Ms Beth Parkinson

Research Fellow

Affiliations:

Division of Population Health, Health Services Research & Primary Care (L5), Division of Population Health, Health Services Research & Primary Care
Division of Population Health, Health Services Research & Primary Care, School of Health Sciences
Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, Alliance Manchester Business School

Overview

Beth is currently undertaking a PhD in Health Economics funded by The Wellcome Trust. Her research will explore the relationship between avoidable emergency care utilisation and the quality and availability of primary care.

Biography

Beth completed her bachelors degree at the University of Manchester in 2013 with a first class honours in Economics. She went on to obtain a MSc in Economics with distinction from the University of Manchester in 2015. Her masters dissertation titled 'How do hospitals respond to price changes in accident and emergency departments?', supervised by Professor Matt Sutton and Rachel Meacock, analysed the incentive effects of changes to how English hospitals were reimbursed for A&E attendances.

Shortly after completing her MSc, she joined the Manchester Centre for Health Economics as a Research Associate in November 2015. In September 2017 she registered as a student on the PhD in Health Economics program at the University of Manchester