Dr Philip Kinghorn

Philip Kinghorn

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7620
Email
p.kinghorn@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Health Economics Unit
Department of Applied Health Sciences
IOEM Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Philip is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation.  In particular, Philip is interested in the inclusion of broader outcomes within economic evaluations of health and social care interventions and the use of the capability approach within health economics.

Qualifications

  • Phd in Health Economics (2010), University of East Anglia
  • MA in Economics (2004), University of East Anglia
  • BA (Hons) in Economics & Politics (2003), University of East Anglia

Biography

Philip was awarded his PhD in Health Economics in 2010 by the University of East Anglia. The PhD explored the use of the Capability Approach to assess and value quality of life, using chronic pain as a case study.

In 2010, Philip took up a post as a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, initially working on an NIHR funded and MRC managed project to value patients’ experiences of receiving health care services.

In 2012 Philip moved to the Health Economics Unit at the University 麻豆精选 to work on a European Research Council funded project relating to end of life care (EconEndLife).  With the EconEndLife project concluding in 2015, Philip began an MRC funded project to establish a monetary threshold for ICECAP in the context of public health and social care in the spring of 2016. The project was funded as a New Investigator Grant.

More recently, Philip has been working on several research projects relating to social care.

Philip has experience of conducting qualitative research, systematic reviews and of using online survey methods.  

Teaching

Philip is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Current

  • Lecturing on the following courses/programmes: MSc Health Economics and Health Policy; Masters in Public Health (MPH); Undergraduate Economics
  • Dissertation Supervision: MSc Health Economics & Health Policy
  • Module Coordinator: Undergraduate Health Economics (delivered in partnership with Birmingham Business School); Introduction to Health Economics (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy)

Previous

  • Module Co-Coordinator: Policy and Economics of Healthcare Delivery (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy).
  • Lecturer: Risk Management Module from the MSc in Occupational Health
  • Undergraduate & postgraduate microeconomics (lectures & tutorials)

Postgraduate supervision

Current

  • Lead supervisor: Gareth Hooper (Start date: September 2022).  Gareth’s PhD is exploring the economic evidence base for interventions to manage frailty.

Previous

  • Co-Supervisor for Alastair Canaway's PhD, "Capturing Family Benefits of End of Life Care for use in Economic Evaluation".  Graduated Winter 2015.
  • Co-supervisor for Chidubem Ogwulu’s PhD, “Developing and piloting approaches for the valuation of outcomes associated with sexually transmitted infections in order to construct quality adjusted life years (QALYs) for use in economic evaluation”.  Graduated Winter 2018.
  • Co-supervisor for Henry Nwankwo’s PhD, “The impact of different trajectories of dying and associated care settings on the opportunity for a good death”.  Graduated Summer 2020. 

Philip is interested in supervising doctoral research related to the following topics:

  • Applications of the Capability approach within health economics
  • The application of health economic methods to social care
  • Assessing & valuing outcomes for inclusion in economic analysis
  • Costs and outcomes associated with the provision of informal care

Doctoral research

PhD title
Developing a Capability Approach to Measure and Value Quality of Life: An Application to Chronic Pain.

Research

Philip is currently working on several grants relating to adult social care and is currently the Principal Investigator for an NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project on self-funding and capital depletion, which started in March 2022.

In 2016, Philip was awarded an MRC New Investigator Grant. The project, “Investigating deliberative methods for setting a monetary capability threshold in the context of social care and public health”, was conducted over three years.

Until September 2015, Philip was working on an ERC funded project, relating to care at the end of life.

Philip was also previously a co-applicant on the NIHR HTA funded project "A study to assess feasibility of a randomised multi-centre clinical trial in children and adults, to examine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of pressure garments to improve scarring."

Research Groups and Centres:

  • Health Economists’ Study Group
  • International Health Economics Association
  • European Health Economics Association

Other activities

  • Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research within the Department of Applied Health Sciences.
  • Member of the London Region Committee, NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
  • Frontline advisor for the West Midlands Research Design Service.

Publications

Kinghorn P & Afentou N (2021) “” Social Science & Medicine DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113977

Nwankwo H, Coast J, Hewison A, Kinghorn P, Madathil S & Bailey C (2022) “A think-alound study of the feasibility of patients with end-stage organ failure completing the ICECAP-SCM” Accepted by Palliative Medicine.  DOI: 10.1177/02692163221122979

Husbands S, Mitchell P, Floredin I, Peters TJ, Kinghorn P, Byford S, Anand P, Bailey C & Coast J “The Children and Young People Quality of Life Study: A protocol for the qualitative development of attributes for capability wellbeing measures for use in health economic evaluation with children and young people”.  Wellcome Open Research.  March 2022, 7:117, DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17801.1.

Kinghorn, P, Canaway A, Bailey C, Al-Janabi & Coast J “A Deliberative Approach to Valuing Capabilities: Assessing and Valuing Changes in the Well-Being of those Close to Patients Receiving Supportive End of Life Care”.  Journal of Human Development & Capabilities.  Published online 01 December 2021.

Mitchell P, Husbands S, Byford S, Kinghorn P, Bailey C, Peters TJ, Coast J (2021) “Challenges in developing capability measures for children and young people for use in the economic evaluation of health and care interventions”. Health Economics.  First published online: 25 May 2021

Kinghorn P, Afentou N (2020)  PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236584. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236584

Kinghorn P, (2019) “” Social Science & Medicine: In Press: 

Kinghorn P & Coast J, “” Palliative Medicine. Article first published online: March 27, 2019, doi.org/10.1177/0269216319839635 

Proud L, McLoughlin C, Kinghorn P. (2018) “”, Quality of Life Research. 28(6): 1429-1439.

