Dr Dave Worthington
Senior Lecturer in Operational Research/Management Science
- Broad experience of applications of OR and Statistics in Healthcare, including: evaluating immunisation strategies in Tanzania, inpatient costing for hospital trusts, impact of rurality on access to and cost of services, performance improvement, workforce planning, waiting list management, and improving patient flows in hospitals and primary care
- Special interest and expertise in appropriate use of stochastic models (e.g. queueing models and simulation models) to reduce congestion in accessing healthcare, including outpatient clinics, hospital waiting lists, walk-in centres and A&E
- Member of Lancaster University Management School ‘s ‘Health Systems Research Group’, providing access to wide range of modelling expertise both in and outside healthcare setting (see http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/ManSci/Research/ResGroups/hsrc/ for further information).
- Willing to identify and collaborate on interesting new problems or new slants on established problems – via fact-finding meetings, MSc students projects, PhD research, funded research or consultancy projects
Affiliation
University of Lancaster, School of Management
Area
Research
Phone
01524 593872
Requirements
- Others in healthcare, industry and research interested to identify and collaborate on interesting new problems or new slants on established problems