Professor Mark Exworthy

Professor Mark Exworthy

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Health Policy and Management

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 3213
Email
m.exworthy@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Social Policy, HSMC
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT, United Kingdom

Mark is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
  • BSc, Loughborough University
  • PG Certificate: Academic Practice in Teaching and Learning
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Biography

Mark has previously held posts at Southampton University, London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), Oxford Brookes and Royal Holloway University of London. He was also a Harkness Fellow in health care policy, based at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) (funded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York).

Postgraduate supervision

Mark is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in the following areas:

  • Governance
  • health policy
  • professionalism
  • policy implementation

Research

Mark's research interests fall into 3 : 

  • Governance and implementation relating to policies to tackle health inequalities and other social `problems'.
  • Professionals and managerialism in health care organisations (especially relating to management of clinical performance).
  • Decentralisation in health care organisations.

Mark's research has been funded by the ESRC, NHS (Dept of Health and NIHR), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, NHS Confederation and the Commonwealth Fund of New York. He has been involved as PI or co-PI on research grants totalling £2.5m.

Other activities

Chair, Society for Studies in Organising Health Care (SHOC): http://shoc.org.uk/ and https://twitter.com/SHOC_OBHC

Publications

Recent publications

Book

McDermott, A, Kitchener, M & Exworthy, M (eds) 2017, Managing improvement in healthcare: attaining, sustaining and spreading quality. Palgrave Macmillan.

Exworthy, M, Mannion, R & Powell, M 2016, Dismantling the NHS? Evaluating the impact of health reforms. Policy Press, Bristol.

Article

Snelling, I, Exworthy, M & Ghezelayagh, S 2020, 'The Chief Registrar role in the UK: leadership capacity and development of hybrid leaders', Journal of Health, Organization and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-08-2019-0229

Bernardi, R & Exworthy, M 2019, 'Clinical managers' identity at the crossroad of multiple institutional logics in IT innovation: the case study of a health care organization in England', Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12267

Exworthy, M, Gabe, J, Jones, IR & Smith, G 2019, 'Professional autonomy and surveillance: the case of public reporting in cardiac surgery', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1040-1055. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12883

Exworthy, M & Morcillo, V 2019, 'Primary care doctors’ understandings of and strategies to tackle health inequalities: a qualitative study', Primary Health Care Research & Development, vol. 20, e20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S146342361800052X

Sheaff, R, Halliday, J, Exworthy, M, Gibson, A, Allen, P, Clark, J, Asthana, S & Mannion, R 2019, 'Repositioning the boundaries between public and private healthcare providers in the English NHS', Journal of Health, Organization and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-12-2018-0355

Waring, J, Bishop, S, Clarke, J, Exworthy, M, Fulop, NJ, Hartley, J & Ramsay, AIG 2018, 'Healthcare leadership with political astuteness (HeLPA): a qualitative study of how service leaders understand and mediate the informal ‘power and politics’ of major health system change', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 18, 918. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3728-z

Exworthy, M, Powell, M & Glasby, J 2017, 'The governance of integrated health and social care in England since 2010: great expectations not met once again?', Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.07.009

Mannion, R & Exworthy, M 2017, '(Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare', International Journal of Health Policy and Management. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.35

Sheaff, R, Byng, R, Peckham, S, Halliday, J & Exworthy, M 2017, 'Bridging the discursive gap between lay and medical discourse in care coordination', Sociology of Health and Illness. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12553

Cascon-Pereira, R, Kirkpatrick, I & Exworthy, M 2016, 'El estatus de la profesión médica: ¿reforzado o debilitado por la nueva gestión pública?', Gaceta Sanitaria. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.07.023

Sheaff, R, Halliday, J, Exworthy, M, Allen, P, Mannion, R, Asthana, S, Gibson, A & Clark, J 2016, 'A qualitative study of diverse providers’ behaviour in response to commissioners, patients and innovators in England: research protocol', British Medical Journal Open, vol. 6, no. 5, e010680 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010680

Exworthy, M, Hyde, P & McDonald-Kuhne, P 2016, 'Knights and knaves in the English medical profession: the case of Clinical Excellence Awards', Journal of Social Policy, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279415000483

Commissioned report

Sheaff, R, Halliday, J, Exworthy, M, Gibson, A, Allen, P, Clarke, J, Asthana, S & Mannion, R 2018, Diverse healthcare providers: behaviour in response to commissioners, patients and innovations. National Institute for Health Research, London.

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Expertise

Health and Social care

Health policy and management including NHS reform