Team - Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation

Our team

The Centre has a diverse mix of staff and associates, including:

Economists & operational researchers on secondment from the Department of Health.
Academic researchers at the University of Oxford.
Academic associates from a wide range of respected UK institutions.

Director

Barry McCormick CBE Ph.D. is Director of the Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He was Chief Economist and Director of Analysis in the Department of Health 2002-2010. His present interests include: conventional issues in healthcare policy such as health care reform, how to drive healthcare quality and meeting the current funding challenge, but also analysis of how to develop healthcare for deprived communities and providing healthcare for homeless persons. Current work includes analysis of emergency care expenditure, hospital resource allocation decisions, and healthcare regulation.

He was Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton from 1991 to 2002, and an academic consultant to the Treasury from 2000 to 2002. He served on the Editorial Board of Economic Journal Conference Volume from 1992 to 1995, was the founding editor of the Economic Review, 1983-92, and between 2004-9 was a Council / Executive Committee member of the Royal Economic Society. He has published extensively in journals including Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Obesity Reviews, and the European Economic Review. He co-authored Immigration Policy and the Welfare System (OUP 2002). He received his degrees from Manchester University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Harkness Commonwealth Fellow.

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Centre project manager

Alistair Rose BA MSc has degrees in economics from the Universities of Nottingham and York. He is on secondment from the Department of Health where he has been an economic adviser for more than a decade. He has specialised in areas of NHS finance and was co-author of Explaining NHS deficits, 2003/4 to 2005/6. He is currently leading on two projects concerned with the regulation of health and social care staff, and undertakes general resource planning within CHSEO.

Project leads

Jenny Ball BSc MSc graduated with a First in Mathematics with Business Studies from the University of Surrey in 1999. She went on to study for an MSc in Operational Research at the LSE, graduating in 2000. Jenny spent the first 5 years of her working life as a credit risk analyst with Barclays Bank. She joined the Civil Service in early 2007, first at the Department for Work and Pensions and later the Department of Health. She has provided operational research analysis in a number of areas including estates planning, welfare reform, vCJD, swine flu and maternity services. Since joining the Centre she has worked on a study to consider the feasibility of measuring the cost-effectiveness of stroke services in London and is currently working on a project concerned with the regulation of professionals in health and social care.

Jonathan White MA (Cantab) graduated in 2005 with a First in Economics from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He joined the Civil Service Fast Stream in 2006 at the Food Standards Agency, where he provided economic advice and cost-benefit analysis on nutrition policy. In 2007, he moved to the Department of Health, where he has produced economic analysis on diverse issues such as the costs and benefits of alcohol/tobacco regulation taxation and pricing, regression-based standardisation of Primary Care Trust performance, the NHS cost of homelessness, the NHS cost of cancer follow-up and efficiency in home oxygen prescribing. Jonathan's current portfolio of research includes the use of levies for funding healthcare education and training, the link between all cause mortality and HSMRs, and an update to earlier work on homelessness. He also designed this website and is responsible for maintaining it.

Peter-Sam Hill BSc MSc completed a BSc in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Southampton in 2007 followed by an MSc in Development Economics and Policy at the University of Manchester the next year. In 2009, he joined the Civil Service Fast Stream at the Department of Health where he has provided economic advice on areas including professional regulation, pathology reconfiguration and healthcare for homeless and deprived populations. He is currently involved in projects identifying how people living in deprived areas use the health service differently and finding predictors of admission method for some acute conditions.

Project assistant

Chris Eleftheriades BA MSc completed a BA in Economics at Durham University in 2009 and in 2012 graduated with distinction in MSc Development Economics at the University of York. Chris joined the Civil Service Fast Stream at the Department of Health in 2011, where he has provided economic advice on issues relating to social care policy, finance and funding reform.

Visiting fellow

Stuart Redding Ph.D. studied economics at the University of Southampton, where he completed a BSc, an MSc and a PhD. His thesis is a theoretical and empirical analysis of How industrial, occupational and racial structure contribute to spatial variation in unemployment in England and Wales. Since that was completed in May 2006 he has worked mainly in academia concentrating on labour market and healthcare issues and has also contributed to Department of Health projects on social care and inequalities.

Administration manager

Annette Hueppauff has been an Executive PA in London since her arrival to the UK in 1996. She recently joined the Centre and provides administrative input covering the Centre's day to day running and is personal assistant to the Director. She also provides selected financial duties, administration of contracts for seconded staff and other paperwork in collaboration with the Finance Officer at the University of Oxford, alongside acting as a central point of contact.