Bailey C, Kinghorn P, Hewison A, Radcliffe C, Flynn T, Huynh E, & Coast J. “”, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.  Published Online First: 12 November 2018. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001582

Canaway A, Al-Janabi H, Kinghorn P, Bailey C & Coast J. (2019) “” PharmacoEconomics.  37(4):573-583. doi: 10.1007/s40273-019-00786-5.

Moiemen N, Mathers J, Jones L, Bishop J, Kinghorn P, Monahan M, Calvert M, Slinn G, Gardiner F, Bamford A, Wright S, Litchfield I, Andrews N, Turner K, Grant M, Deeks J. (2018) “”. Health Technology Assessment. 22:36 (ISSN 1366-5278). 

Blackburn S, McLachlan S, Jowett S, Kinghorn P, Gill P, Higginbottom A, Rhodes C, Stevenson F, Jinks C. (2018) “” BMC Research Involvement and Engagement. 4:16, DOI: 10.1186/s40900-018-0100-8

Coast J, Bailey C, Orlando R, Armour K, Perry R, Jones L & Kinghorn P. (2018) “”.  The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. 11:5, pp539-546: DOI 10.1007/s40271-018-0310-z

Kinghorn P & Coast J. (2018) “”. PLOS ONE.  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193181

Jones L, Calvert M, Moiemen N, Deeks JJ, Bishop J, Kinghorn P, Mathers, J. “” Burns.  In Press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2017.09.004

Andrews A, Jones LJ, Moiemen N, Calvert M, Kinghorn P, Litchfield I, Bishop J, Deeks JJ, Mathers J. “” Burns.  In Press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2017.09.003

Huynh E, Coast J, Rose J, Kinghorn P, Flynn T.  (2017) “”.  Social Science & Medicine, 189; pp114-128; doi. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.07.012

Ogwulu C, Jackson LJ, Kinghorn P, Roberts TE.  (2017) “” Value in Health.  20:8; pp1180-1197.

Kamaruzaman H, Kinghorn P, Oppong R. (2017) “Cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions for the management of osteoarthritis: a systematic review of the literature” BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.  18:183, DOI 10.1186/s12891-017-1540-2.

Andronis L, Kinghorn P, Qiao S, Whitehurst D, Durrell S, McLeod H. .  Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.  Online first (Aug 2016): doi: 10.1007/s40258-016-0268-8

Canaway A, Al-Janabi H, Kinghorn P, Bailey C, Coast J. (2016)   Palliative Medicine.  31:1, pp53-62. doi: 10.1177/0269216316650616

Campbell CL, Bailey C, Armour K, Perry R, Orlando R, Kinghorn P, Jones L, Coast J. (2016)   International Journal of Palliative Nursing.  22:7, pp324-332.

Bailey C, Orlando R, Kinghorn P, Armour K, Perry R, Jones L, Coast J. (2016)  - Measuring quality of life amongst patients receiving supportive and palliative care.  Palliative Medicine. 30:7, pp642-652. DOI: 10.1177/0269216315624890

Coast J, Huynh E, Kinghorn P, Flynn T (2016) , PharmacoEconomics, 34, 499-508.

Kinghorn P (2015)“Exploring Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Where next?”, Journal of Human Development & Capabilities. 16:4, 600-616

Coast J, Kinghorn P, Mitchell P (2015) , The Patient: Patient-Centred Outcomes Research. 8, 119-126

Kinghorn P, Robinson A, Smith RD, (2015) “Developing a Capability-Based Questionnaire as an Alternative Method for Assessing Well-Being in Patients with Chronic Pain”, Social Indicators Research, 120:897–916.

Adlard N, Kinghorn P, Frew E (2014)  Value in Health, 17, 454-461.

Ryan M, Kinghorn P, Entwistle VA, Francis JJ (2014) , Social Science and Medicine, 106, 194-203

Kinghorn P & Coast J (2013)  Journal of Palliative Medicine, 16(12) 1614-1616.

Entwistle V, Firnigl D, Ryan M, Francis J, Kinghorn P (2012) “Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 17 (2) 70-78.

Book Chapters:

Hall, K. & Kinghorn, P. (Nov 2021), “Measuring Outcomes in Social Care”, in Hazenberg R & Paterson-Young C (ed). Social impact measurement for a sustainable future. Palgrave Macmillan.

Coast J, Bailey C, Canaway A, Kinghorn P. (2016) “Measuring and Valuing Outcomes for Care at the End of Life: The Capability Approach” in Round J. (Ed.) Care at the End of Life: An economics Perspective, Springer International Publishing, London.

Coast J, Kinghorn P, Owen-Smith A. (2017) “Designing qualitative research studies in health economics”, in Coast J. (Ed.) Qualitative Methods for Health Economics, Rowman & Littlefield International, London.

Canaway A, Al-Janabi H, Kinghorn P, Bailey C, Coast J. (2017) “Incorporating novel qualitative methods within health economics: The use of pictorial tools”, in Coast J. (Ed.) Qualitative Methods for Health Economics, Rowman & Littlefield International, London.

Bailey C, Kinghorn P, Orlando R, Coast J. “Using ‘think-aloud’ and interview data to explore patient and proxy completion of health and capability measures at the end of life”, in Coast J. (Ed.) Qualitative Methods for Health Economics, Rowman & Littlefield International, London.

Kinghorn P, Canaway A, Bailey C, Coast J. “Use of deliberative methods to facilitate and enhance understanding of the weighting of survey attributes”, in Coast J. (Ed.) Qualitative Methods for Health Economics, Rowman & Littlefield International, London.

Coast J, Al-Janabi H, Jackson L, Kinghorn P, Owen-Smith A. “Afterword: Walking the disciplinary tightrope”, in Coast J. (Ed.) Qualitative Methods for Health Economics, Rowman & Littlefield International, London.