Professor Gwyn Bevan

Professor of Policy Analysis

Public Management and Governance Faculty Group

Biography

Professor Gwyn Bevan is Professor of Policy Analysis, Director of the MSc in Public Management and Governance. He has previously been the Head of the Department of Management and a Director at the Commission for Health Improvement, which regulated quality of care in the NHS in England and Wales from 2000 to 2004. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation that advises the Secretary of State for Health on the formulas to be used in allocating resources for health care and public health in England and the Advisory Board to Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary on the programme of regular force inspections. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government of the University of Oxford and Affiliate Professor, Istituto di Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.

Research interests

Analyses of the natural experiment of outcomes of different policies in UK countries following devolution (http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/compare-UK-health)
Enabling stakeholders to increase the value delivered by systems of health care in austerity by using the innovative approach of STAR (socio-technical allocation of resource) (http://www.health.org.uk/collection/star-socio-technical-allocation-resources)
Identifying and reducing unwarranted variation in health care through the Wennberg International Collaborative

Recent publications

Variation in utilization and need for tympanostomy tubes across England and New England
Parker, Devin M., Schang, Laura, Wasserman, Jared R., Viles, Weston D., Bevan, Gwyn and Goodman, David C. (2016) Variation in utilization and need for tympanostomy tubes across England and New England. The Journal of Pediatrics . ISSN 0022-3476 (In Press)
What can we learn from the UK’s “natural experiments” of the benefits of regions?
Bevan, Gwyn (2016) What can we learn from the UK’s “natural experiments” of the benefits of regions? Healthcare Papers, 16 (1). pp. 16-20. ISSN 1929-6339
Improving public services through ambitious targets and tough sanctions for failure
Bevan, Gwyn (2015) Improving public services through ambitious targets and tough sanctions for failure. LSE Research Festival 2015, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
STAR — people-powered prioritization: a 21st-century solution to allocation headaches
Airoldi, Mara, Morton, Alec, Bevan, Gwyn and Smith, Jennifer (2014) STAR — people-powered prioritization: a 21st-century solution to allocation headaches. Medical Decision Making, 34 (8). pp. 965-975. ISSN 1552-681X
Using an epidemiological model to investigate unwarranted variation: the case of ventilation tubes for otitis media with effusion in England
Schang, Laura, De Poli, C., Airoldi, Mara, Morton, Alec, Bohm, N., Lakhanpaul, Monica, Schilder, A. and Bevan, Gwyn (2014) Using an epidemiological model to investigate unwarranted variation: the case of ventilation tubes for otitis media with effusion in England. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 19 (4). pp. 236-244. ISSN 1355-8196

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