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Health Economics

Health Economics at ISD

In this section you will find news articles on topics related to Health Economics work currently being undertaken by staff at ISD. By the nature of this work these studies invariably involve joint working across a range of partner organisations and agencies and offer opportunities to work with individuals from a very wide range of other specialist groups.

The Edinburgh Ingrown Toenail Study (EDITS), the results of the economic evaluation of which were presented by us at an international conference in Budapest in July 2006, was a collaborative study between podiatrists from Queen Margaret University College and orthopaedic surgeons from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The economic evaluation was a collaborative effort between the clinical staff, analytical staff at ISD, and academics from both Glasgow University and the University of Wales, Bangor.

The Care Homes Staffing Project is currently underway to devise a method to help inform staffing levels in Care Homes for older people using information on the residents' dependency group as assessed by the Indicator of Relative Need (IoRN) instrument.The project is a collaborative effort between the Care Commission, The Scottish Executive Joint Future Unit, ISD and a range of stakeholders including COSLA, Local Authorities, Scottish Care, BUPA, etc. Specialist advice on the analytical approach has been sought from the University of York.

  1. Proximity to Death Work (seeLink opens in new windowPTD Summary or Link opens in new windowPTD Final Report )
  5. Paper being prepared for publication: An economic evaluation of toenail surgery performed by podiatrists and surgeons -   Link opens in new windowslides from a conference presentation on economic evaluation of toenail surgery , Budapest 2006.

Main contact: Email Barbara Graham