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Profiles
Dr Alex Gibson
Senior Research Fellow
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Health
Research
Research
Research interests
A quantitative analyst experienced in a wide range of multivariate and mixed effects modelling techniques, my research has focused on the use of large and complex datasets to assess the socio-economic characteristics and public service needs of local populations and the extent to which those needs are being met. Recent work has focused on health, education and children’s services, including as technical lead on the development of the MHCLG children’s services resource allocation model for English local authorities and contributing key evidential chapters to the Chief Medical Officer’s recent annual report on Coastal Health.Grants & contracts
Sheaff, R., Allen, P., Asthana, S., Clark, J., Exworthy, M., Gibson, A., Mannion, R., Miller, R. (2019-2022) Commissioning, Co-commissioning and Being Commissioned; the NHS and Third Sector Organisations. NIHR/HSRD (18/92 Evaluating approaches to health and care services commissioning and provision with the third sector in the UK).
Ranasinghe, J., Gibson, A., Bywaters, P., Stephenson, J. (2018-20) Development of a Person-based Children’s Social Services Funding Formula. MHCLG & DfE.
Gibson A (2016-17) Police Workforce Simulation Model. Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner.
Asthana S, Gibson A, & Hewson P (2016) Modelling demand, risk andresources for police forces in England and Wales: is there are rural dimension?National Rural Crime Network.
Sheaff R, Allen P, Boiko O, Mannion R, Asthana S, Gibson A & Halliday, J (2015-2017) Diverse Healthcare Providers: Behaviour inresponse to commissioners, patients and innovations, National Institute ofHealth Research / Policy Research Programme.
Asthana S, Gibson A, Bailey T, Hewson P, Moon G & Dibbens C (2011-2014) Equity of access to cardiac and mentalhealth services in England. National Institute of Health Research / HealthServices Research Programme.
Gibson,A. & Hewson, P. (2013) 2011-12 Active People Survey: Small Area Estimation of SportsParticipation. Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
GibsonA & Hewson P (2011) Small Area Estimation of Literacy and Numeracy Skills; 2010 Skills forLife Survey. Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.S. Asthana, A. Gibson, T. Bailey, P. Hewson, C. Dibben, G. Moon (2011) Equity of Access to Cardiac and Mental Health Services in England. NIHR (Health Services Research Programme).
A. Gibson & P. Hewson (2011) Local Area Modelling of the 2011 Skills for Life survey. TNS-BMRB and Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
S. Asthana , A. Gibson, J. Halliday & P. Hewson (2008) Resource Allocation in Statutory Service Provision: an Assessment of the Police and Fire Formulae. Rural Services Partnership.
S. Asthana , A. Gibson, T. Bailey & C. Dibbens (2008) Developing a resource allocation formula at General Practice level based on individual patient characteristics (Person-Based Resource Allocation): Mental Health. Department of Health.
A . Gibson & S. Asthana. (2008) Resource Allocation through the Local Government Finance Settlement: How Do Rural Areas Fare? Rural Services Partnership.
A. Gibson & P. Hewson. (2008) Small Area Estimation (LA-level) using Taking Part Survey data. British Market Research Bureau.
S. Asthana , A. Gibson, T. Bailey, C. Dibbens (2007) The feasibility of developing an approach to Person Based Resource Allocation (PBRA) based on epidemiological data . Department of Health.
A . Gibson & S. Asthana (2007) NHS resource allocation: does West Sussex get its ‘fair share’? West Sussex County Council.
A . Gibson, S. Asthana, & J. Flowers (2007) A review of the weighted capitation formula and its funding impact on Primary Care Trusts in the East of England SHA. East of England Strategic Health Authority.
A. Gibson (2006) North Devon Housing Survey, North Devon District Council.
A. Gibson (2005) Devon Youth Offending Information System (YOIS) Data: Analysis of Reprimand Data, Exeter Youth Offending Team.
A . Gibson & T. Bailey (2004) Geodemographic Mapping of the Skills for Life Survey Results to Local Areas, Department for Education and Skills.
