Professor Mark Exworthy

Professor Mark Exworthy

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Co-director, MBA Clinical Leadership

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School of Social Policy and Society, 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 and Co-Director of the MBA Clinical Leadership course. 

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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).

Teaching

Course director, `Health Management and Leadership’ (HML) inter-calation course for medical students.

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

Exworthy, M, Mannion, R & Powell, M (eds) 2023, The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy. Bristol University Press. <https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-nhs-at-75>

Article

Samarasinghe, BSW, Millar, R & Exworthy, M 2024, 'Bridging the divide? Why the integration of standardisation and individualisation of care remains paramount during turbulent times', BMJ Leader. https://doi.org/10.1136/leader-2023-000920

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, 'Children’s hospitals in the British NHS: commercial and international considerations', Medical Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013099

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Hardwick, R & Smith, C 2024, 'Commodification and healthcare in the third sector in England: from gift to commodity—and back?', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 298-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2244350

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Gibson, A, Stuart, J, Jochum, V, Allen, P, Clark, J, Mannion, R & Asthana, S 2024, 'Consequences of how third sector organisations are commissioned in the NHS and local authorities in England: a mixed-methods study', Health and Social Care Delivery Research, vol. 12, no. 39. https://doi.org/10.3310/NTDT7965

Exworthy, M, Lunt, N, Tuck, P & Mistry, R 2024, 'From commodification to entrepreneurialism: how commercial income is transforming the English NHS', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 308-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2243775

Ansmann, L, Nöst, S, Körner, M, Auschra, C, Bal, R, Böddeker, M, Bode, I, Braithwaite, J, Breidenbach, C, Coors, M, Demirer, I, Exworthy, M, Harst, L, Heuser, C, Hoffmann, J, Köberlein-Neu, J, Krajic, K, Maniatopoulos, G, Mannion, R, Möhler, R, Pfaff, H, Rind, E, Schnack, MAH, Wagner, MAA, Weigl, M, Wensing, M, Wiig, S, Wild, E, Wilhelm, H, Wirtz, M & Götz, K 2024, 'Navigating the Future of Organisational Health Services Research in Germany and beyond: a Position Paper', Das Gesundheitswesen. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2308-7384

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, 'NHS dentistry in Britain: A long overdue check‐up', World Medical & Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.626

Sheaff, R, Allen, P, Exworthy, M & Mannion, R 2024, 'The policy and politics of healthcare corporatisation: The case of the English NHS', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 342, 116505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116505, https://doi.org/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623008626

Mannion, R, Exworthy, M, Wiig, S & Braithwaite, J 2023, 'The power of Autonomy and resilience in health care delivery', BMJ, vol. 382, e073331. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-073331

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Exworthy, M & Hunter, DJ 2024, Mind the gap: tackling health inequalities. in M Powell, D Beland & C Wendt (eds), Research handbook of health care policy. Edward Elgar, pp. 170-190. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800887565.00015

Exworthy, M & Nash, D 2024, Pay and reward in health care services: insights from the case of the UK. in A McDermott, P Hyde, A Avgar & L Fitzgerald (eds), Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. Edward Elgar, pp. 318-334. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802205718.00031

Waring, J, Bishop, S, Clarke, JM, Exworthy, M & Hartley, J 2023, Healthcare leadership with political astuteness. in N Chambers (ed.), Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare. Edward Elgar, pp. 113-131. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886254.00014

Comment/debate

Murphy, N, Exworthy, M, Gauly, J, Parsons, J & Green, K 2024, 'The end of local clinical excellence awards', BMJ, vol. 385, q1032. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1032

Review article

Nöst , S, Miedaner, F, Wagner, A, Beckmann, M, Exworthy, M, Götz , K, Körner , M, Mannion, R, Pfaff, H, Piotrowski, A, Hammer, A & Ansmann, L 2024, 'Organisational Health Services Research in Germany: A Scoping Review of Conference Abstracts', Das Gesundheitswesen. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2350-3857

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Expertise

Health and Social care

Health policy and management including NHS reform