The University of Sheffield
Health Economics and Decision Science

Pat Holmes BA (Dunelm), MHSM, DipHSM

Pat Holmes

Business Manager/Research Fellow

Address:
ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0741
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095
E-mail: s.p.holmes@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 2030

Biography

I graduated from the University of Durham in 1971 with an honours degree in French and subsidiary Spanish. In 1976, following examinations, I was awarded the qualification of the Institute of Health Service Administration and became an Associate Member.

Since joining ScHARR in 1994, I have worked as Business Manager for the School. This encompasses a wide range of roles across the School, liaising with people within the University and outside, often in the NHS. I provide support to the Dean and the School's Executive Group and often work on specific projects, for example I worked with the Director of Research and Dean of ScHARR to co-ordinate the School's very successful RAE return in 2007.

In 1995 I was involved in establishing and co-ordinating the Trent Working Group on Acute Purchasing (WGAP). This worked with NHS purchasers in the Trent Region to consider the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health service interventions supporting the Trent DEC. The Group was disbanded with the establishment of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). I now work with ScHARR's team which provide Rapid Reviews for NICE.

Following the WGAP, between 2000 and August 2009 I co-ordinated further similar local evidence-based collaborations facilitated by ScHARR to support NHS commissioners from Trent and Yorkshire and the Humber. They considered the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health service interventions in relation to:

Prior to her appointment at ScHARR, I worked for the Trent Regional Health Authority holding posts as Services Planning Manager (Priority Services), Divisional Planning Manager (Leicestershire) and before that Senior Administrative Assistant (Capital Developments). My involvement in Trent's Performance Management Teams for South Yorkshire and Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire provided me with knowledge of issues of particular importance to NHS purchasers in those areas. It also built on valuable experience gained as Divisional Planning Manager for Leicestershire on the functioning of a very large teaching district.

During my time at Trent, I had a secondment to Sheffield Health Authority to develop first year contracts for medical teaching and research (SIFTR). This built on experience in contracting earlier in my career. It also proved useful in developing and managing the Regional contract for forensic psychiatry.

Before I left Trent my work focused on health gain in relation to mental health and I was responsible for the development of four Health Gain Investment Programmes and three Focus Guides on specialist areas of this subject in the Trent series of publications.

I was also a founder member of The Centre for Mental Health Services Development at King's College, London.

Research Interests

Before joining ScHARR my main interests were policy development and implementation particularly in mental health and learning disability services.

Professional Activities

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