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Nils Gutacker
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Biography

Nils Gutacker is Professor of Health Economics. His research focuses on the design and effectiveness of (non-)financial incentives, industrial organisation of health care markets, unwarranted variation in health care provision, measurement of health care quality using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and health inequalities. 

Nils leads the Health Policy team and chairs CHE's Learning & Teaching committee. He is the co-director of the REAL Supply Research Unit and a member of the German Expert Council on Health and Care ('Sachverständigenrat Gesundheit & Pflege').

Nils is a member of the NIHR Policy Research Programme funding panel and the EuroQol Group working group on ‘Population and Health Systems’. He is also the national organiser of the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG).

He holds a PhD in Economics and a MSc in Health Economics, both from the University of York, and a BSc in Health Care Management from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. 

Research

Overview

  • (Cost-)effectiveness and design of incentive schemes (incl. public reporting and pay-for-performance)
  • Design of healthcare markets
  • Health equity and health inequalities
  • Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

Projects

Nils is involved in several research projects, including:

  • Research and Economics Analysis for Long-term sustainable supply (REAL Supply) - Funded by the Health Foundation
  • Mixed methods evaluation of the high-volume low-complexity surgical hubs program (MEASURE) - Funded by NIHR HS&DR
  • What does higher mental healthcare expenditure achieve? - Funded by the Health Foundation
  • Clinical governance and the quality and safety of healthcare in NHS and independent acute hospitals (INTERFACE) - Funded by NIHR HS&DR
  • Methods for reducing health inequalities through pricing of health services - Funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme
  • Socioeconomic disadvantage, COVID symptom persistence and health-related quality of life EQ-5D: An analysis for India - Funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation
  • Evidence to support efficient and effective reduction of health inequality - Funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme
  • Investigating response heterogeneity in the EQ-5D - Funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation 
  • ESHCRU II - Policy Research Unit in the Economics of Health Systems and Interface with Social Care – Funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme

Past Projects

  • Decomposing the socioeconomic gradient in health-related quality of life over the life course (DeQoL-LIFE) - Funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation
  • Case-mix adjustment of EQ-5D health profiles for the purpose of hospital performance assessment - Funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation
  • Partnership for Responsive Policy Analysis and Research (PREPARE) - Funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme
  • Efficiency, cost and quality of mental healthcare provision – Funded by the Health Foundation
  • Cost-effectiveness of deploying GPs in the Emergency Department – Funded by the NIHR HS&DR Programme
  • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the Best Practice Tariff for hip fracture – Funded by NHS England
  • Modelling Healthcare-Evidence Responsive Behaviours (HERB) in Doctors: A proof of concept study – Funded by the University of York Research Priming Fund
  • Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit (ESHCRU) – Funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme grant 103/0001
  • Evidence Based Transformation with the NHS – Funded by the NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber
  • Does better quality of primary care influence admissions and health outcomes for people with serious mental illness (SMI)? A linked patient-level analysis of the full patient care pathway – Funded by the NIHR HS&DR grant 13/54/40
  • Evaluation of Yorkshire Ambulance Service Urgent and Emergency Care nurse internship programme – Funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account
  • Review and Update of the Indices of Deprivation 2015 – Health Deprivation and Disability Domain – Funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Developing an online web tool to inform patients about their likely outcome of surgery to impact on shared decision making in primary care in York – Funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account
  • The role of EQ-5D value sets based on patient preferences in the context of hospital choice in the national PROM programme in England – Funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation
  • Evaluating the development of medical revalidation in England and its impact on organisational performance and medical practice – Funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme grant PR-R9-0114-11002
  • Combining routinely collected data and patient outcomes to measure the outcome/cost ratios of hospital procedures and identify variation across providers - Funded by the NIHR HS&DR grant 09/2000/47
  • Do higher primary care practice performance scores predict lower rates of emergency admissions for persons with serious mental illness? An analysis of secondary panel data - Funded by the NIHR HS&DR grant10/1011/22
  • European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimization (ECHO) - Funded by the 7th European Union Framework Programme
  • Review and Update of the Indices of Deprivation 2015 – Health Deprivation and Disability Domain – Funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government grant CPD/04/106/061

Research group(s)

  • Health Policy Team
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Contact details

Nils Gutacker
Professor
Centre for Health Economics