Simon Jones
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Dr Simon Jones PhD, MSc Senior Research Fellow
National Nursing Research Unit
Room 4.27a, James Clerk Maxwell Building
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7848 3042
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 3069
Background
Simon has a joint appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London and as Chief Statistician at Dr Foster Intelligence. Previously he was Head of Operational Research and Information Services at Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust. Prior to this, Simon’s career was split between working as a quantitative researcher in academia and various senior management roles in both health and social care. Simon is a regular columnist in the Health Services Journal.
Research
Time Series Analysis, especially in the area of applying non-linear models to forecasting demand for emergency care.
Analysis of health outcome data from large data sets like SUS/HES
Health care related mathematical modelling and computer simulation
Analysis of health outcome data from large data sets like SUS/HES
Health care related mathematical modelling and computer simulation
Academic keywords
Models/Statistical
Models/Mathematical
Time Series Analysis
Computer Simulation
Probability
Models/Mathematical
Time Series Analysis
Computer Simulation
Probability
Teaching/ supervision
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in the areas:
- Primary Health Care MSc
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Operational research
Special interest/ areas of expertise
- Time series analysis
- Operational research
- Simulation
Additional roles/ relationships
- Steering group member of MASHNet
- Member The Operational Research Society
- Member The British Computer Society
- Member (Level 3) UK Council for Health Informatics Professions
Selected publications
A full list of publications is available here.
Z N. Cooper, A McGuire, S Jones, J Le Grand (2009) Equity, Waiting Times and the NHS Reforms, BMJ - In press to appear May 2009
Jones S, Forde J (2009) A look at non-attendance at outpatient appointments , Health Services Journal, 19 February, pp19
Jones S (2008) Waiting times: cutting inequalities, Health Services Journal , 17 January pp21
Jones S (2008) Readmission is not simply correlated with length of stay, Health Services Journal 6 March, pp 21
Jones S (2008) Timely Admissions reflects efficiency, Health Services Journal, 22 May, pp23
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Elective procedures: all in a day’s work , Health Services Journal, 19 June, pp25
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Who is causing the cancellations? Health Services Journal, 17 July, pp21
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Admissions up for treatable illness, Health Services Journal, 7 August, pp19
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Why wait for emergency surgery, Health Services Journal, 7 October, pp19
Jones S and Barnett N (2008) Why admission day effects outcome, Health Services Journal, 30 October,pp17
Jones S, Duncan E, Thomas N, Walters J, Dick, MC, Height, SE, Stephens AD, Thein, SW2 and Rees, DC (2005), Windy weather and low humidity are associated with an increased number of hospital admissions for acute pain and sickle cell disease in an urban environment with a maritime temperate climate, British Journal of Haematology 131 (4): 530-533
Joy, M. & Jones, SA. (2005), Transient probabilities for a queue with applications to waiting list management in the NHS, Health Care Management Science, 8, pp. 231-236
Thurlow V, Ozevlat H, Jones SA and Bailey IR (2005) Establishing a practical blood platelet threshold to avoid reporting spurious potassium results due to throbocytosis, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 42 (3): 196-199(4)
Jones SA, Joy MP, Pearson J (2003) Forecasting demand of emergency care, Health Care Management Science, 5(4):297-305
Z N. Cooper, A McGuire, S Jones, J Le Grand (2009) Equity, Waiting Times and the NHS Reforms, BMJ - In press to appear May 2009
Jones S, Forde J (2009) A look at non-attendance at outpatient appointments , Health Services Journal, 19 February, pp19
Jones S (2008) Waiting times: cutting inequalities, Health Services Journal , 17 January pp21
Jones S (2008) Readmission is not simply correlated with length of stay, Health Services Journal 6 March, pp 21
Jones S (2008) Timely Admissions reflects efficiency, Health Services Journal, 22 May, pp23
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Elective procedures: all in a day’s work , Health Services Journal, 19 June, pp25
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Who is causing the cancellations? Health Services Journal, 17 July, pp21
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Admissions up for treatable illness, Health Services Journal, 7 August, pp19
Jones S and Davies M (2008) Why wait for emergency surgery, Health Services Journal, 7 October, pp19
Jones S and Barnett N (2008) Why admission day effects outcome, Health Services Journal, 30 October,pp17
Jones S, Duncan E, Thomas N, Walters J, Dick, MC, Height, SE, Stephens AD, Thein, SW2 and Rees, DC (2005), Windy weather and low humidity are associated with an increased number of hospital admissions for acute pain and sickle cell disease in an urban environment with a maritime temperate climate, British Journal of Haematology 131 (4): 530-533
Joy, M. & Jones, SA. (2005), Transient probabilities for a queue with applications to waiting list management in the NHS, Health Care Management Science, 8, pp. 231-236
Thurlow V, Ozevlat H, Jones SA and Bailey IR (2005) Establishing a practical blood platelet threshold to avoid reporting spurious potassium results due to throbocytosis, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 42 (3): 196-199(4)
Jones SA, Joy MP, Pearson J (2003) Forecasting demand of emergency care, Health Care Management Science, 5(4):297-305