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Professor Huw T.O. Davies: Extended C.V.

Brief Career History

  • Research Fellow (South Bank Polytechnic) 1985-88
  • Research Officer (Thames Cancer Registry) 1988-89
  • Research Fellow (University of Dundee) 1989-96
  • Research Manager (Tayside Health Board) 1994-96
  • Lecturer (University of St Andrews) 1996-98
  • International Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy (University of California at San Francisco) 1998-99
  • Reader (University of St Andrews) 1999-2001
  • Professor (University of St Andrews) 2001-current
  • Visiting Professor (Auckland University) 2005-06

Major Recent Grants Awarded (c. £3 Million Since 2000)

  • NIHR SDO Programme. Effective Board Governance for Safer Care. Mannion, Freeman, Davies, et al. Universities of Birmingham, York & St Andrews £449,402 (c.£25,000 through St Andrews). Funding agreed: Sept 2011- Sept 2014.
  • NHS Education for Scotland: Review and synthesis of 'Knowledge to Action' frameworks and implementation strategies. Davies, Ward; Universities of St Andrews & Leeds; £26,040 (£13,020 through St Andrews). Funding agreed: June-Dec 2011.
  • LNR CLAHRC. Mid-term review of LNR CLAHRC against strategic objectives. Davies, Powell. £6,940 (all St Andrews). Project completed: Sept-Dec 2010.
  • The Health Foundation: Helping social research make a difference. Davies, Powell. £9,990 (all St Andrews). Project completed: Aug-Dec 2010.
  • The Health Foundation: Understanding engagement with quality in health care. Davies, Powell, Wilkinson. SDHI,. £22,676 (all St Andrews). Project completed Sept 2009-Feb 2010.
  • Department of Health (London). Support for NIHR SDO Programme 2008-2010. c. £220,000, all paid through St Andrews.
  • ESRC Seminar Series (2009-11): Conceptual frameworks for making sense of evidence and knowledge production. Greene, McKee, Davies, Harrison & Lambert (Universities of Aberdeen, St Andrews, Bristol and Queens Belfast). £18,000 (£5,600 through St Andrews).
  • NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. A systematic narrative review of quality improvement models. Davies, Rushmer, Powell. £50,000 (all St Andrews). Project completed June 2008 – Mar 2009.
  • NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Evaluation of the introduction and implementation of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tools and resources in NHS Scotland. Davies, Wilkinson et al. £45,000 (all St Andrews). Project completed Jan 2008-Mar 2009.
  • Scottish Funding Council (SFC): A knowledge exchange network for policy makers, practitioners and researchers promoting self-care for long term conditions. Naji et al. c. £106,000 (some staff costs – c. £10,000 – through St Andrews). Project completed 2009-11.
  • Scottish Funding Councils (SFC), Strategic Research Development Grant (SRDG 2006). 'Patient Safety Research Collaboration' – Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews. Total bid, c £2.0million from SFC with extra £1.1 million University contributions; SDHI component, c.£500,000. Project running August 2007 – July 2012.
  • Department of Health (London) SDO Programme: Patient Choice in Policy and Practice across the UK. Peckham, Davies, Entwistle et al. Universities of London (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Queens University Belfast, Swansea, St Andrews and Dundee (SDHI); 2006-09: total £400,000. Estimated c£90,000 through St Andrews.
  • The Health Foundation: Clinical and managerial engagement with health care quality improvement in the UK (literature review). Davies, Rushmer and Powell. SDHI, 2006-07. £10,000.
  • Department of Health (London) SDO Programme: Delivering care through managed clinical networks: formation, growth, dynamics and performance; Davies, Guthrie, Rushmer et al. Universities of St Andrews and Dundee (SDHI); 2005-08: £300,000.
  • ESRC: Excellence in Public Services Programme: What changes when incentives change in primary care? Guthrie, Huby & Davies. Universities of Dundee and St Andrews (SDHI), and Edinburgh. June 2005 - May 2006: c. £45,000, with additional funds from EastRen (£17,600).
  • Department of Health (London) SDO Programme: Organisational culture and organisational performance in whole health economies. Mannion, Davies, Marshall et al. Universities of York, St Andrews and Manchester; 2005-08: £300,000.
  • Department of Health (London) SDO Programme: Assessment tools for managing organisational culture in the NHS; Mannion. Davies, Marshall et al. Universities of York, St Andrews and Manchester; 2005-07: £200,000.
  • ESRC: Increasing Research Utilisation in Public Policy & Public Services. Nutley, Davies & Smith; Apr 2001 - March 2005: £232,000 (two awards).
  • Chief Scientist Office: Postgraduate Studentship in Health Services Research (three separate awards: organisational performance; organisational learning; evidence use). Davies, Nutley & Rushmer; 2001-06; c. £135,000.
  • Charitable Trust: Postgraduate Studentship in Health Services Research (on implementation failure of Acute Pain Services). Davies; Oct 2001- Sept 2005: £59,000.
  • Department of Health: Academic Support to SDO Programme. Davies; Oct 2003 - Sept 2005: c. £85,000.
  • Canadian Health Services Research Foundation & The SDO Programme: What do managers and policy makers want from research syntheses? Lavis, Davies et al.; Sep 2003 - Oct 2004: Can$45,000.
  • ESRC: Trust in the Public Sector. Davies & Dibben; Nov 2001 - Oct 2003: £12,148.
  • The Nuffield Trust: Hospital-Physician Relationships. Davies & Rundall; Universities of St Andrews and California (Berkeley). Sept 2001 - Dec 2003: £39,818.
  • The Commonwealth Fund of New York: International comparisons of Hospital-Physician Relationships. Davies & Rundall; Sept 2001 - Dec 2003: US$20,000.
  • Department of Health (London): Organisational culture and health care performance. Mannion, Davies & Marshall; Oct 2000 - Dec 2002. c. £200,000 (shared across the Universities of St Andrews, York and Manchester; St Andrews' allocation c. £46,000).

