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Professor Malcolm David Whitfield
PhD, MBA, RGN, RMN
Phone 0114 2255453
E-mail m.whitfield@shu.ac.uk
Malcolm Whitfield is a Professor of Health Economics and Management and Director of the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield Hallam University.
Over the last 35 years Malcolm has developed a comprehensive CV in the design, development and delivery of healthcare at both a system and an operational level. He has a strong track record of consistency and success as a clinician, a manager, a researcher, a teacher and a management consultant at the highest levels both nationally and internationally.
As a clinician he reached the position of Chief Nurse / Director of Nursing in the UK NHS, in University based healthcare organisations. As a manager he held executive level positions in Acute Hospital, Primary Care and Mental Health organisations. As a researcher he has won international research grants in excess of £2 million, published numerous scientific journal articles and delivered several papers to international scientific conferences. As a teacher he has developed and run innovative leading edge Masters courses in Health Economics, Management and Medical and Health Sciences and delivered lectures as a visiting academic in numerous Universities both within the UK around the world.
As a management consultant he has carried out a wide range of economic evaluations, service re-design studies, health service reviews (including ministerial reviews), and developed and ran leadership programmes for the top managers in six European Countries including a programme for the top 26 managers in Central Europe. (Participants included ministers of health and national directors of sickness funds, public health schools and University Hospitals etc).
Malcolm's clinical, managerial and academic careers have all moved him incrementally towards his main area of expertise, which lies in the pragmatic use of research evidence to solve operational and systemic problems in the delivery of healthcare.
He is particularly focused on developing the interface between theory and practice in health service delivery and the optimization of care delivery in terms of both cost and clinical effectiveness. His recent research activities are focused on applying this approach to explore the economic arguments for investment in public health programs and the clinical effectiveness of prevention, early intervention and systematic treatment of early stage disease.
Malcolm's key strength lies in the breadth of his expertise in the field of health. He has significant credibility as a clinician, manager, policy analyst and researcher and can debate these issues at the highest levels internationally; whilst at the same time having considerable leadership attributes in each of these fields.
He has a detailed understanding of the complexity of health and healthcare delivery, both nationally and internationally, and is able to accurately diagnose systemic and operational problems in health service delivery and bring to bear research-based approaches to resolving them.
This strength has manifested itself in his ability to orchestrate multi-disciplinary approaches to research and development in the field of health, with an increasingly strong emphasis on service design and re-engineering in the light of a rapidly changing operating environment.
This breadth and international perspective is demonstrated in the fact that Malcolm has published widely in the fields of health informatics, economic evaluation, costing / case mix, clinical effectiveness, chronic disease management, the economics of public health interventions and comparative financing in healthcare, with significant publications in healthcare management in Europe (36 publications including two best selling peer reviewed books on managing healthcare in Europe).
International awards
- In 2000 Malcolm was awarded a 600-year 'Centenary' gold medal from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, for Scientific Achievement in the field of Public Health.
- In 2007 Malcolm was cited in the Marquis publication 'Who's Who in the World' as an innovator in medical education.
- In 2008 Malcolm was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Public Health at National School of Public Health and Health Services Management Bucharest Romania
- In 2008 Malcolm was appointed as a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at The Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Research outputs: key publications since 2001
Research reports
Whitfield, A cost and clinical effectiveness evaluation of a 'Disease Management Programme' for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) ScHARR Report Series 17, University of Sheffield. ISBN 1 900 752 611, 2007
Refereed journal papers
Richards N, Harris K, Whitfield MD et al. The impact of population-based identification of chronic kidney disease using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) reporting. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2007) 0: 1-6 doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfm839
Richards N, Harris K, Whitfield MD et al, Primary care-based disease management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) reporting, improves patient outcomes. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2007) 0: 1-7 doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfm857
Whitfield M, Gillett M, Holmes M, Ogden E, Predicting the impact of population level risk reduction in cardio-vascular disease and stroke on acute hospital admission rates over a five year period - a pilot study. Public Health 2006 120 1140-1148
Walters SJ, Whitfield M, Akehurst R.L, Chilcott J.B. Economic Implications of the Use of basiliximab versus placebo in addition to triple immunosuppressive therapy for the prevention of acute cellular rejection in renal allograft recipients - a United Kingdom perspective. Pharmacoeconomics. 2003; 21(2): 129-38.
Otok R, Whitfield M. Partners two. (Ogolnopolski Przeglad Medyczny). J Polish Medical Review (OPM). 2003: June; 37.
