Professor Mark Exworthy

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Co-director, MBA Clinical Leadership

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 3213
Email: m.exworthy@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Address: School of Social Policy and Society, HSMC
Park House
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT, United Kingdom

Mark is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University 麻豆精选 and Co-Director of the MBA Clinical Leadership course.

Qualifications

PhD, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
BSc, Loughborough University
PG Certificate: Academic Practice in Teaching and Learning
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Biography

Mark has previously held posts at Southampton University, London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), Oxford Brookes and Royal Holloway University of London. He was also a Harkness Fellow in health care policy, based at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) (funded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York).

Teaching

Course director, `Health Management and Leadership’ (HML) inter-calation course for medical students.

Postgraduate supervision

Mark is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in the following areas:

Governance
health policy
professionalism
policy implementation

Research

Mark's research interests fall into 3 :

Governance and implementation relating to policies to tackle health inequalities and other social `problems'.
Professionals and managerialism in health care organisations (especially relating to management of clinical performance).
Decentralisation in health care organisations.

Mark's research has been funded by the ESRC, NHS (Dept of Health and NIHR), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, NHS Confederation and the Commonwealth Fund of New York. He has been involved as PI or co-PI on research grants totalling £2.5m.

Other activities

Chair, Society for Studies in Organising Health Care (SHOC): and

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Samarasinghe, BSW, Millar, R, Exworthy, M & Aunger, J 2025, '', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 25, 1445.

Exworthy, M, Gauly, J, Parsons, J, Green, K & Murphy, N 2025, '', BMJ Leader.

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, '', Medical Humanities.

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Hardwick, R & Smith, C 2024, '', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 298-307.

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Gibson, A, Stuart, J, Jochum, V, Allen, P, Clark, J, Mannion, R & Asthana, S 2024, '', Health and Social Care Delivery Research, vol. 12, no. 39.

Exworthy, M, Lunt, N, Tuck, P & Mistry, R 2024, '', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 308-316.

Ansmann, L, N枚st, S, K枚rner, M, Auschra, C, Bal, R, B枚ddeker, M, Bode, I, Braithwaite, J, Breidenbach, C, Coors, M, Demirer, I, Exworthy, M, Harst, L, Heuser, C, Hoffmann, J, K枚berlein-Neu, J, Krajic, K, Maniatopoulos, G, Mannion, R, M枚hler, R, Pfaff, H, Rind, E, Schnack, MAH, Wagner, MAA, Weigl, M, Wensing, M, Wiig, S, Wild, E, Wilhelm, H, Wirtz, M & G枚tz, K 2024, '', Das Gesundheitswesen.

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, '', World Medical & Health Policy.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Exworthy, M & Hunter, DJ 2024, . in M Powell, D Beland & C Wendt (eds), Research handbook of health care policy. Edward Elgar, pp. 170-190.

Exworthy, M & Nash, D 2024, . in A McDermott, P Hyde, A Avgar & L Fitzgerald (eds), Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. Edward Elgar, pp. 318-334.

Chapter

Mannion, R & Exworthy, M 2025, . in Organising the Health Care Workforce: Strategic Responses to the Challenges and Dilemmas Faced by Health and Care Services. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, pp. 235-256.

Comment/debate

Samarasinghe, BSW, Millar, R & Exworthy, M 2025, '', BMJ Leader, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 292-294.

Exworthy, M & Mannion, R 2025, '', Healthcare Papers, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 60-65.

Murphy, N, Exworthy, M, Gauly, J, Parsons, J & Green, K 2024, '', BMJ, vol. 385, q1032.

Review article

N枚st鈥�, S, Miedaner, F, Wagner, A, Beckmann, M, Exworthy, M, G枚tz鈥�, K, K枚rner鈥�, M, Mannion, R, Pfaff, H, Piotrowski, A, Hammer, A & Ansmann, L 2024, '', Das Gesundheitswesen.

Expertise

Health and Social care

Health policy and management including NHS reform