Huw T.O. Davies (U.K.), Ph.D.

(United Kingdom)
Professor of Health Care Policy & Management and Director
Centre for Public Policy & Management, Department of Management
University of St. Andrews

Harkness Project Title: How Managed Care Organizations Use Outcomes to Monitor and Improve Care

Mentor: Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.

Host Institution: University of California, San Francisco

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Huw T.O. Davies, a 1998-99 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is reader in health care policy and management at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and associate director of the PharmacoEconomic Research Centre.  He was formerly research manager at Tayside Health Board and a research fellow at both Dundee University and South Bank University (London). Dr. Davies’ current research interests include performance measurement and management in health care; health outcomes; health care quality (including medical and clinical audit); health technology assessment; and evidence-based policy and practice. He has a long-standing research interest in the epidemiology and management of acute and chronic pain.  He has authored or co-authored two books, five edited collections and over 80 papers on health services research, health care quality and research methodology.  Dr. Davies earned a degree in mathematics and statistics from Cambridge University, a M.Sc. in operational research from Sussex University, and a Ph.D. in health services research from Dundee University.  He has also completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Health Economics at the University of Aberdeen. 

Career Activity Since Fellowship:

  • Director, Knowledge Mobilisation & Capacity Building, National Institute for Health Research SDO Programme, 2008
  • Winner, "Baxter Award" European Book prize, 2005 (shortlisted for same, 2004)
  • Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management, School of Social Sciences, University of St. Andrews, 2001
  • Founding Director, Centre for Public Policy and Management, University of St. Andrews, 2001
  • Reader in Health Care Management, School of Social Sciences, University of St. Andrews, 2000

Current Positions:

  • Professor of Health Care Policy & Management, School of Management; Co-Director, Centre for Public Policy & Management; and Associate Director, Research Unit for Research Utilisation, University of St Andrews
  • Director, Social Dimensions of Health Institute, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews

(Updated August 2010)

E-Mail: hd@st-and.ac.uk

Publications

Konteh FH, Mannion R, Davies HT. “Understanding culture and culture management in the English NHS: a comparison of professional and patient perspectives.” J Eval Clin Pract. 2011 Feb;17(1):111-7. 

Hughes CM, Lapane KL, Watson CM, Davies HTO.  “Does Organisational Culture Influence Prescribing in Care Homes for Older People?”  Drugs and Aging 2007; 24(2): 81.

Davies, H.T.O, Nutley, S.M., Walter, I. Using Evidence: How Research Can Inform Public Services.  The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2007.

Exworthy, M., Bindman, A., Davies, H.T.O., Washington, E.A. “Evidence into Policy and Practice? Measuring the Progress of U.S. and U.K. Policies to Tackle Disparities and Inequalities in U.S. and U.K. Health and Health Care” The Milbank Quarterly 2006; 84 (1): 75–109.

Lavis J, Gruen R, Davies H, Walshe K, Farquahar CM. “Working Within and Beyond the Cochrane Collaboration to Make Systematic Reviews More Useful to Healthcare Managers and Policymakers.” Healthcare Policy, 200g; 1(2): 21-33.

Lavis, J., Davies, H.T.O., Oxman, A., Denis, J-L., Golden-Biddle, K., Ferlie, E. “Towards Systematic Reviews That Inform Health Care Management and Policy-Making.” Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2005, Vol 10 (3), suppl 1: 35-48.

Marshall, M.N., Davies, H.T.O. “Ensuring Accountability: The Balance between Trusting and Checking.” Quality Assessment in European Family Practice. Ed. Grol, R., 2005.

Mannion, R., Davies, H.T.O., Marshall, M.N. “The Impact of Star Performance Ratings in Acute Hospitals.” Journal of Health Service Research and Policy, 2005, Vol. 10: 18-24.

Mannion, R., Davies, H.T.O., Marshall, M.N. Cultures for Performance in Health, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Marshall, M.N., Romano, P.S., Davies, H.T.O. “How Do We Maximise the Impact of the Public Reporting of Quality of Care?” International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2004; 16:i57-63.

Marshall, MN, Davies, HTO, Cultures for Performance in Health Care : Evidence on the Relationships between Organisational Culture and Organisational Performance in the NHS;  University of York, Centre for Health Economics, York, 2003.

Scott, J.T., Mannion, R., Marshall, M.N., Davies, H.T.O. “Does Organisational Culture Help to Explain Health Care Performance? A Review of the Evidence.” Journal of Health Service Research & Policy 2003; 8:105-117.

Scott T, Mannion R, Davies H, and Marshall M. “Implementing Culture Change in Health Care: Theory and Practice,” International Journal of Quality in Health Care 2003; 15(2):111-118.

Marshall MN, Mannion R, Nelson E, Davies HTO. “Managing Change in the Culture of General Practice: Qualitative Case Studies in Primary Care Trusts.” BMJ 2003; 327:599-602.

Marshall, M.N., Shekelle, P.G., Davies, H.T.O., Smith, P.C. “Public Reporting on Quality: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom.” Health Affairs 2003; Vol.22 (3):134-148.

Davies, H.T.O., Harrison, S. “Trends In Doctor-Manager Relationships.” British Medical Journal 2003; 326:646-9

Davies, H.T.O., Hodges, C.L., Rundall, T.G. “Views of Doctors and Managers on the Doctor-Manager Relationship in the NHS.” British Medical Journal 2003; 326:626-8

Powell, A.E., Davies, H.T.O., Thomson, R.G. “Using Routine Comparative Data to Assess Health Care Quality: Understanding and Avoiding Common Pitfalls.” Quality & Safety in Health Care 2003; 12(2): 122 – 128

Davies, H.T.O., Washington, A.E., Bindman, A.B. “Health Care Report Cards: Implications for the Underserved and the Organizations Who Provide for Them.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2002; 27(3):379-99

Davies, H.T.O. “Understanding Culture in Reforming the National Health Service.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2002; 95:140-142.

Marshall MN, Davies HTO, “Public Release of Information on Quality of Care: How are the Health Service and the Public Expected to Respond?” Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 6; 158-162, 2001.

Davies, H.T.O., Nutley, S.M. “Developing Learning Organisations in the New NHS.” British Medical Journal 2000; 320:998-1001.

Marshall, M.N., Davies, H.T.O. “Performance Measurement and the Management of Health Care Professionals: Some Topical Issues.” Disease Management and Health Outcomes 2000; 7(6):305-314.

Davies, H.T.O., Nutley, S.M., Mannion, R. “Organisational Culture and Quality of Health Care.” Quality in Health Care 2000; 9:111-19.

Davies, H.T.O., Marshall, M.N. “UK And US Health Care Systems: Divided By More Than a Common Language.” Lancet 2000; 355:336.

Marshall MN, Davies HTO. “Issues in Performance Measurement and Management in Health Care” Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7; 305-314, 2000.

Davies, H.T.O., Marshall, M.N. “Public Disclosure of Performance Data: Does the Public Get What the Public Wants?”  Lancet 1999; 353:1639-40.

Davies, H.T.O. “Falling Public Trust in Health Services: Implications for Accountability” Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 1999:4(4):193-4.

Davies, H.T.O., Rennie D. Editorial: “Independence, Governance and Trust” JAMA 1999; 281:2344-6.

Davies, H.T.O., Mannion, R. “Clinical Governance: Striking the Balance between Checking and Trusting”. In: Reforming Markets in Health Care – An Economic Perspective. Smith Pc (Ed) Open University Press, 1999.  (Also reproduced as: Clinical Governance: Discussion Paper165. Centre for Health Economics. University Of York, U.K.).