Professor Iestyn Williams

Iestyn Williams

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Health Policy and Management

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 7063
Email
i.p.williams@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Social Policy and Society, HSMC
Park House
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT

Iestyn is a Professor of Health Policy and Management in the School of Social Policy and Society. He is involved in a range of research, teaching and knowledge transfer work and has a broad methodological experience and expertise. He specialises in social science approaches to Health Services Research, employing mixed methods study designs. He has specific expertise in: priority setting, decision making and decommissioning in health care; strategic planning and decision making; implementation studies, and; qualitative evidence synthesis and reporting.

Qualifications

His main qualifications are:

  • PhD Health Care Policy and Management, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (2009)
  • MPhil Cultural Studies and Sociology, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (2002)
  • BSocSc (1st) Media, Culture and Society, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (1995)

Biography

Iestyn's academic background is in Sociology which he studied at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Before joining HSMC, Iestyn worked in NHS management and prior to this spent five years in research and service development in the third sector. 

Current and recent projects 

  • A national study into decommissioning in health care (funded by the National Institute for Health Research)
  • A national study into publication bias in health services delivery research (funded by the National Institute for Health Research and led by Warwick University)
  • An investigation of capital spending in NHS organisations (funded by the Health Foundation)

Postgraduate supervision

Iestyn welcomes PhD proposals on the following themes:

  • Priority setting, decision making and decommissioning

  • Health care change and improvement

  • Social science methods in health services research

Research

Research Projects

  • A Multicentre Study to Investigate Feasibility of a Protocol-Driven Multidisciplinary Service Model to Tackle ‘Spurious Penicillin Allergy’ in Secondary Care (National Institute for Health Research HS&DR), CI, £800k (2020-2023)
  • Inter-CEPt: Intervening to eliminate the centre effect variation in home dialysis use. (National Institute for Health Research HS&DR), CI, £1,110k (2020-2023)
  • NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). West Midlands, Theme 1: long term conditions. CI, £9m (2019-2026)
  • Health policy and civil unrest – an analysis of the global archive of news reports (Universities of Illinois and Birmingham BRIDGE Seed Fund) PI, £10k (2019)
  • Publication and related bias in health services and delivery research (HSDR): Systematic review of literature, evaluation of empirical evidence and methodology and key informant interviews (2017-2019)
  • Decommissioning in health care: The views of patients, service users, carers and the public (2015-2017)
  • Community Hospitals Research Programme (2014-2017)
  • Decommissioning health care (2013-2016) NIHR HS&DR

Other activities

  • Member of the Council of Governors, University Hospitals Birmingham
  • Secretary, International Society for Priorities in Health
  • Associate Editor Journal of Health Organisation and Managemet
  • External Examiner City University London
  • External examiner Alliance Manchester Business School

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Thirumala Krishna, M, Jani, Y, Williams, I, Muijica-Mota, R, Bestwick, R, Siciliano, M, West, RM, Bhogal, R, Ng, BY, Kildonaviciute, K, Pollard, R, Jones, N, Dunsmure, L, McErlean, M, Powell, N, Hullur, C, Balaji, A, Sandoe, J, Warner, A, Daniels, R, Thomas, C, Misbah, SA & Savic, L 2025, '', Health and Social Care Delivery Research, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1-96.

Farrar, N, Conefrey, C, Bell, M, Blazeby, J, Burton, C, Donovan, JL, Gibson, A, Glynn, J, Jones, T, Morley, J, McNair, AGK, Owen-Smith, A, Rule, E, Thornton, G, Tucker, V, Williams, I, Hollingworth, W & Rooshenas, L 2025, '', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 25, 590.

Spurway, C, Jackson, L, Williams, I, Bohm, C, Ayinde, O, Burns, F, Gibbs, J, Josh, J, Munro, H, Solomon, D, Woode Owusu, M & Ross, JDC 2025, '', Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Hill, H, Fotheringham, J, Potts, J, Solis-Trapala, I, Lambie, M, Damery, S, Allen, K, Wailoo, A, Williams, I & Davies, SJ 2025, '', Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.

Kapiriri, L, Vélez, C-M, Aguilera, B, Essue, BM, Nouvet, E, Razavi, D, Williams, I, Danis, M, Goold, S, Abelson, J & Kiwanuka, S 2024, '', Health Policy, vol. 141, 105011.

Smith, CQ, Williams, I & Leggett, W 2024, '', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 342, 116553.

Krishna, MT, Bhogal, R, Ng, BY, Kildonaviciute, K, Jani, YH, Williams, I, Sandoe, JAT, Pollard, R, Jones, N, Dunsmure, L, Powell, N, Hullur, C, Balaji, A, Moriarty, C, Jackson, B, Warner, A, Daniels, R, West, R, Thomas, C, Misbah, SA & Savic, L 2024, '', Journal of Infection, vol. 88, no. 3, 106116.

Damery, S, Lambie, M, Williams, I, Coyle, D, Fotheringham, J, Solis-Trapala, I, Allen, K, Potts, J, Dikomitis, L & Davies, SJ 2024, '', Peritoneal Dialysis International, pp. 1-10.

Jani, Y, Williams, I, McErlean, M, Bhogal, R, Ng, BY, Kildonaviciute, K, Balaji, A, Daniels, R, Dunsmure, L, Hullur, C, Jones, N, Misbah, S, Pollard, R, Powell, N, Sandoe, JAT, Thomas, C, Warner, A, West, R, Savic, L & Thirumala Krishna, M 2024, '', BMJ open quality, vol. 13, no. 3, e002890.

Williams, I, Kapiriri, L, Vélez, C-M, Aguilera, B, Danis, M, Essue, B, Goold, S, Noorulhuda, M, Nouvet, E, Razavi, D & Sandman, L 2024, '', Health Policy, vol. 141, 104998.

Allen, K, Shaw, K, Spry, J, Dikomitis, L, Coyle, D, Damery, S, Fotheringham, J, Lambie, M, Davies, SJ & Williams, I 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 12, e085754. <>

Essue, BM, Kapiriri, L, Mohamud, H, Vélez, C-M, Nouvet, E, Aguilera, B, Williams, I & Kiwanuka, S 2024, '', Health Policy, vol. 142, 105010.

Letter

Williams, I, Daniel, J, Mansur, AH, Christopher, DJ & Krishna, MT 2024, '', Clinical & Experimental Allergy .

Review article

Spurway, C, Jackson, L, Williams, I, Bohm, C, Ayinde, O, Burns, F, Gibbs, J, Josh, J, Munro, H, Solomon, D, Woode Owusu, M & Ross, JDC 2025, '', Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Ledda, V, Adisa, A, Agyei, F, Caton, L, George, C, Ghaffar, A, Ghosh, D, Hachach-Haram, N, Haque, PD, Ingabire, JCA, Kudrna, L, Li, E, McClain, C, Nepogodiev, D, Ntirenganya, F, Shrime, MG, Williams, I & Bhangu, A 2024, '', BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. Suppl 4, e015066.

Expertise

  • Setting priorities in health care
  • involving citizens and the public in health and social care decisions
  • the challenges of removing or replacing health care services and organisations
  • the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  • Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
  • Health Care Commissioning