Summary
Alex Carter has been a health economist in the Centre for Health Policy at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London since 2013. He is an associate academic at the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics & Political Science, since 2017.
His research focuses on the economic impact of quality improvement programs in the NHS, drawing on economic evaluation methods, management science and operational research. As part of the Imperial NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (PSTRC), Alex's PhD (part-time) aims to assess the economic impact of a nationwide patient safety initiative, the National Reporting and Learning System (or NRLS). His PhD is supervised by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi and Professor Elias Mossialos (LSE/Imperial).
Alex's other academic interests include pharmaceutical economics and policy, and the evaluation of eHealth and mobile health technologies. Alex leads the first module (of six) on the NHS Digital Academy, called the 'Essentials of Health Systems'. The Academy was commissioned by NHS England to train 300 Chief Informatics Officers and Chief Clinical Informatics Officers in the NHS over three years. Alex also co-leads the 'Health Systems and Policy' and 'Financing Healthcare' modules on the Masters in Health Policy and Masters in Patient Safety at Imperial College and provides several lectures on both. He also teaches quantitative analysis methods to undergraduate medical students at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College.
Prior to joining the Centre, Alex worked in the United States and Europe as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and completed his Master's degree in health policy and economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Physiology from King's College London.
Academic reviews
NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reviewer of mixed-method evaluations, economic evaluation, HTA, policy evaluation
Editorial board - Journal of Hospital Total Quality Management
Teaching roles
Module 1 lead: NHS Digital Academy (hosted by Imperial College London)
An online programme for NHS informatics professionals. Lead curriculum design and content production.
Deputy academic director (with Professor Elias Mossialos): Advanced Hospital Quality Management in the Big Data Era
A program designed for China's leading hospital executive officers. This two week module provides training on health systems financing and care provision. We explain methods of 'big' data collection and analysis, and use case studies to demonstrate how evidence can be implemented for clinical and non-clinical quality improvement in hospital care delivery.
Module co-leader (with Professor Elias Mossialos): Masters in Health Policy, Imperial College London
Health Systems and Policy
Delivering lectures on understanding complex health systems, policy evaluation and statistics.
Financing Healthcare
Delivering lectures on cost analysis and pharmaceutical economics and policy.
Invited talks
December 2018
Academic seminar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Talk entitled: Health systems in the knowledge economy
December 2016
National Consultative Meeting for Finalization of 5-year IHR-GHSA Roadmap, Islamabad, Pakistan
Talk entitled: Health investment, planning and costing process
November 2016
Strategic partnership for country planning workshop for post Joint External Evaluation (JEE) activities, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Talk entitled: A rapid review of planning and costing tools for Joint External Evaluations & Progress against the International Health Regulation (2005)
September 2016
The 2016 Summit on China Hospital Development, Hangzhou, China
Talk entitled: Patient centred care integration in the big data era: models and methods for technological and sociological reform
June 2016
Royal Society of Medicine (London): President's Day 2016: Making surgery safer through teams, training and technology
Talk entitled: What is the cost of surgical error? An economist's perspective
December 2015
Health Economics Global Congress (London) - pharmaceutical industry
Talk entitled: The System’s Outlook: The Global Business in a State of Flux and How to Meet These Challenges with Effective Strategies in the Near to MediumTerm?
September 2015
NIHR Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality (CPSSQ) annual conference (London)
Talk entitled Economic Analysis in Patient Safety
November 2014
Monocle Radio, The Globalist (episode 793)
Series on big ideas shaping the world:healthcare innovation
https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-globalist/793/
Publications
Journals
Carter AW, Jayawardana S, Costa-Font J, et al., 2024, How to Use Quasi-Experimental Methods in Cardiovascular Research: A Review of Current Practice., Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, Vol:17
Carter AW, Mossialos E, Redhead J, et al., 2022, Clinical negligence cases in the English NHS: uncertainty in evidence as a driver of settlement costs and societal outcomes, Health Economics Policy and Law, Vol:17, ISSN:1744-1331, Pages:266-281
Lim HS, Shaw S, Carter AW, et al., 2022, A clinical and cost-effectiveness analysis of the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device for transplant-ineligible patients: A United Kingdom perspective., J Heart Lung Transplant, Vol:41, Pages:174-186
Neves AL, Freise L, Laranjo L, et al., 2020, Impact of providing patients access to electronic health records on quality and safety of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Bmj Quality and Safety, Vol:29, ISSN:2044-5415, Pages:1019-1032
Dilley J, Camara M, Omar I, et al., 2019, Evaluating the impact of image guidance in the surgical setting: A systematic review, Surgical Endoscopy, Vol:33, ISSN:0930-2794, Pages:2785-2793