Research conversation: Exploring how to reduce treatments that don’t work or aren’t cost-effective

About the event

Patients are having surgery in the NHS even when its benefits don’t outweigh the risks and resources used to deliver it. Researchers have invested lots of energy into spotting and reducing care that doesn’t work or isn’t cost-effective.

During this research conversation Joel Glynn, a Senior Research Associate in Health Economics at the University of Bristol, will talk about a project exploring how the health service could reduce the provision of treatments that don’t work or aren’t cost-effective.

The aim of this project was to explore if resources, such as the surgeons’ time, are put to better use when these less effective types of surgery are reduced.

Our speaker

As a health economist, Joel’s research focuses on how to best use NHS resources to maximise the health and wellbeing of our country.

Over the past six years he has mostly used health data from hospitals and GP practices to explore the use of less effective treatments and explore health inequalities.

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