Newcastle University

Introduction 

My role within the Health Economics group at IHS is to manage the wide range of research bids and funded  projects that focus on the economic evaluation of health care technologies. My primary obejective is to make a difference, specifically that we provide analyses that help the NHS in England and Wales to deploy its health care budget to maximum effect.

 Roles and Responsibilities

Lead for economic evaluation
Economic evaluation team management
Economist for RDS NE
Project management for NIHR funded projects

Qualifications

BSc Econ - University of Wales

MSc Health Econ - York University

PhD Health Econ - Newcastle University

"Economic issues in the provision of antenatal screening programmes for Down's Syndrome"

Research Interests

Health economics - the conduct of economic evlauation alongside clinical trials.

Delivering the economic components of bids to NIHR.

The economics of public health interventions - is it really feasible to use cost-benefit-analysis?

Current Work

Managing a number of NIHR funded projects, working as lead economist with RDS NE, managing a small team of health economists. 

Projects

• A feasibility trial of screening and brief alcohol intervention to prevent hazardous drinking in young people aged 14-15 in a high school setting (SIPS JR-HIGH)
  Project Leader(s): Dr D Newbury-Birch, Professor E Kaner, Coulton S, Deluca P, Drummond C, Gilvarry E, Professor P McArdle, Professor E McColl, Howel D, Deverill M, Tate L.
• Cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention to reduce fear of falling in older fallers attending a community falls service: Therapy development and randomised controlled trial
  Project Leader(s): Dr Steve Parry (IAH)
• How can health services contribute most effectively to facilitating successful transition of young people with complex health needs from childhood to adulthood?
  Project Leader(s): Professor Allan Colver
• Improving Diabetes prescribing, Examining and Advising (IDEA) trial
  Project Leader(s): Dr Justin Presseau, Prof Eileen FS Kaner
• INVasive Evaluation before Surgical Treatment of Incontinence Gives Added Therapeutic Effect?: a pragmatic multicentre pilot study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial
  Project Leader(s): Chief Investigator: Mr Paul Hilton (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust)

• MSc in Public Health and Health Services Research

• MBBS Personal Tutor

• Liu JJ, Davidson E, Bhopal RS, White M, Johnson MRD, Netto G, Deverill M, Sheikh A. Adapting health promotion interventions to meet the needs of ethnic minority groups: mixed methods evidence synthesis. Health Technology Assessment Monograph Series 2012, 16(44), 469 p.
• Liu JJ, Davidson E, Bhopal RS, White M, Johnson MRD, Netto G, Deverill M, Sheikh A. Adapting health promotion interventions to meet the needs of ethnic minority groups: mixed-methods evidence synthesis. Health Technology Assessment 2012, 16(44), 1-469.
• Wilson GB, McGovern R, Antony G, Cassidy P, Deverill M, Graybill E, Gilvarry E, Hodgson M, Kaner EFS, Laing K, McColl E, Newbury-Birch D, Rankin J. Brief intervention to reduce risky drinking in pregnancy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 2012, 13(1), 174.
• Haighton C, Moffatt S, Howel D, McColl E, Milne E, Deverill M, Rubin G, Aspray T, White M. The Do-Well study: protocol for a randomised controlled trial, economic and qualitative process evaluations of domiciliary welfare rights advice for socio-economically disadvantaged older people recruited via primary health care. BMC Public Health 2012, 12(1), 382.
• Murdoch M, McColl EM, Howel D, Deverill M, Buckley B, Lucas M, Chapple CR, Tincello DG, Armstrong N, Brennand C, Shen J, Vale L, Hilton P. INVESTIGATE-I (INVasive Evaluation before Surgical Treatment of Incontinence Gives Added Therapeutic Effect?): study protocol for a mixed methods study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial of the clinical utility of invasive urodynamic testing. Trials 2011, 12(1), 169.
• Deverill M, Lancsar E, Snaith VBA, Robson SC. Antenatal care for first time mothers: a discrete choice experiment of women's views on alternative packages of care. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 2010, 151(1), 33-37.
• Armstrong N, Vale L, Deverill M, Nabi G, McClinton S, N'Dow J, Pickard R, BPE Study Grp. Surgical treatments for men with benign prostatic enlargement: cost effectiveness study. British Medical Journal 2009, 338, b1288.
• Lourenco T, Armstrong N, N'Dow J, Nabi G, Deverill M, Pickard R, Vale L, MacLennan G, Fraser C, McClinton S, Wong S, Coutts A, Mowatt G, Grant A. Systematic review and economic modelling of effectiveness and cost utility of surgical treatments for men with benign prostatic enlargement. Health Technology Assessment 2008, 12(35).
• Deverill M, Robson S. Women's preferences in screening for Down syndrome. Prenatal Diagnosis 2006, 26(9), 837-841.
• Snaith VJ, Howel D, Chadwick T, Deverill M, Hewison J, Sturgiss SN, Robson SC. [abstract] First trimester ultrasound screening - The psychological consequences of termination of pregnancy for foetal abnormality. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 2004, 22(3), 239.
• Brazier J, Roberts J, Deverill M. The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36. Journal of Health Economics 2002, 21(2), 271-292.