Jennifer Dixon has researched and written widely on health care reform in the UK and internationally. She trained originally in medicine, practising mainly paediatric medicine, before a career in policy analysis. She has a Masters in public health and a Ph.D. in health services research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Until January 2008 she was director of policy at the King’s Fund, London. She was a Harkness Fellow in New York in 1990 studying the obstacles to comprehensive health reform in the U.S., and was the policy advisor to the Chief Executive of the National Health Service between 1998 and 2000. She is currently a board member of the Audit Commission, and until recently on the Board of the Healthcare Commission. She is visiting professor at both LSE and at Imperial College. Recent specific research interests have been in developing risk stratification and risk adjustment techniques for application in the NHS, in particular in resource allocation and identifying high risk patients for case management. She helped to design the evaluation of the DH funded ‘whole system demonstrator’ project, which is a large complex randomised controlled trial, and is leading a key theme – the impact of telecare and telehealth on service use and costs. In 2009 Jennifer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Selected publications:
Trends in emergency admissions in England 2004 – 2009: is greater efficiency breeding inefficiency?
Nuffield Trust, July 2010.
Making progress on efficiency in the NHS in England: options for system reform
Nuffield Trust, June 2010.
Where next for integrated care organisations in the English NHS?
Nuffield Trust, March 2010.
Where next for commissioning in the English NHS?
Nuffield Trust, March 2010.
Invisible hand? More like post-modern mush
Health Economics, Policy and Law (2009), 4: 503-508.
Darzi’s review of quality of care in the NHS
BMJ, 18/04/2008
Time to let go?
Health Investor, 01/04/2008
Nice details, shame about the bigger picture
The Guardian, 10/10/2007
Competition on outcomes and physician leadership are not enough to reform health care
Journal of the American Medical Association, 26/09/2007
Improving management of chronic illness in the National Health Service: better incentives are the key
Chronic Illness, 01/09/2007
Health for London: showing England the way?
BMJ, 21/07/2007
Operating framework is ambitious but fails to convince on commissioning
Insight, 12/12/2006
Case finding for patients at risk of readmission to hospital: development of algorithm to identify high risk patients
BMJ, 12/08/2006
Making the NHS cost effective
The Lancet, 03/06/2006
Does more choice equal more risk?
Society Guardian, 01/03/2006
Practice-based commissioning: applying the research evidence
BMJ, 09/12/2005
Regulating Health Care: The way forward
King's Fund, 07/12/2005
The Future of Primary Care: Meeting the challenges of the new NHS market
King's Fund, 16/11/2005
Effect of diverging policy across the NHS
BMJ, 21/10/2005
Reforming the NHS in England
BMJ, 07/10/2005
NHS Market Futures: Exploring the impact of health service market reforms
King's Fund 12/09/2005
Mapping choice in the NHS: cross sectional study of routinely collected data
BMJ, 05/02/2005
Primary care trusts
BMJ, 16/10/2004
Will practice make perfect?
Public Finance 10/09/2004
COPD Medical Admissions in the UK: 2000/01 – 2001/02
King's Fund 01/08/2004
Patient choice in the NHS
BMJ, 10/07/2004
Payment by results – new financial flows in the NHS
BMJ, 24/04/2004
Can the NHS learn from US managed care associations?
BMJ, 24/02/2004
Rethinking management of chronic diseases
BMJ, 24/01/2004
Public involvement in health care
BMJ, 17/01/2004
Managing Chronic Disease
King’s Fund, 01/01/2004
Foundation trusts: where next?
BMJ, 21/06/2003
Future Directions for Primary Care Trusts
King’s Fund, 01/05/2003
Can Market Forces be Used for Good?
King's Fund, 01/05/2003
Uses of error - pattern recognition
The Lancet, 02/11/2002
Mind the gap: the policy response to the NHS nursing shortage
BMJ, 07/09/2002
Funding is not the only factor
BMJ, 19/01/2002
Managing the Pressure
King’s Fund, 01/01/2002
Reforming health care, Saskatchewan style
The Lancet, 18/08/2001
Stakeholder health insurance has disingenuous aims
BMJ, 31/03/2001
Another healthcare funding review
BMJ, 10/02/2001
The NHS Plan
BMJ, 05/08/2000
A 'common sense revolution' for UK healthcare
BMJ, 08/07/2000
Modernising the NHS: performance and productivity
BMJ, 27/05/2000
Cash bonanza for NHS: The price is centralisation
BMJ, 01/04/2000