Otok R, Whitfield M. A First Class Service. (Ogolnopolski Przeglad Medyczny) J Polish Medical Review (OPM). 2003: May: 39
Otok R, Whitfield M, Quo vadis NHS? J Polish Medical Review (OPM) Ogolnopolski Przeglad Medyczny, pp: 63 April 2003
Otok R, Whitfield M. Partnership in healthcare (Ogolnopolski Przeglad Medyczny). J Polish Medical Review (OPM). 2003: March; 39:41.
Kautsch M, Whitfield M, Wieckiewicz M. Pilot analysis of hospital cost and activity in the UK and Poland. Zdrowie i Zarządzanie. 2003 (1); 67-70.
Whitfield M, Smith A. Changing definitions of Public Health in the UK-their implications on public health education in practice. Zdrowie Publ (Public Health). 2002: 112(2); 156-61
Smith A, Giles M, Whitfield M, Hind D. Defining generic public health skills - The context and the literature. Zdrowie Publ (Public Health). 2002: 112(2); 156-161
Kautsch M, Whitfield M. Effectiveness in Health Care. J Polish Medical Review (OPM) Ogolnopolski Przeglad Medyczny. 2002: pp: August; 40-1.
Kaltenhaler E, Whitfield M. UK, USA and Canada: how do their pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence data compare?. The Journal of Wound Care. 2001: 10: (1); 530 - 5.
Walters S.J, Whitfield M, Akehurst R.L, Chilcott J.B. Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of Simulect prophylaxis in renal transplant recipients.Transplantation Proceedings. 2001:33 (7-8); 3187 - 91.
Kautsch M, Whitfield M. British experience: Is the market harmful to health? (Doswiadczenia Brytyjczykow: Rynek szkodzi zdrowiu?) Sluzba Zdrowia. 2001: 26 Apr. - 7 May; 32-5.
Kautsch M, Whitfield M. How much do the medical services cost? (Ile kosztuja swiadczenia medyczne?) Służba Zdrowia. 2001: 21-28 Jun; 48-50
Whitfield M, Deja R. A threat to the quality of health care: Burn-out syndrome (Zagrozenie dla jakosci opieki zdrowotnej: Zespol wypalenia) Sluzba Zdrowia. 2001: 15-19 Nov; 88-89.
Books
Whitfield M, Kautsch M, Klich J. Ed. Managing Health Services in Poland. Jagiellonian University Press. 2000: ISBN 83-233-1419-5
Kautsch M, Whitfield M, Klich J. Ed. Zarzadzanie opieka Zdrowotna. Jagiellonian University Press, 2000: ISBN 83-233-1460-0
Book chapters
Kautsch M, Whitfield M. Reporting systems in Poland and the UK on quality of management. 8th National Conference: Quality in Health Care, Krakow, Poland, 2003; 169 - 175
Whitfield M. Managing Quality in Health Care - a Managers Perspective. 4th National Conference: Quality in Health Care Krakow, Poland 1999; 138 - 143
Reports and other publications
Whitfield M, Kozierkiewicz A, Kautsch M, Esmonde L. Elective surgery: a closer look at costs in 10 European Countries. Hospital Healthcare Europe, The Official HOPE Reference Book. (2002/2003) Campden Publishing London.
Whitfield M, Kozierkiewicz A, (2002/2003) Elective Surgery - defining costs in the emerging European market. Private Hospital Healthcare Europe, The Official HOPE Reference Book. (2002/2003) Campden Publishing London.
Whitfield M, Kautsch M, Hind D. Hospital cost and activity data: towards a hospital information database, Hospital Healthcare Europe, The Official HOPE Reference Book. (2001/2002): Campden Publishing London.
Whitfield M, Gerrish K. A review of Community Nursing in Doncaster West PCT (The modernisation agenda, current position, resource allocation and community involvement) 2001: ScHARR Report Series 3, University of Sheffield ISBN 1 900 752 30 1
National and international conference presentations
The invest to save argument for community rehabilitation services, Community Rehabilitation Forum, University of Sheffield, sponsored by the Community Rehabilitation Network, 20 September 2007
The primary care management of Chronic Kidney Disease, Renal Network Conference, Edgebaston Solihull, 19 September 2007
Predicting the impact of public health interventions in cardio-vascular disease on the number and cost of acute hospital admissions over a five year period, 6th World Congress on Health Economics, Copenhahagen, sponsored by iHEA, 8 - 11 July 2007
The economic case for investment in public health, 14th annual Public Health Forum, The International Centre, Phoneford, sponsored by UKPHA, 14 - 15 March 2006
Fourth European Conference on Health Economics, Colledge Des Economistes De La Sante, sponsored by the French Department of Health, 7 - 10 July 2002
Governance in Health Systems, 'Political Science in Europe: The state of the discipline, issues of governance and legitimacy.' Wawel Castle - Krakow, sponsored by The European Political Science Network (epsNet), 21 - 23 May 2002
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