by example.

Read the full report here

Website of the Month - ISPOR International Digest of Databases

This month's website is the ISPOR International Digest of Databases. 

© ISPOR

Taken from the site:

"The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) has developed an electronic index (digest) of 400 databases from 45 countries.  The Digest consists of key attributes of health care databases. It is grouped by country and allows both key word searches and searches by type of database.

The Digest is an invaluable source of information for health care outcomes researchers around the world.  This information is also very useful to health care decision makers, clinicians, and ultimately, patients.

If your organization has a health care database that could be included in the ISPOR International Digest of Databases, please complete the questionnaire at: Health Care Database Key Attributes Questionnaire."

https://www.ispor.org/DigestOfIntDB/CountryList.aspx