S. Asthana, P. Brigham, J. Halliday, A. Gibson, I. Mackenzie, J. Dicker, G. Floyd, & G. Moon (2001) Review of the Effectiveness of measuring Rural Deprivation. South West Public Health Observatory.
S. Asthana, A. Gibson, G. Moon, P. Brigham & J. Halliday (2001) Health Resource Allocation: What Case can be made for Rurality? Rural Health Allocations Forum.
S. Asthana, A. Gibson, J. Halliday, J. Dixon & G. Moon (2000) Evaluation of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Action Zone.
S. Asthana, G. Moon, J. Dicker & A. Gibson (1999). Inequalities in Health Service Utilization at the General Practice Level. Economic and Social Research Council.
A . Gibson, S. Asthana & E. Wragg (1997) Parental Choice, Selection by Ability and a ‘Free Market’ in Education: Raising Educational Standards or the Social Polarization of Schools? The Nuffield Foundation.
S. Asthana and A. Gibson (1996) GP Fundholding and the Provision of Primary Health Care: A Socio-Spatial Analysis. University of Plymouth.
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'Averting a public health crisis in England’s coastal communities: a call for public health research and policy' Journal of Public Health , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Understanding Resource Allocation in social care for frail older people: lessons from a national survey' Journal of Long-Term Care Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Repositioning the Boundaries between Public and Private Healthcare Providers in the English NHS' Journal of Health Organization and Management (7 / 8) , DOI Open access
(2018) 'The National Health Service (NHS) in 'crisis': the role played by a shift from horizontal to vertical principles of equity' Health Economics, Policy and Law 1-17 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Variation in referral and access to new psychological therapy services by age: an empirical quantitative study' British Journal of General Practice 67, (660) e453-e459 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Inequity in cardiovascular care in the English National Health Service (NHS): a scoping review of the literature' Health & Social Care in the Community , DOI Open access
(2016) 'A qualitative study of diverse providers' behaviour in response to commissioners, patients and innovators in England: research protocol' BMJ Open , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Equity of utilisation of cardiovascular care and mental health services in England: a cohort-based cross-sectional study using small-area estimation' Health Services and Delivery Research 4, (14) 1-712 , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Values associated with public involvement in health and social care research: a narrative review' Health Expectations 18, (5) 661-675 , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Policy Analytics Need More Than A Spreadsheet: A case study in funding formulae' Annals of Operational Research , DOI
(2013) 'Playing with fire: Limitations of the Big Society for an emergency service' Public Policy and Administration 28, (3) 290-305 Publisher Site
(2013) 'Acute care: The real reason for 'failing' hospitals' Health Serv J 123, (6343) 20-22
(2012) 'The medicalisation of health inequalities and the English NHS: the role of resource allocation' Health Economics, Policy and Law , DOI
(2012) 'A Tangled Web: Complexity and Inequality in the English Local Government Finance Settlement' Local Government Studies 38, (3) 301-319 , DOI
(2011) 'Setting health care capitations through diagnosis-based risk adjustment: a suitable model for the English NHS' Health Policy 101, , DOI
(2011) 'General practitioner commissioning consortia and budgetary risk: evidence from the modelling of ‘fair share’ practice budgets for mental health' Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 16, (2) 95-101 , DOI
(2011) 'Devolved commissioning, population size and budgetary risk: evidence from the modelling of ‘fair share’ practice budgets for mental health' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 16, (2) 95-101
(2011) 'Resource allocation for English local government: a critique of the four block model' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 174, (3) 1-18
(2011) 'Setting health care capitations through diagnosis-based risk adjustment: a suitable model for the English NHS?' Health Policy 101, (2) 133-139
(2011) 'General practitioner commissioning consortia and budgetary risk: evidence from the modelling of ‘fair share’practice budgets for mental health' Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 16, 95-101
