Qualifications
Senior lecturer in health service research:
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Alberta Heritage Visiting Scientist and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta 1997-2001
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Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1982
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MA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge 1978
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MBChB in Medicine, University of Birmingham 1977
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BA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
Biography
Jonathan’s career has considerable breadth as well as depth
2007 to date: Senior lecturer, health services research, Birmingham University Medical School
2008 to date: Chair, Education for Health
2000 to date: Director, Policy. Development. Partnership
2010 to 2011: Clinical director, Humana Europe
2003 to 2007: Chair, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust
2002 to 2003: Chair, S Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust
2001 to 2003: Consultant to Carousel (charity for people with learning difficulties)
1993 to 2007: Senior Fellow, Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham University
1990 to 1993: Independent Medical Advisor, Leicestershire Family Health Services Authority
1987 to 1991: Part-time lecturer in general practice, University of Leicester
1982 to 1991: Principal in general practice in Bulkington, North Warwickshire
1977 to 1982: Junior medical training jobs (West Midlands, Sheffield, Cambridge)
Teaching
Postgraduate supervision
Jonathan supervises several postgraduate students, and is always interested in helping students studying in the areas of:
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Health services management, policy, and practice
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Change in the NHS
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The clinical/managerial interface in health care
If you are interesting in any of these areas please contact Jonathan using his contact details
Research
RESEARCH THEMES
Health services management, policy, and practice
Knowledge transfer involving clinicians
‘Anthropology’ and organisational change in the NHS
The clinical/managerial interface in health care
The primary/secondary care interface
Comparative health care in the developed world
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Theme 1 of the Birmingham and the Black Country Collaborations in Leadership for Applied Health research and Care (CLAHRC)
PI of a theme exploring service redesign in the acute sector of the NHS in response to pressures to change. It is developing new, holistic instruments combining qualitative and quantitative methods that will be applicable to service change in any health organisation and possibly even more widely
Senior Fellow at HSMC
Many years and projects spent exploring policy developments across the NHS and their implications for care, costs, and professional roles. Projects have looked at areas as diverse as the purchaser/provider split, the role of primary care, the impact of GP fundholding, the development of PCG/PCTs, etc
Other activities
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Consultant Director for 2020Health - Lead investigator for a project looking at the links between health, disease, and unemployment, now linked to Dame Carol Black’s work on Wellness
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Senior Research Fellow for The Health Foundation - Part of a team evaluating the whole suite of THF Leadership programmes, drawing out lessons specific to those programmes, and of relevance to the concept of leadership and its development
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Chair of Education for Health since 2008: E4H is a charity providing training in the UK and abroad for the management of long term conditions such as COPD, heart disease, diabetes, and many others
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Chairman of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust (2003-2007)
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Chairman of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust (2002-2003)
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Non-executive Director of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust (1997-2002)
Publications
Eastaugh J and Shapiro J (2010) Any future for the non-foundations? Health Service Journal, 4 November: 18-19
Shapiro J (2010) The future of the NHS (ed.) Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, No 4: 316
Shapiro J (2010) The NHS: the story so far (1948–2010) Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, No 3: 336–8
Shapiro J, Hill E et al (2010) Health, disease, & unemployment: The Bermuda Triangle of Society, London: 2020Health
Hardacre J, Shapiro J, et al (2010) What’s leadership got to do with it? Exploring links between quality improvement and leadership in the NHS, London: The Health Foundation London
Shapiro J (2009) Practice based Commissioning: not what it says on the tin, London:2020Health
Shapiro J (2005) Can Labour take the NHS to market? British Medical Journal 331:359
Shapiro J & Smith S (2003) Lessons for the NHS from Kaiser Permanente British Medical Journal; 327:1241-1242