Staff Profile
Dr Paula Whitty
Honorary Professor of Practice
- Email: paula.whitty@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 245 6708
- Personal Website: www.neqos.nhs.uk
- Address: Research & Development Department, Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust,
St Nicholas Hospital,
Jubilee Road,
Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE3 3XT
Paula Whitty is the Director of the North East Quality Observatory Service (NEQOS) as well as Implementation Lead for the North East and North Cumbria ARC and Joint Director of Research, Innovation and Clinical Effectiveness at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. Previous posts include the national Lead for the ‘Better Metrics’ project and the Clinical Effectiveness Lead at the Healthcare Commission. Originally trained as a consultant in Public Health, Paula continues to be an accredited Public Health Physician and has a Doctorate in patient-reported outcome measurement.
Paula’s own research interests are in ‘implementation research’, measurement and pragmatic evaluation including collaborating previously with Professor David Hunter on the evaluation of the ‘North East Transformation System’.
Areas of expertise
- Quality measurement
- Implementation science
- Corris V, Dormer E, Brown A, Whitty P, Bambra C, Newton JL. Health inequalities are worsening in the North East of England. British Medical Bulletin 2020, 134(1), 63-72.
- Hunter DJ, Erskine J, Small A, McGovern T, Hicks C, Whitty P, Lugsden E. Doing transformational change in the English NHS in the context of "big bang" redisorganisation: Findings from the North East transformation system. Journal of Health Organization and Management 2015, 29(1), 10-24.
- Hunter D, Erskine J, Hicks C, McGovern T, Small A, Lugsden E, Whitty P, Steen IN, Eccles M. A mixed-methods evaluation of transformational change in NHS North East. Health Services Delivery Research 2014, 2(47), 1-169.
- Hunter DJ, Erskine J, Hicks C, McGovern T, Lugsden E, Eccles M, Steen N, Whitty P. Give local solutions a chance to improve care: An evaluation of the North East Transformation System contains some important lessons for future large scale change initiatives in the NHS. Health Service Journal 2014.
- Erskine J, Hunter DJ, Small A, Hicks C, McGovern T, Lugsden E, Whitty P, Steen N, Eccles MP. Leadership and transformational change in healthcare organisations: A qualitative analysis of the North East Transformation System. Health Services Management Research 2013, 26(1), 29-37.