The Health and Care Systems network explores health and care challenges from a whole systems perspective. Using expertise from across the Business school, Science, and Humanities we look at the people, technologies, processes, organisational and societal factors that influence how health and care services are designed, planned, managed, and evaluated. We have teams that work in areas such as: health service evaluation and redesign; implementation science; improvement science; decision science; systems modelling and health economics.

We work closely with essential key partners including NHS (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Education for Scotland), Health and Social Care Partnerships, The Mental Health Foundation, The Digital Health and Care Institute, Scottish Government, the UK Department of Health and Social Care, as well as partners in global health such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, the International Decision Support Initiative, and policymakers in different countries globally.

Example project areas include but are not exclusive to:

1 – Exploring the use of bar code scanning in community pharmacy

2 – Exploring the implementation and integration of robotic technologies in community pharmacy

3 - Evaluation of the implementation and integration of pharmacy teams in the GP Practice setting

4 – Various programmes of work in the development and early testing of decision support technologies in Primary and Secondary care to aid safe and appropriate prescribing

5 – Exploring the capabilities of collecting and utilising Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) data in clinical cancer care to aid shared decision making

6 – Exploring improving efficiency and whole system effectiveness of patient pathways in the Scottish NHS

7 – Economic evaluation and projecting the health and equity impacts of introducing new interventions, technologies, and policies in a health system, both in the UK and globally, and including technologies such as antibiotics and vaccines.

8 ­– Evaluation of complex interventions and programmes

9 – Exploring developing and strengthening health systems to reach difficult-to-reach populations in low- and middle-income countries using systems thinking.

10 – Exploring global health system and donor financing mechanisms.

11—Improving health and social care systems in the context of Covid-19, such as using systems simulation methodology to analyse policies and intervention to reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality in nursing homes.