(2011) 'Resource Allocation for English Local Government: A Critique of the Four-Block Model' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society 174, (3) 529-546 , DOI
(2009) 'Social exclusion and social justice: a rural perspective on resource allocation' Policy and Politics 37, (2) 201-214 , DOI
(2008) 'Deprivation, demography, and the distribution of general practice:' British Journal of General Practice 58, (555) 720-726 , DOI
(2008) 'Deprivation, demography and the distribution of general practice: challenging the conventional wisdom of inverse care' British Journal of General Practice 58, (555) 718-727
(2008) 'Health care equity, health equity and resource allocation: towards a normative approach to achieving the core principles of the NHS' Radical Statistics 96, 6-26
(2006) 'A formula for unfairness' Health Serv J 116, (6032) 18-19
(2005) 'Rationing in response to NHS deficits: rural patients are likely to be affected most' British Medical Journal 331, (7530) 1472-1472
(2004) 'The demographic and social class basis of inequality in self reported morbidity: an exploration using the Health Survey for England' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58, (4) 303-307
(2004) 'The pursuit of equity in NHS resource allocation: should morbidity replace utilisation as the basis for setting health care capitations?' Social Science & Medicine 58, (3) 539-551
(2003) 'Allocating resources for health and social care: the significance of rurality' Health & Social Care in the Community 11, (6) 486-493
(2002) 'Understanding social polarization: A possible research agenda' Research Papers in Education 17, (4) 414-415
(2002) 'Geographies of need and the new NHS: methodological issues in the definition and measurement of the health needs of local populations' Health & Place 8, (1) 47-60
(2000) 'What's in a number? Commentary on Gorard and Fitz's ‘Investigating the determinants of segregation between schools’' Research Papers in Education 15, (2) 133-153 , DOI
(2000) 'Estimating the Socioeconomic Characteristics of School Populations with the Aid of Pupil Postcodes and Small-Area Census Data: An Appraisal' Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 32, (7) 1267-1285 , DOI
(2000) 'Local Markets and the Polarization of Public‐Sector Schools in England and Wales' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 25, (3) 303-319 , DOI
(1999) 'The geography of fundholding in southwest England: implications for the evolution of primary care groups' Health & Place 5, (4) 271-278 , DOI
(1998) 'Schools, Pupils and Examination Results: contextualising school ‘performance’' British Educational Research Journal 24, (3) 269-282 , DOI
(1998) 'School Performance, School Effectiveness and the 1997 White Paper' Oxford Review of Education 24, (2) 195-210 , DOI
(1995) 'Regional prices and market regions: the evolution of the early modern Scottish grain market' The Economic History Review 48, (2) 258-282 , DOI
(1990) 'Proletarianization? The transition to full-time labour on a Scottish estate, 1723–1787' Continuity and Change 5, (3) 357-389 , DOI
(1990) 'Territorial continuity and the administrative division of Lochtayside, 1769' Scottish Geographical Magazine 106, (3) 174-185 , DOI
(1988) 'Territorial organization and land assessment in Highland Perthshire. Ph.D. thesis'
Chapters
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2021). Analysis of Coastal health outcomes. In Whitty, C and Loveless, B (eds). Chief Medical Officer Annual Report, 2021: Health in Coastal Communities, pp 189-208.
Reports
(2018) Diverse Healthcare Providers: Behaviour in response to commissioners, patients and innovations. National Institute for Health Research Policy Research Programme Open access
(2016) Police Funding Arrangements in Engand and Wales: Report to the NRCN. National Rural Crime Network Open access
(2009) Developing a Person Based Resource Allocation Formula for Setting Practice-Level Mental Health Budgets: 2009/10 and 2010/11. Department of Health, Policy Research Programme
(2009) Resource Allocation in Statutory Service provision: an assessment of the police and fire formulae. Rural Services Partnership
(2008) Needs based funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement: A Critique. Rural Services Partnership RAE Consulting
(2008) Person Based Resource Allocation (PBRA): The Feasibility of Developing a Need-Based Approach to PBRA. Department of Health, Policy Research Programme