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Connected Health Cities

Other PhD opportunities

Outpatient neurology services in the UK face overwhelming demand that far outstrips clinical capacity, leading to restricted access and long waiting times for patients. This PhD project is expected to encompass a survey of neurology services in the UK of approaches to outpatient neurology coding, a study using natural language processing to investigate alignment of diagnosis lists (principal working diagnosis and secondary diagnoses and comorbidities) across neuroscience centres in the North West, and pilot testing and implementation of ‘live’ prospective coding.

The Connected Health Cities (CHC) project (Innovation Agency, Lancaster University, University of Liverpool) utilised routine healthcare data to improve clinical care. Professor Emsley acted as a deputy clinical lead. This work, which included epilepsy, attracted interest nationally, with the potential for greater involvement in ‘neurology data’ work nationally.

We have used outputs from CHC, including an algorithm to identify patients attending the Emergency Department.

Further information about the CHC project can be found on the Innovation Agency website.

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