Recent and Current Teaching

I have taught at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-qualification levels, including: An Introduction to Social Science Research; Research Methods (Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches); Health Care Policy & Management; Innovation & Technology Assessment in Health Care; and Evidence Use in Policy & Practice. In addition I host regular workshops for doctoral students on all aspects of preparing, executing and writing up doctoral work.

PhD Students

  • Elli Brock (completed 2004; economics of hip fracture; lead supervisor)
  • Alison Powell (awarded 2006; implementation of acute pain services in the NHS; lead supervisor)
  • Gail Greig (awarded 2008; organisational learning in primary care; second supervisor)
  • Joyce Wilkinson (awarded 2008; implementing evidence-based practice in nursing; second supervisor)
  • Julia Egan (awarded 2011; emergent nurse leadership in the NHS; lead supervisor);
  • Anne Duguid (submitted Oct 2011; managing care in MCNs; lead supervisor);
  • Trenholme Junghans (planned submission summer 2012; discoursing patient safety; lead supervisor).

Selected Publications from 2000 - 2007

Books

Nutley SM, Walter I, Davies HTO. Using Evidence: How research can inform public services . The Policy Press, Bristol 2007.

Mannion R, Davies HTO, Marshall MN. Cultures for Performance in Health Care. Open University Press, Milton Keynes (2005). Winner of the 2005 'Baxter Prize' (European book award).

Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies HTO, Marshall MN. Healthcare Performance and Organisational Culture. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford (2003). Short-listed, 2004 'Baxter Prize'.

Davies HTO. Health Services Research: Avoiding Common Pitfalls. Quay Books; 2001.

Davies HTO, Nutley SM, Smith PC. (authors and editors). What works? Evidence-based policy and practice in public services. The Policy Press, Bristol. 2000, 380pp. Reviews: 'Has come at just the right time to help policy makers' (Professor Ron Amann, Director General, Centre for Management and Policy Studies, Cabinet Office); 'Excellent... it is an intelligent and enjoyable state-of the-art review... and it is used a lot around the office.' (Dr Gordon Marshall, then Chief Executive ESRC).

