Dr Philip Kinghorn

Philip Kinghorn

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7620
Email
p.kinghorn@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@philkinghorn
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Address
Health Economics Unit
Department of Applied Health Sciences
IOEM Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Philip is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation.  In particular, Philip is interested in the inclusion of broader outcomes within economic evaluations of health and social care interventions and the use of the capability approach within health economics.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-1962

Qualifications

  • Phd in Health Economics (2010), University of East Anglia
  • MA in Economics (2004), University of East Anglia
  • BA (Hons) in Economics & Politics (2003), University of East Anglia

Biography

Philip was awarded his PhD in Health Economics in 2010 by the University of East Anglia. The PhD explored the use of the Capability Approach to assess and value quality of life, using chronic pain as a case study.

In 2010, Philip took up a post as a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, initially working on an NIHR funded and MRC managed project to value patients’ experiences of receiving health care services.

In 2012 Philip moved to the Health Economics Unit at the University of Birmingham to work on a European Research Council funded project relating to end of life care (EconEndLife).  With the EconEndLife project concluding in 2015, Philip began an MRC funded project to establish a monetary threshold for ICECAP in the context of public health and social care in the spring of 2016. The project was funded as a New Investigator Grant.

More recently, Philip has been working on several research projects relating to social care.

Philip has experience of conducting qualitative research, systematic reviews and of using online survey methods.  

Teaching

Philip is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Current

  • Lecturing on the following courses/programmes: MSc Health Economics and Health Policy; Masters in Public Health (MPH); Undergraduate Economics
  • Dissertation Supervision: MSc Health Economics & Health Policy
  • Module Coordinator: Undergraduate Health Economics (delivered in partnership with Birmingham Business School); Introduction to Health Economics (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy)

Previous

  • Module Co-Coordinator: Policy and Economics of Healthcare Delivery (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy).
  • Lecturer: Risk Management Module from the MSc in Occupational Health
  • Undergraduate & postgraduate microeconomics (lectures & tutorials)

Postgraduate supervision

Current

  • Lead supervisor: Gareth Hooper (Start date: September 2022).  Gareth’s PhD is exploring the economic evidence base for interventions to manage frailty.

Previous

  • Co-Supervisor for Alastair Canaway's PhD, "Capturing Family Benefits of End of Life Care for use in Economic Evaluation".  Graduated Winter 2015.
  • Co-supervisor for Chidubem Ogwulu’s PhD, “Developing and piloting approaches for the valuation of outcomes associated with sexually transmitted infections in order to construct quality adjusted life years (QALYs) for use in economic evaluation”.  Graduated Winter 2018.
  • Co-supervisor for Henry Nwankwo’s PhD, “The impact of different trajectories of dying and associated care settings on the opportunity for a good death”.  Graduated Summer 2020. 

Philip is interested in supervising doctoral research related to the following topics:

  • Applications of the Capability approach within health economics
  • The application of health economic methods to social care
  • Assessing & valuing outcomes for inclusion in economic analysis
  • Costs and outcomes associated with the provision of informal care

Doctoral research

PhD title
Developing a Capability Approach to Measure and Value Quality of Life: An Application to Chronic Pain.

Research

Philip is currently working on several grants relating to adult social care and is currently the Principal Investigator for an NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project on self-funding and capital depletion, which started in March 2022.

In 2016, Philip was awarded an MRC New Investigator Grant. The project, “Investigating deliberative methods for setting a monetary capability threshold in the context of social care and public health”, was conducted over three years.

Until September 2015, Philip was working on an ERC funded project, relating to care at the end of life.

Philip was also previously a co-applicant on the NIHR HTA funded project "A study to assess feasibility of a randomised multi-centre clinical trial in children and adults, to examine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of pressure garments to improve scarring."

