Professor Ala Szczepura

Ala Szczepura

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Professor of Health Services Research

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Health Sciences
Warwick Medical School
Social Studies Building
Main Campus
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 7652 2958
Fax: 024 7652 4963
Email: Ala.Szczepura@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


  • Economic evaluation of clinical interventions and of service organisation
  • Primary care
  • Health technology assessment methodologies

BACKGROUND


Professor Szczepura has over 20 years expertise in policy research and the organisation and management of health care. She has published widely in the area of economic evaluation of interventions and service organisation, and has also been actively involved in the NHS R&D programme since its inception. She has specific research expertise in health technology assessment (HTA); service delivery, organisation and implementation issues; and evaluation of new and emerging technologies. National roles include membership of: the Research Commissioning Board for the NHS HTA Programme; the Steering Group for the NHS Technology Horizon Scanning project; and the NIHR Senior Scholarship Panel. She was previously Director of the NHS fast track graduate Management Training Scheme in Warwick Business School. Professor Szczepura?s current research interests include: more cost-effective delivery of care for patients with chronic conditions; re-engineering of the hospital-primary care interface; research focused on care homes, including models of nursing in-reach, care staff training and skill-mix, workload measurement, and indicators of prescribing and medicines management; and evaluation of new rapid tests for MRSA, C. difficile, TB, STIs, and prenatal diagnosis. She also has a long-standing interest in provision of services to meet the needs of diverse populations. She is co-Director of the UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health and Diversity and lead for the Specialist Collection NHS Evidence ? Ethnicity & Health, National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE). She is a Visiting Professor at The University of the West of England, Bristol.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • USEFIL: Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living, with Professor Christopher J James, WMG, Professor Ala K Szczepura - Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: EU, Project Start Date: 01/07/2011 Project End Date: 30/06/2014

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Szczepura, A., Wild, D. and Nelson, S.(2011) 'Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care' BMC Geriatric 11 (1), (1471-2318) [article]
  • French, D.P., et al.(2011) 'A cluster randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a brief walking intervention delivered in primary care : study protocol' BMC Family Practice 12 (1), (1471-2296) [article]
  • Szczepura, A.(2011) 'Nutrition in an ethnically diverse society: what are some of the key challenges?' Proceedings Of The Nutrition Society 70 (2), 252 - 262 (0029-6651) [article]
  • Szczepura, A., Osipenko, L. and Freeman, K.(2011) 'A new fetal RHD genotyping test : costs and benefits of mass testing to target antenatal anti-D prophylaxis in England and Wales' BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 11 (1), (1471-2393) [article]
  • Price, C., Szczepura, A., Gumber, A. and Patnick, J.(2010) 'Comparison of breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns in a common cohort of South Asian women in England' BMC Health Services Research 10 103 (1472-6963) [article]

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