Book Chapters, Edited Collections, and Journal Special Issues

In total, ten edited collections have been collated (mostly collected papers from conferences), together with some 35 chapters being authored for other collections. In addition, I have edited or co-edited five journal special issues for Public Money & Management (2) and Health Care Management Science (3). Further editorial work takes place through the Editorial Board of Health Care Management Science, and in my role as Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

Refereed Journal Articles

Articles on research use and research impact

  • Davies HTO. What's the use? Research evidence and the decision making process. Transformation Journal 2007 (spring) pp 46-49.
  • Davies HTO, Nutley S, Walter I. Academic advice to practitioners – the role and use of research-based evidence. Public Money & Management 2007; 27(4):232-5.
  • Exworthy M, Bindman A, Davies HTO, Washington AE. Evidence into policy and practice? Measuring the progress of US and UK policies to tackle disparities and inequalities in health and health care. Milbank Quarterly, 2006; 84(1):75-109.
  • Lavis JN, Davies HTO, Gruen RL, Walshe K, Farquhar CM. Working within and beyond the Cochrane Collaboration to make systematic reviews more useful to healthcare managers and policy makers. Healthcare Policy, 2006; 1(2):21-33.
  • Lavis JN, Davies HTO, 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 & Policy, 2005; 10(sup 1):35-48.
  • Walter I, Davies HTO, Nutley SM. Increasing research impact through partnerships: evidence from outside healthcare, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2003;8(2):58-61.
  • Nutley SM, Davies HTO, Walter I. Evidence-based policy and practice: cross-sector lessons from the United Kingdom, Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 2003;20:29-48.
  • Nutley SM, Walter I, Davies HTO. From knowing to doing: A framework for understanding the evidence-into-practice agenda. Evaluation (2003) 9(2):125-148.
  • Davies HTO, Mannion R, Marshall MN. (2001) Treading a Third Way for quality in health care. Public Money & Management, 21(2):6-7.
  • Nutley SM, Davies HTO & Tilley N. (2000) Editorial: Getting research into practice, Public Money and Management, 20(4), 3-6.
  • Nutley SM & Davies HTO (2000) Making a reality of evidence-based practice: some lessons from the diffusion of innovations, Public Money and Management, 20(4), 35-42.

Articles on organisational culture and social capital in health care

  • Hughes CM, Lapane K, Watson MC, Davies HTO. Does organisational culture influence prescribing in care homes for older people? Drugs Aging 2007;24:81-93.
  • Davies HTO, Mannion R, Jacobs R, Powell AE, Marshall MN. Exploring the relationship between senior management team culture and hospital performance Medical Care Research & Review 2007; 64(1): 46-65.
  • Mannion R, Davies HTO and Marshall MN. Cultural characteristics of 'high' and 'low' performing hospitals. Journal of Health Organization and Management 2005; 19(6):431-9.
  • Hyde P, Davies HTO. Service design, culture and performance in health services: consumers as co-producers. Human Relations, 2004;11:1407-26.
  • Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies HTO, Marshall MN. The quantitative measurement of organisational culture in health care: what instruments are available? Health Services Research 2003;38:923-45.
  • Scott JT, Mannion R, Marshall MN, Davies HTO. Does organisational culture help to explain health care performance? A review of the evidence. Journal of Health Service Research & Policy 2003;8:105-117. Awarded Emerald 'Citation of Excellence' as one of the 'Top 50 Management Articles of The Year' from over 15,000 articles reviewed.
  • Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies HTO, Marshall MN. Implementing culture change in health care: theory and practice. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2003;15:111-118. Ranked First of '50 Most-Frequently Read Articles', June 2006.
  • 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.
  • Davies HTO. Understanding culture in reforming the National Health Service. J Roy Soc Med, 2002;95:140-142.
  • Powell AE, Davies HTO. Business Process Re-engineering (BPR): Lost hope or learning opportunity? Br J Healthcare Management 2001;7(11):446-9.
  • Davies HTO. Cultural change and health care performance. Br J Healthcare Management 2000;6:558-60.
  • Davies HTO, Nutley SM, Mannion R. Organisational culture and quality of health care. Quality in Health Care 2000; 9:111-19. 
  • Davies HTO, Rundall T. Managing patient trust in managed care. Milbank Quarterly 2000;78(4):609-24.

