HOPE at UoM

Fantastic to see research by @igorfrancetic.fyi and Michael Anderson be acknowledged in the BJGP Top 10 for 2025. Make sure you go and give the paper a read!
bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Later on in the day there will also be discussions from other HOPErs: @lukemunford.bsky.social, @igorfrancetic.fyi and Shaolin Wang.

🎉Today is the first day of the 3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop (CHEW). 🎉
To kick things off, @domignon.bsky.social discussed Pauline Mente's work on: "Health Shocks and Risk-Taking Behaviour: Evidence from Longitudinal Experimental Data".

Doriane's work (together with @profbambra.bsky.social, @nickycullum.bsky.social, @mattxsutton.bsky.social and @lukemunford.bsky.social) explores the association between within-area inequalities in mental health and economic productivity in England.

Yesterday, @domignon.bsky.social presented at the Productivity Conference, organised by the Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social.

Impacts of livelihood empowerment programs on refugee wellbeing and economic inclusion: Evidence from Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia The ongoing insecurity and environmental shocks in Somalia have led to a substantial refugee influx into Ethiopia since 2006, particularly affecting D…

New paper from Silas Amo-Agyei: "Impacts of livelihood empowerment programs on refugee wellbeing and economic inclusion: Evidence from Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia"

Read it here 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The GP Patient Survey | Data that drives change This free one-day event focuses on the value The GP Patient Survey brings to primary care research in England

GP Patient Survey Conference
📢 Registration is now open!
📍 Manchester | 1 October 2025
🎤 Keynote: Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund)
“20 Years of Understanding Patient Experience – What Have We Learnt?”
💡 Free to attend
👉 Register & find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gp-pat...

Yesterday Laura Anselmi & Jon Gibson presented at a Health Financing and Mental Health Equity seminar in Indonesia.

Jon talked about "Mental health and lost productivity in Indonesia" whilst Laura spoke on "Equity and efficiency in health resource allocation and provider payment".

Whilst Siyu presented her work looking at the impact of gambling venues on individual-level outcomes in England, supervised by Lachy Cameron.

Ted presented work looking at the community healthcare workforce across England, exploring variation by need and system-level determinants, supervised by Yao Wei.

Today we had the pleasure of hearing from our two #NIHR
@arc-gm.bsky.social summer interns, Ted Thomas and Siyu Chen.

They were both fantastic presentations, representing a huge amount of work!

Our HOPE contingent have a busy few days coming up at #IHEA2025 with several presentations and special interest group meetings.

We wish everyone attending a great conference!

Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂

The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…

📣 New paper alert 📣

Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.

Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

The first post will look at the experience of individuals with mental health problems in healthcare services. The second post will involve examining the healthcare use of informal carers.

Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road

📢Job vacancies!
We are looking to recruit 2 Research Associates in Health Economics.

Closing date: 14/07/25
👇
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Does the Informal Carer Identification Method Matter? Evidence from Self-Declaration and Time Diary Approaches - PharmacoEconomics Objectives Impacts on informal carers are increasingly being incorporated into cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness analyses. However, little is known about whether the method used to identify carer...

New in PharmacoEconomics - self-declaration misses 1 in 6 of unpaid carers compared to time diaries & may underestimate mental health impacts. Method matters when identifying informal carers!

Authored by: Sean Urwin, Charles Smith & @mattxsutton.bsky.social

👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our report on the UK labour market for health economists is now out

hesg.org.uk/download/emp...

Research Associate in Health Economics :Oxford Road

📣Job vacancy (Research Associate in Health Economics)!

The post holder will contribute to work exploring the role of primary care organisations on cancer diagnosis and detection in the NHS, with the fantastic @igorfrancetic.fyi.

Closing date: 02/06/2025

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Health Economics:Oxford Road

📢Job vacancy - Research Associate in Health Economics!
Come and work with us on an NIHR-funded grant looking at the impact of different models of integrating new or extended roles into primary care! Managed by @annawilding.bsky.social

Find out more here:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Many thanks also to Eli's examiners: Prof David Fielding and Prof Marc Suhrcke!

🥳🍾Congratulations to Eli Chavarria Pino who passed her viva today with minor corrections!!🎉🙌

Eli's thesis was titled: "Evaluating the effect of public health spending in low-income settings." She was supervised by: Laura Anselmi and @mattxsutton.bsky.social and funded by @nwssdtp.bsky.social

Finally from the HOPE contingent at #BJGPRC we have Dr Anna Wilding presenting her work looking at whether social prescribing referrals have reduced appointment pressures in primary care.
@annawilding.bsky.social

Also presenting at #BJGPRC this afternoon was Dr Ben Walker, exploring the "Relationship between expected GP income and job satisfaction: a repeated cross-sectional study"

As part of the 'Vulnerable Groups & Health Inequalities' session at #BJGPRC, Dr Efu Agboraw is presenting work exploring: "Inequality in the impact of the national social prescribing programme on population outcomes"

We open with Keynote Speaker
Kath Checkland.

🎉 Congratulations to @kathcheckland.bsky.social who has been appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator. Very well deserved! 🎉

Information about the award can be found below: https//www.nihr.ac...

Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study - BMC Health Services Research Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant reconfiguration of primary care systems internationally. For example, a large proportion of face-to-face appointments have been replaced by telephon...

New paper: "Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study" by PhD student T Zhao, supervised by Rachel Meacock and @mattxsutton.bsky.social

Read it here 👇
bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Last week we were pleased to have @petesivey.bsky.social
visit us and give a seminar presentation. Peter presented work looking at the impact of NHS surgical hub openings on the volume, wait times and length of stay outcomes at NHS trusts.

Today at the SPCR Bitesized Impact Showcase,
Steph Gillibrand will be presenting: "The Creative Community Output Collective: exploring local communities experience during the covid-19 pandemic in Greater Manchester"