Future Organisation
Future Organisation focuses on the hard and soft elements of systems management and change, within health and care services.
Members working within Future Organisation help analyse, organise and deliver for higher performing health systems, underpinned by a vision of a future health system which is efficient and productive, delivers quality of patient care, and values the health and care workforce.
Areas of expertise in this strand include:
- analysis and reconfiguration of work processes and patient pathways, cost-effectiveness analysis of medical technologies and health policies
- modelling and management of innovation and change, data analytics for service development, whole systems improvement
- workforce development, work redesign and leadership
Postgraduate courses
Our research
Healthcare prioritisation
Over several years we've worked in partnership with NHS organisations, in both Scotland and England, to develop frameworks for identifying and tackling gaps in coverage and prioritising solution actions and redeployment of investment.
Our work takes a sociotechnical, participative approach, stressing that data and evidence need to be complemented by a sound social process for building understanding and commitment to change.
IndiaSim project
We have developed IndiaSim, an agent-based simulation that uses a bottom-up approach by drawing from household survey data to model at the individual level. The model has been used to analyse several applications including:
- introducing vaccines (e.g. a rotavirus vaccine) in India’s Universal Immunization Programme
- universal public financing of epilepsy treatment
- utilising community healthcare workers to scale-up a programme for home-based newborn care
- building water and sanitation infrastructure to reduce diarrheal diseases
We continue to use and extend the model for new applications.
Economic burden of diarrheal diseases and effect of vaccination
Working in close partnership with several researchers from Bangladesh, including current and former PhD students, we've been involved in several studies of healthcare provision and financing in the country, using local data sources. A particular focus has been on the financial impacts on patients in an environment where illness may result in significant financial hardship.
Knowledge exchange
Discrete Event Simulation support for NHS Scotland
Funded by the Scottish Government since 2014 to support Scotland’s public health service in its quest to improve patient experiences while reducing costs, our work with Glasgow Royal Infirmary orthopaedics department utilised Discrete Event Simulation (DES) for cost comparison of two fracture pathways using an activity-based costing method.
Read more about Discrete Event Simulation
The Pharmacy Prescribing Support Unit of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
In collaboration with the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, our team worked with the Pharmacy Prescribing Support Unit of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde supporting the implementation of a new, centralised Pharmacy Distribution Centre (PDC) to replace 11 different in-hospital pharmacy stores.
The Pharmacy Prescribing Support Unit