Articles on performance measurement and management in health care

  • Davies HTO, Powell A, Rushmer RK. Why don't clinicians engage with quality improvement? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2007; 12(3):129-30.
  • Mannion R, Davies HTO, Marshal MN. Impact of 'star' performance ratings on English NHS Trusts. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2005; 10(1):18-24.
  • Marshall MN, Romano P, Davies HTO. How do we maximise the impact of the public reporting of quality of care? International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2004;16(1):i57-i63.
  • Marshall MN, Shekelle PG, Davies HTO, Smith PC. Public reporting on quality in the United States and the United Kingdom. Health Affairs, 2003; 22:134-148.
  • Powell AE, Davies HTO, Thomson RG. Using routine comparative data to assess health care quality: avoiding common pitfalls. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 2003; 12(2): 122-128.
  • Goddard M, Davies HTO, Dawson D, Mannion R, McInnes F. Clinical performance measurement: part 1 - getting the best out of it. J Roy Soc Med 2002; 95(10):508-510.
  • Goddard M, Davies HTO, Dawson D, Mannion R, McInnes F. Clinical performance measurement: part 2 - avoiding pitfalls. J Roy Soc Med 2002; 95: 549-551.
  • Mannion R, Davies HTO. Reporting Health Care Performance: learning from the past; prospects for the future. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2002; 8: 215-228.
  • Davies HTO, Washington AE, Bindman AB. 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 HTO. Public release of performance data and quality improvement: internal responses to external data by US health care providers. Quality in Health Care 2001;10: 104-110.
  • Davies HTO, Mannion R, Marshall MN. Treading a Third Way for Quality in Health Care. Public Money & Management 2001; 21(2):6-7.
  • Marshall MN, Davies HTO. Public release of information on quality of care: how are the health service and the public expected to respond? J Hlth Serv Res Pol, 2001;6(3):158-62.
  • Davies HTO. Exploring the pathology of quality failings. Measuring quality isn't the problem - changing it is. J Eval Clin Pract 2001;7:243-251.
  • Marshall MN, Davies HTO. Performance measurement and the management of health care professionals: some topical issues. Disease Management & Health Outcomes, 2000;7(6):305-314.
  • Johnston G, Crombie IK, Davies HTO, Alder B and Millard A. Reviewing Audit: barriers and facilitating factors in closing the audit loop. Quality in Health Care 2000;9:23-36. 
  • Davies HTO, Marshall MN. Public disclosure of performance data: does the public get what the public wants? Lancet 1999;353:1639-40.

Articles on organisational learning

  • Kelly D, Lough M, Rushmer RK, Wilkinson JE, Greig G, Davies HTO. Delivering Feedback on Learning Organisation Characteristics - Using a Learning Practice Inventory (LPI) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2007; 13: 734-740.
  • Rushmer RK, Kelly D, Lough M, Wilkinson JE, Greig G, Davies HTO. The Learning Practice Inventory (LPI): diagnosing and developing Learning Practices in the UK. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2007;13:206-11.
  • Rushmer RK, Davies HTO. Unlearning in healthcare: nature, importance and painful lessons. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2004;13(sup II):ii10-ii15.
  • Rushmer RK, Kelly D, Lough M, Wilkinson JE, Davies HTO. Introducing the Learning Practice - I. The characteristics of Learning Organizations in Primary Care. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice2004; 10:3 375-386.
  • Rushmer, R. K.; Kelly, D.; Lough, M.; Wilkinson, J.E.; Davies, H.T.O.; 2004 Introducing the Learning Practice - II. Becoming a learning practice Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 10:3 387-398
  • Rushmer, R. K.; Kelly, D.; Lough, M.; Wilkinson J.E; Davies, H.T.O. 2004 Introducing the Learning Practice - III. Leadership, empowerment, protected time and reflective practice as core contextual conditions Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 10:3 399-405
  • Wilkinson, J.E., Rushmer, R.K. & Davies, H.T.O 2004 Clinical Governance and the Learning Organisation. Journal of Nursing Management Vol 12:2, pp105-113.
  • Nutley SM, Davies HTO. Developing organisational learning in the NHS. Medical Education. 2001;35:35-42.
  • Davies HTO, Nutley SM. Developing learning organisations in the new NHS. BMJ 2000;320:998-1001.

