Healthcare costs
Moving elective procedures out of general hospitals can increase quality and reduce cost of emergency services, says 10-year study of all English NHS hospitals co-authored by Professor Stefan Scholtes of Cambridge Judge Business School. Separating elective services out of general…
Management Science Review Blog: A route to decomplexifying hospitals
“Hospitals are some of the most managerially intractable institutions in the annals of capitalism.” This is the stark conclusion that Clayton Christensen, Grossman and Hwang draw in their seminal book The Innovator’s Prescription, write co-authors Michael Freeman, Nicos Savva, and…
AI and COVID-19
Five important challenges in dealing with the coronavirus crisis can be addressed through machine learning and artificial intelligence, says article co-authored by Professor Stefan Scholtes of Cambridge Judge. Professor Stefan Scholtes Five of the most important challenges in responding to…
Improving healthcare provision through collaboration
Never has it been so pivotal to strengthen primary care delivery, in order to prevent overload in hospitals. One of Cambridge Judge Business School's PhD students, Harshita Kajaria-Montag, works together with faculty member Professor Stefan Scholtes and primary care provider…
Research repurposed
Experts at Cambridge Judge apply their research to the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic is being analysed by Cambridge Judge Business School faculty and other experts from various angles, and their thoughts have been published in different publications including the…
Coronavirus research
Working with Public Health England and the NHS in the East of England on responses to COVID-19 (coronavirus). A team of a dozen faculty and PhD students at Cambridge Judge Business School is working with Public Health England and the…
Scienmag: Admitting patterns of junior doctors may be behind ‘weekend effect’ in hospitals, study suggests
A new study links the ‘weekend effect’ of increased hospital mortality to junior doctors admitting a lower proportion of healthy patients at the weekend compared to weekdays. “There has been previous research on how physician-level factors influence patient care, but…
Admitting patterns of junior doctors may be behind ‘weekend effect’ in hospitals, study suggests
Study led by University of Cambridge researchers links the ‘weekend effect’ of increased hospital mortality to junior doctors admitting a lower proportion of healthy patients at the weekend compared to weekdays. The "weekend effect" of increased hospital mortality has been…
Healthcare leadership
Primary Care Innovation Academy Programme is launched by Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). An innovative 10-day leadership programme for emerging primary care leaders in medicine, jointly organised by Cambridge Judge Business School and…
Separate and concentrate
Mortality rates would decline if hospitals had separate units for routine and complex procedures along with more effective routing of patients, says a new study co-authored by Professor Stefan Scholtes of Cambridge Judge based on 250,000 patient episodes at 60…
