Staff

Mr Jonathan Erskine

(email at jonathan.erskine@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Jonathan's background is in Philosphy and Art History, but he worked for a number of years as a technical writer and journalist, and later as an IT manager.  Following studies in Natural Sciences with the Open University, Jonathan joined the School for Medicine and Health in the Centre for Clinical Management Development, before joining the Centre for Public Policy and Health as Research Associate in 2008.  His research interests are in the areas of health service reform, the boundaries between primary and secondary care, and the relationship between the design of health service systems and the built healthcare environment.

Jonathan has had a long association with the European Health Property Network (www.euhpn.eu) where he is Executive Director.  He is a non-executive director with NHS Stockton, and Vice-Chair of the Board.

BA (Hons) Cantab, 1979-83, Philosophy and Art History.
Technical author and project leader for documentation programmes with  with ICL, Olivetti, NCR,1984-87.
IT Manager with Escolas Cambridge, Lda, Portugal, 1988-96
Natural Sciences studies with OU, 1997-2004; voluntary work with CAB and Alzheimer’s Society.
Joined the Centre for Clinical Management Development, University of Durham in November 2004 as Research Associate; transferred to the Centre for Public Policy and Health in 2008.
Executive Director, European Health Property Network (EuHPN), 2008 - present.

Conferences/workshops attended

EuHPN Edinburgh, UK, November 2004
EuHPN Design Impact Study peer review, Amsterdam, February 2005
EuHPN Oulu, Finland, June 2005 - speaker: HAI and the hospital environment
EuHPN Design Impact Study launch, Soesterberg, Netherlands, October 2005
Scottish Health Department single room/HAI peer review, November 2005.
EuHPN Budapest, Hungary, April 2006 – speaker: Future Regional Health Care.
Interreg IIIc Health ClusterNET Capital Investment Workshop, April 2006 – speaker: ICT in Health Care Systems.

EuHPN Workshop, Paris 2007

Conferences/workshops organised

Research Projects

Department of Geography

• Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)

School of Applied Social Sciences

• Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)

Research Interests

• Health system planning; capital investment; European health systems; health facilities and assets

Selected Publications

Books: sections

• Degeling, P & Erskine, J (2009). New models of long-term care and implications for service redesign. In Investing in Hospitals of the Future. Rechel, B, Wright, S, Edwards, N, Dowdeswell, B & McKee, M World Health Organization.
• van Laarhoven, H & Erskine, J (2009). Orbis Medical Park, Sittard, Netherlands. In Capital Investment for Health: Case Studies from Europe. Rechel, B, Erskine, J, Dowdeswell, B, Wright, S & McKee, M World Health Organization.
• Macleod, M & Erskine, J (2009). Prevention is better than cure. In Lessons Learned from Accident Investigations. Stoop, J European Safety, Reliability & Data Association (ESReDA).
• Erskine, J, Romeri, M, Agger, S & Rosini, D (2009). Strategic Asset Planning: An Integrated Regional Health Care System, Tuscany, Italy. In Capital Investment for Health: Case Studies from Europe. Rechel, B, Erskine, J, Dowdeswell, B, Wright, S & McKee, M World Health Organization.
• Dowdeswell B & Erskine J (2008). Systematisation of clinical care and health capital planning. In Changing Clinical Care. Gray A, Degeling P & Colebatch H Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.

Conference papers

• Mills, G R, Erskine J, Price A D F, Phiri M & Sellars P (2012), Developing a world-leading and smart regulatory design quality framework for healthcare estates in England, HaCIRIC International Conference 2012. Cardiff, Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre, 38-45.

Journal papers: academic

• Erskine, J, Hunter, D J, Small, A, Hicks, C, McGovern, T, Lugsden, E, Whitty, P, Steen, N & Eccles, M P (Accepted). Leadership and transformational change in healthcare organisations: a qualitative analysis of the North East Transformation System. Health Services Management Research
• Erskine, J, Hunter, DJ, Small, A, Hicks, C, McGovern, T, Lugsden, E, Whitty, P, Steen, N & Eccles, MP (Forthcoming). The role of leaders in enabling transformational change in healthcare organisations: Lessons from the North East Transformation System. Health Services Management 2.26.
• Erskine, J, Hunter, DJ, Hicks, C, McGovern, T, Scott, E, Lugsden, E, Kunonga, E & Whitty, P (2009). New development: First steps towards an evaluation of the North East Transformation System. Public Money & Management 29(5): 273-276.

Reports: official

• Mahadkar, S Mills, G & Erskine, J (2010). European Health Property Network Annual Workshop, Stockholm 2010. Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre; European Health Property Network..
• Erskine, J & Dowdeswell, B (2009). Decentralised Healthcare Facilities. TNO-Healthcare; Ministry of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sport, Netherlands.
• Erskine, J (2009). Reflections on the international workshop ‘Integrated Care Models and the Impact on Services and Infrastructure’, Trondheim. SINTEF Health; Ministry of Health, Norway..

Reports: technical

• Erskine, J (2011). Guidelines and Standards for Healthcare Buildings: A European Health Property Network Survey. European Health Property Network.

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Grants Awarded

• 2009: An Evaluation of Transformational Change in NHS North East