Graham Kirkwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 370417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Kirkwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirkwood |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKWOOD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8897-316X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Waiting times and admissions policies in England and Scotland before and after privatisation of services for NHS elective hip and knee replacement surgery in England between 2008 and 2019
BACKGROUND: In the UK, where healthcare is a devolved matter, England and Scotland have different policies to reduce waiting lists for elective surgery. England is redirecting NHS funding to the private sector using commercial contracts, Scotland is expanding in-house capacity. OBJECTIVE: To compare trends in admissions, waiting times and inequalities in England and Scotland for hip and knee replacement surgery between April 1997 and March 2019. …
Private sector expansion and the widening NHS treatment gap between rich and poor in England: Admissions for NHS-funded elective primary hip and knee replacements between 1997/98 and 2018/19
Parliament has imposed duties on the government and NHS in England aimed at reducing health inequalities. AIM: to understand the effect on inequalities of government policies, which require the NHS in England to outsource elective surgery to the private sector. We analysed the numbers of admissions for hip and knee replacement surgery from the least and most deprived population quintiles in three time periods: before the introduction of the polic…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren: An Analysis of English State-Funded Secondary Schools
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
Unintentional injury in England: An analysis of the emergency care data set pilot in Oxfordshire from 2012 to 2014
BACKGROUND: A pilot injury data collection exercise at the emergency departments (EDs) of Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (OUH) ran from 2012 to 2014 to inform the current development of the new NHS England emergency care data set. METHODS: Data collected at the EDs of OUH 1 January 2012 to 30 March 2014 analysed for Oxford City and Cherwell District Council areas. Data completeness and quality checked a…
Independent sector treatment centres: Learning from a Scottish case study
MMR safety, and nearly a quarter (22.7%, n = 60) were rated as ''mixed''. In 2000, despite growing public concerns and widespread media coverage, fewer than 20 comment pieces were published. From 2001-2003 the tone of many articles was negative, mixed or neutral, thus conveying ambiguous or negative messages about MMR safety to health professionals, though from 2004 the tone changed and most comment pieces were broadly positive. Overall less than…
The Political Economy of Health Care - by Tudor Hart, J
Tudor Hart, J. The Political Economy of Health Care Bristol : The Policy Press , £14.99 (pbk) xvi+320 pp . ISBN 1 86134 808 8 Julian Tudor Hart is well known to many working in the fields of health care and health care policy, most notably for his Inverse Care Law (Lancet 297(7696) 405-12, 1971) which states that ‘The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. This inverse care law ope…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren: An Analysis of English State-Funded Secondary Schools
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
The Political Economy of Health Care - by Tudor Hart, J
Tudor Hart, J. The Political Economy of Health Care Bristol : The Policy Press , £14.99 (pbk) xvi+320 pp . ISBN 1 86134 808 8 Julian Tudor Hart is well known to many working in the fields of health care and health care policy, most notably for his Inverse Care Law (Lancet 297(7696) 405-12, 1971) which states that ‘The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. This inverse care law ope…
Independent sector treatment centres: Learning from a Scottish case study
MMR safety, and nearly a quarter (22.7%, n = 60) were rated as ''mixed''. In 2000, despite growing public concerns and widespread media coverage, fewer than 20 comment pieces were published. From 2001-2003 the tone of many articles was negative, mixed or neutral, thus conveying ambiguous or negative messages about MMR safety to health professionals, though from 2004 the tone changed and most comment pieces were broadly positive. Overall less than…
Unintentional injury in England: An analysis of the emergency care data set pilot in Oxfordshire from 2012 to 2014
BACKGROUND: A pilot injury data collection exercise at the emergency departments (EDs) of Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (OUH) ran from 2012 to 2014 to inform the current development of the new NHS England emergency care data set. METHODS: Data collected at the EDs of OUH 1 January 2012 to 30 March 2014 analysed for Oxford City and Cherwell District Council areas. Data completeness and quality checked a…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren: An Analysis of English State-Funded Secondary Schools
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
Private sector expansion and the widening NHS treatment gap between rich and poor in England: Admissions for NHS-funded elective primary hip and knee replacements between 1997/98 and 2018/19
Parliament has imposed duties on the government and NHS in England aimed at reducing health inequalities. AIM: to understand the effect on inequalities of government policies, which require the NHS in England to outsource elective surgery to the private sector. We analysed the numbers of admissions for hip and knee replacement surgery from the least and most deprived population quintiles in three time periods: before the introduction of the polic…
Waiting times and admissions policies in England and Scotland before and after privatisation of services for NHS elective hip and knee replacement surgery in England between 2008 and 2019
BACKGROUND: In the UK, where healthcare is a devolved matter, England and Scotland have different policies to reduce waiting lists for elective surgery. England is redirecting NHS funding to the private sector using commercial contracts, Scotland is expanding in-house capacity. OBJECTIVE: To compare trends in admissions, waiting times and inequalities in England and Scotland for hip and knee replacement surgery between April 1997 and March 2019. …
Medicine (4 works) · Health Services Management and Policy (2 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (2 works) · Antibody (1 works) · Antigen presentation (1 works) · Arthroplasty (1 works) · CD8 (1 works)