Professor Angela Bate

Angela's research interests are around the use of health economics in public health evaluation and commissioning. Angela has published widely in this area as well as leading and contributing to a number of national funded research council, Department of Health, and NIHR research grants. Angela’s recent funding successes represent innovative developments in health economic methodological research in ‘realist economic evaluation’, working in collaboration with realist methodologists to conduct initial research to study the feasibility of developing realist economic evaluation methods within a range of applied complex evaluations (including Parkinson’s UK, National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA), Foundation of Light, and Marie Curie). This research represents a growing area of methodological development and expertise in both health economics and realist evaluation, appeals to policy makers, and is gaining traction with research funders. Furthermore, Angela’s research in the area of public health evaluation seeks to integrate and study the application of boarder social measures of benefits and outcomes such as Social Return on Investments (SROI) and Social Network Analysis.  Currently funded research:

Rapid Response Services in End of Life Care: What Works for Whom and in Which Circumstances? (Marie Curie. PI: Amanda Clarke and Joanne Atkinson, Northumbria University)

SAFEguarding children in Substance exPosed fAmilies by supporting the non-using CaregivEr: Safe Space. (MRC PHIND. PI: Ruth McGovern, Newcastle University)

A rapid realist and economic evaluation of care in leg ulceration. (The Burdett Trust. PI: Fania Pagnamenta, Northumbria University)

Improving engagement and health and care outcomes for adults with co-existing mental health and substance misuse conditions. (NIHR HTA. PI: Elizabeth Hughes, University of Leeds).

Exploring and understanding the scope and value to the Parkinson’s nurse in the UK – the USP project. (Parkinson’s UK. PI: Annette Hand, Northumbria University).

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• Care models for coexisting serious mental health and alcohol/drug conditions: the RECO realist evidence synthesis and case study evaluation, Hughes, E., Harris, J., Ainscough, T., Bate, A., Copello, A., Dalkin, S., Gilchrist, G., Griffith, E., Jones, L., Maden, M., Mitcheson, L., Sumnall, H., Walker, C. 1 Oct 2024, In: Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)
• Exploring caregiver perspectives in the context of parental substance use: A qualitative study, Barrett, S., Smart, D., Bate, A., Beresford, L., McEvoy-Carr, C., Thompson, H., Gilvarry, E., Araujo-Soares, V., Kaner, E., McGovern, R. 1 Aug 2024, In: Child protection and practice
• Factors that influence paramedic decision-making about resuscitation for treatment of out of hospital cardiac arrest: Results of a discrete choice experiment in National Health Service ambulance trusts in England and Wales, Charlton, K., Bate, A. 1 Mar 2024, In: Resuscitation Plus
• ‘For Want of a Nail’: developing a transparent approach to retroduction and early initial programme theory development in a realist evaluation of community end of life care services, McEwan, K., Girling, M., Bate, A., Atkinson, J., Clarke, A., Dalkin, S. 3 Jul 2024, In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology
• Providing ‘professionalism with compassion’; how the time for caring communication can improve experiences at the end-of-life at home, findings from a realist evaluation, McEwan, K., Atkinson, J., Clarke, A., Bate, A., Jeffery, C., Dalkin, S. 2 Dec 2024, In: BMC Palliative Care
• Achieving Integrated Treatment: A realist synthesis of service models and systems for co-existing serious mental health and substance use conditions, Harris, J., Dalkin, S., Jones, L., Ainscough, T., Maden, M., Bate, A., Copello, A., Gilchrist, G., Griffith, E., Mitcheson, L., Sumnall, H., Hughes, E. 1 Aug 2023, In: The Lancet Psychiatry
• Longitudinal realist evaluation of the dementia PersonAlised care team (D-PACT) intervention: protocol, Wheat, H., Weston, L., Oh, T., Morgan-Trimmer, S., Ingram, W., Griffiths, S., Sheaff, R., Clarkson, P., Medina-Lara, A., Musicha, C., Spicer, S., Ukoumunne, O., Allgar, V., Creanor, S., Clark, M., Quinn, C., Gude, A., McCabe, R., Batool, S., Smith, L., Richards, D., Shafi, H., Warwick, B., Lasrado, R., Hussain, B., Jones, H., Dalkin, S., Bate, A., Sherriff, I., Robinson, L., Byng, R. 19 Sep 2023, In: BJGP Open
• North of Tyne Combined Authority Child Poverty Prevention Pilot Evaluation: How does the North of Tyne Combined Authority Child Poverty Prevention Programme work, for whom and in what circumstances?, Steer, M., Bate, A. 2023
• A Qualitative Exploration of Stakeholder Involvement in Decision-Making for Alcohol Treatment and Prevention Services, Alderson, H., Kaner, E., O’Donnell, A., Bate, A. 14 Feb 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Attracting, recruiting and retaining nurses and care workers working in care homes: the need for a nuanced understanding informed by evidence and theory, Devi, R., Goodman, C., Dalkin, S., Bate, A., Wright, J., Jones, L., Spilsbury, K. 1 Jan 2021, In: Age and Ageing

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• Developing a poverty informed learning health and social care system to prevent mental health projblems in disadvantaged children and parents, Bate, A. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/03/23 - 28/02/28, £28,655.00

• Andrew Bailey Improving lives through the power of football: A realist evaluation of the Foundation of Light’s community and education programmes for children and young people Start Date: 06/05/2020 End Date: 02/09/2021
• Karl Charlton paRamEdic decision making during adult out of hospital cardiAC arresT (The REACT Study) Start Date: 26/06/2024
• Maureen Munguti Identifying, measuring and valuing the impacts of interventions delivered by football foundations: Applying and refining Sport Value Bank outcomes for use within a social return on investment framework for evaluation Start Date: 01/10/2023

Health PhD September 30 2008