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Office for Health Improvement & Disparities collaboration

A new collaboration has commenced (from 2021) between Lancaster University and OHID (Office for Health Improvement & Disparities) to work on routine data pertaining to neurological admissions in England. Professors Emsley and Knight are currently working on a project to investigate neurological emergency admissions. This study represents the first large scale analysis of neurological emergency admissions in England, and the first OHID-academic partnership in neurology. For the first time, these data are expected to provide some insight into the number and types of emergency admissions with neurological emergency codes.

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.