Lab awarded Sparks funding to pursue research in healthcare settings
The Lab is delighted to have secured Sparks funding from the University of York to develop administrative fairness research in healthcare settings.
As the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 75th year and demands on its services continue to grow, the Administrative Fairness in Healthcare project seeks to solve the question of how to ensure that its one million daily users are able to effectively navigate the ever-increasing number of digital healthcare technologies.
“Millions of decisions are taken everyday in the NHS, but not all of them are clinical,” said Dr Jed Meers, co-lead of the project and a lecturer at York Law School. “There is increasing evidence that patients’ experiences of all kinds of processes - from booking appointments, to digital GP appointments - impact their willingness to engage with treatment and have other outcomes. These processes need robust evaluation to ensure they are helping to support positive patient outcomes.”
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor Matthias Ruth said: “I want to congratulate our first Sparks researchers. Their applications have demonstrated the real spirit of the scheme - ambitious ideas sparked by their curiosity and a desire to improve the world we live in. They've shown real vision and a determination to be breaking ground for novel and exciting areas of research.”