🎉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".

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

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...

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".

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 🎉🥂

📣 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

📢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...

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...

📣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...

📢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...

🥳🍾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...

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"

Today @annawilding.bsky.social is speaking at "Social prescribing: equitable and effective health and wellbeing support". Anna will present work she undertook evaluating the impact of the national roll out of social prescribing link workers, together with @pmw777.bsky.social.

"To get Britain working we need to get Britain healthy" - our BMJ editorial today with ideas for government @lukemunford.bsky.social @healthequitynorth.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Today Rachel Meacock is presenting at the Northumbria University symposium on the 'Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care Research'. Rachel's talk is titled: "Reconciling the micro and macro impacts of health and care interventions".

🎉Congratulations to Liwei Mou who passed her PhD viva yesterday, with her thesis titled: "What is the solution to emergency department pressures?" Supervised by Will Whittaker & Shing Lau, and funded by @arc-gm.bsky.social Many thanks to her examiners @tommyallen87.bsky.social & Nils Gutacker

Today is the start of the Bristol #HESG conference, with many HOPE papers on the schedule! First up, a paper by @annawilding.bsky.social titled: "Have social prescribing referrals reduced appointment pressures on primary care? Evidence from Electronic Healthcare Records", discussed by Paolo Candio

New publication from Shaolin Wang, Shing Lau, @mattxsutton.bsky.social, Michael Anderson, Laura Anselmi & colleagues. Exploring inequalities in the prevalence of 205 conditions by the setting of recording in England. Read it here 👇 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

And there's more good news! Yuqi Zhang passed her PhD viva yesterday, with her thesis titled: "Strengthening primary care and integrated care for patients with multi-morbidity in China". Yuqi was supervised by Laura Anselmi, Jonny Stokes, Pete Bower and Jin Xu (from Peking University)

#ARCadvent day 6️⃣: Coastal, rural & areas in the North of England are less able to withstand/recover from adverse events, according to research led by academics @healthequitynorth.bsky.social, The University of Manchester, @hope-uom.bsky.social & @arc-gm.bsky.social arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...

🎉Congratulations to Yao Wei for passing his viva!🎉 His PhD is on “Impact of Greater Manchester Devolution on Population Health” with proud supervisors: @mattxsutton.bsky.social, Laura Anselmi & @lukemunford.bsky.social, funded by @arc-gm.bsky.social Thanks to Nigel Rice & Sean Urwin for examining.