Articles on inter-professional relationships

  • Dibben MR, Davies HTO. Trustworthy doctors in confidence building systems. Qual Saf Health Care 2004; 13:88-9.
  • Rundall TG, Davies HTO, Hodges CL. Doctor-Manager relationships in the United States and the United Kingdom. Journal of Healthcare Management, 2004;49(3):21-34.
  • Davies HTO, Hodges CL, Rundall TG. Views of doctors and managers on the doctor-manager relationship in the NHS. BMJ 2003;326:626-8.
  • Davies HTO, Harrison S. Trends in doctor-manager relationships. BMJ 2003;326:646-9.
  • Davies HTO, Hodges CL, Rundall TG. Consensus and contention: doctors' and managers' perceptions of the doctor-manager relationship. British Journal of Healthcare Management 2003;9(6):202-8.

Miscellaneous peer-reviewed articles (from 1999 onwards)

  • Powell AE, Davies HTO, Bannister J, Macrae WA. The challenge of improving postoperative pain management: case studies of three acute pain services in the UK National Health Service. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2009 102: 824-831.
  • Powell AE, Davies HTO, Bannister J, Macrae WA, Rhetoric and reality on acute pain services in the UK: A national postal questionnaire survey, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2004, 92 (5): 689-693
  • McLeod G, Davies HTO, Munnoch N, Bannister J, Macrae WA. Post-operative pain relief using thoracic epidurals: outstanding success and disappointing failures. Anaesthesia 2001;56:75-81.
  • Powell AE Davies HTO (2001), Reading and assessing qualitative research, Hospital Medicine, 62 (6): 360-3
  • Williams ACdC, Davies HTO, Chadury Y. Simple pain rating scales hide complex idiosyncratic meanings. Pain 2000;85(3):457-463.
  • Davies HTO, Marshall MN. UK and US health care systems: divided by more than a common language. Lancet 2000;355:336.
  • Johnston G, Davies HTO, Crombie IK. Improving care or professional advantage? What makes clinicians do audit and how do they fare? Health Bulletin, 2000; 58:276-85.
  • Johnston G, Crombie IK, Davies HTO. What stops effective clinical audit? Reports from the front line. Scottish Medical Journal 2000;45:23-27.
  • Davies HTO, Rennie D. Editorial: Independence, governance and trust. JAMA 1999;281:2344-6.
  • Davies HTO. Falling public trust in health services: implications for accountability. J Hlth Serv Res & Pol 1999:4(4):193-4.
  • Davies HTO, Mannion R. The rise of oversight and the decline of mutuality. Public Money & Management 1999;19(2):55-59.

Other Professional Activities

I spent 2003-05 seconded (35% fte) as Deputy Director of the Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) R&D Programme at the Department of Health ( London). The SDO Programme is the key government funder of health care policy and management research in the UK (with a projected budget of c. £10million/year). My main role in this Programme was steering strategic developments and ensuring a better 'connect' between SDO-funded research outputs and DH/NHS research users. In fulfilling this role I was able to draw on the extensive experience and review activity of the ESRC-funded Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU). A more recent role in the SDO Programme (40% fte; 2008-10) was as Director of Knowledge Mobilisation, with an additional commitment (20% fte; 2008-2010) supporting development of the nine CLAHRC collaborations (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care).

As well as being a regular plenary speaker at major overseas research meetings, I have acted as an expert contributor and/or external faculty to US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian training programmes aimed at increasing research use capacity amongst policy makers and senior health care managers. Together with Sandra Nutley, I developed and delivered thirteen two-day courses for the Scottish Executive (2001-05) on 'Using evidence in policy making and implementation'. This knowledge transfer was highly rated by participants (policy makers and government researchers), with typical comments including 'excellent course - best I've ever attended at the Executive', and 'an excellent course - should be compulsory for all policy makers and researchers'.

I also sit on the National Patient Safety Research Portfolio, the national programme researching issues of patient safety in health care. In addition, much of the work of the St Andrews Centre for Public Policy & Management (CPPM) is developed in partnership with government departments, agencies or other bodies, and is then published and actively disseminated in collaboration with these bodies (e.g. The NHS Confederation; The ESRC; The Scottish Executive; The Social Care Institute for Excellence; and The Learning Skills and Development Agency).

October 1998 - August 1999 was spent as International Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California (San Francisco).

August 2005 - February 2006 was spent on research leave as Visiting Professor at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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