Research Groups and Centres:

  • Health Economists’ Study Group
  • International Health Economics Association
  • European Health Economics Association

Other activities

  • Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research within the Department of Applied Health Sciences.
  • Member of the London Region Committee, NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
  • Frontline advisor for the West Midlands Research Design Service.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Iqbal, A, Kinghorn, P, Glasby, J, Tanner, D, Allen, K, Zafar, S & Roberts, T 2026, 'An Exploration of the Costs of Residential Care Home Closures: A Mixed Method Approach', Journal of Long-Term Care, vol. 2026, pp. 240-255. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.386

Glasby, J, Allen, K, Bennett, M, Douglass, T, Iqbal, A, Kinghorn, P, Needham, C, Plappert, H, Roberts, T, Skrybant, M, Smith, D, Tanner, D, Taylor, B, Topping, A, Ward, L & Zafar, S 2026, 'Improving outcomes when care homes close: NIHR Programme Grant multi-methods study', Programme Grants for Applied Research, vol. 14, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.3310/GJJG3821

Mathur, P, Stathi, A, Goodyear, VA, Krauss, T, Thomas, H, Cooper, A, Kinghorn, P, Miller, C, Ives, N, Chechlacz, M, Wilson, D, Magill, L & Chiou, S-Y 2026, 'Supervised and Self-Directed Technology-Based Dual-Task Exercise Training Program for Older Adults With a History of Falls: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study', JMIR Aging, vol. 9, e87577. https://doi.org/10.2196/87577

Liu, L, Tew, J, Mahesh, S & Kinghorn, P 2025, 'An exploration of the costs of family and group conferencing pathways in adult social care and mental health: A scenario-based cost analysis', PLOS ONE, vol. 20, no. 12, e0326829. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326829

Kinghorn, P, Ince, R, Hastings, A, Birks, Y & Tanner, D 2025, 'Continued Policy Drift on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England: What can be learned from the shelving of proposed charging reforms?', Social Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.70031

Mathur, P, Thomas, H, Cooper, A, Chechlacz, M, Stathi, A, Goodyear, V, Miller, C, Krauss, T, Ives, N, Magill, L, Kinghorn, P, Wilson, D & Chiou, S-Y 2025, 'Supervised and self-directed technology-based dual-task exercise training programme for older adults at risk of falling - Protocol for a feasibility study', PLOS One, vol. 20, no. 3, e0314829. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314829

Henstock, L, Johnson, R, Kinghorn, P, Beach, D & Al-Janabi, H 2025, 'Why and how do workplaces invest in mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and process tracing study', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 366, 117633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117633

Husbands, S, Mitchell, PM, Kinghorn, P, Byford, S, Bailey, C, Anand, P, Peters, TJ, Floredin, I & Coast, J 2024, 'Is well-becoming important for children and young people? Evidence from in-depth interviews with children and young people and their parents', Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03585-w

Husbands, S, Mitchell, PM, Kinghorn, P, Byford, S, Breheny, K, Bailey, C, Anand, P, Peters, TJ, Floredin, I & Coast, J 2024, 'The development of a capability wellbeing measure in economic evaluation for children and young people aged 11-15', Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117311

Iqbal, A, Kinghorn, P, Glasby, J, Tanner, D & Roberts, T 2023, 'A Scoping Review of the Costs, Consequences, and Wider Impacts of Residential Care Home Closures in a UK Context', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 2023, 8675499. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/8675499

Nwankwo, H, Coast, J, Hewison, A, Kinghorn, P, Madathil, S & Bailey, C 2022, 'A think-aloud study of the feasibility of patients with end-stage organ failure completing the ICECAP-SCM', Palliative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163221122979

Digital or Visual Products

Kinghorn, P & Tanner, D, Paying Care Home Fees: What happens next?, 2024, Digital or Visual Products. <https://youtu.be/YiR_vbpZd6U>

Other contribution

Glasby, J, Allen, K, Bennett, M, Douglass, T, Iqbal, A, Kinghorn, P, Needham, C, Plappert, H, Roberts, T, Skrybant, M, Smith, D, Tanner, D, Taylor, B, Topping, A, Ward, L & Zafar, S 2025, 'Achieving closure': Improving outcomes when care homes close: ten top tips (from older people, families and social care staff). University of Birmingham. <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/projects/achieving-closure>

Kinghorn, P, Ince, B, Tanner, D, Hastings, A, Baxter, K & Birks, Y 2024, Paying care home fees: What to do next. University of Birmingham.

Review article

Kinchin, I, Walshe, V, Normand, C, Coast, J, Elliott, R, Kroll, T, Kinghorn, P, Thompson, A, Viney, R, Currow, D & O'Mahony, JF 2023, 'Expanding health technology assessment towards broader value: Ireland as a case study', International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 39, no. 1, e26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462323000235

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