Experience
Developed a finance and activity model for a healthcare provider organization to inform their costing and pricing strategy in a competitive procurement exercise
Project included working with the provider’s finance and service delivery teams to build a finance and activity model in MS Excel of the baseline activities, and for the new model of care. This helped to expose any shortfalls in efficiency gains that would be required. The second stage involved the creation of a risk-based pricing model to inform the provider of the appropriate pricing strategy given the risks associated with failing to deliver against the outcome-based targets. Following completion of our modelling work, the provider was successful in its bid for a seven-year service contract with the local purchaser.
Produced technical analysis of the likely impact of changes in the business taxation treatment for live music festivals.
Led a team in a rapid project to support our client in its discussions with stakeholders about the potential impact of a change in the way that land used for hosting live music festivals in the UK is taxed.
Oversaw an economic evaluation of national healthcare programme targeted at supporting individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer, and are now post-treatment and recovering from the symptoms of cancer and side effects of the treatment.
Project Director of a large national scale evaluation of the Macmillan Cancer Support Cancer Recovery Programme. Oversaw a team of economists and researchers who collated evidence on the costs and benefits of the cancer recovery programme, in order to produce for Macmillan a report that will demonstrate the value of money for the different components of the programme.
In a previous role, led the team that provided quantitative and economic analysis to inform the UK Government’s outsourcing of the supervision of offenders in the community, which involved introducing an outcome based component to the payment mechanism.
Whilst as a Senior Economist working for the UK Government, Gareth led a team that provided the economic and quantitative analysis to support the policy development and implementation of the outsourcing of over £500m worth of business by the UK Government. His team produced the financial and performance analysis, and the analytical input into the design of the payment mechanism.
Provided oversight on a project modelling the stocks and flows of patients through Accident and Emergency Departments in UK hospitals, to help the regulatory body develop guidelines about the appropriate amount and skill mix of nurse staffing levels.
In a project for one of the UK Government’s healthcare regulatory organisations, Gareth led a team that analysed the trade-offs that exist in A&E departments in the UK; namely how greater numbers of staff and more highly skilled staff could impact on patient experiences and outcomes, but at what costs, and what the optimal level of staff numbers and skill mix was, given the limited financial budgets of the hospital. This economic analysis was undertaken using System Dynamics modelling, combined with economic evaluation.