Professor Naomi Fulop
Prior to joining King’s College London in 2005, Naomi spent 11 years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where most recently she was senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Policy and Director of the National Co-ordinating Centre for the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D programme. For six years she worked in the English National Health Service (NHS) as a public health specialist, involved in implementing the reforms of the early 1990s.
Prof Fulop’s background includes training in social sciences at the Universities of Bristol and London, and in public health at Harvard. She was appointed to a Chair in Health and Health Policy at King’s in 2005.
Prof Fulop is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR's) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research and also serves as a non-executive director on the board of a large acute hospital trust in London.
Prof Fulop’s research interests are in the area of the implementation and organisational impact of key NHS policy initiatives. Previous studies have included an evaluation of hospital at home schemes, a study of the impact of needs assessments in health authority decision-making, and the use of acute psychiatric beds across London and the South East. In 1998, she completed an evaluation of the national public health strategy (The Health Of The Nation) for the Department of Health.
Recent and current topics include the process and impact of vertical and horizontal integration of health care providers and different ways of configuring acute hospital services, the concept of organisational ‘failure’ and ‘turnaround’ in health care, and organisational issues in the implementation of IT systems. She also has a keen interest in the relationship between research and policy/practice.
Publications:
Hendy J, Fulop N, Reeves, B, Hutchings A, Collin S. Implementing the NHS information technology programme: qualitative study of progress in acute trusts. Brit Med J 2007; 334; 1360- ; originally published online 17 May 2007; doi: 10.1136/bmj.39185.598461.551.
Fulop N, Protopsaltis G, King A, Allen P, Hutchings A, Normand C. Changing organisations: a study of the context and processes of mergers of health care providers in England. Social Science and Medicine 2005;60(1):119-130. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.017
Lomas J, Fulop N, Gagnon D, Allen P. On being a good listener: setting priorities for applied health services research. Milbank Quarterly 2003; 81(3): 363-88.
http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8103feat.html
Fulop N, Protopsaltis G, Hutchings A, King A, Allen P, Normand C, Walters R. The process and impact of NHS trust mergers: a multi-centre organisational study and management cost analysis. Brit Med J 2002; 325:246-49.
doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7358.246
Tyrer P, Suryanarayan G, Rao B, Cicchetti D, Fulop N et al. The bed requirement inventory: a simple measure to estimate the need for a psychiatric bed. Int J Social Psychiatry 2006; vol 52(3): 283-293.
Hendy J, Reeves B, Fulop N et al. 2005. ‘The National Programme for Information Technology: challenges to implementation.’ British Medical Journal, 3331-3336.
Rutter, D, Manley, C, Weaver, Crawford, MJ, Fulop, N. 2004. ‘Patients or partners? Case studies of user involvement in planning and delivery of adult services in two recently-formed London Mental Health Trusts’. Social Science and Medicine 58: 1973-1984.
Fulop N, Allen P, Clarke A, Black N. 2003. ‘From health technology assessment to research on the organisation and delivery of health services: addressing the balance’. Health Policy 63(2): 155-165.
Hutchings A, Allen P, Fulop N, King A, Protopsaltis G, Normand C, Walters R. 2003. ‘The process and impact of trust mergers in the National Health Service: a financial perspective’. Public Money and Management, 103-112.
Crawford, MJ, Aldridge, T, Bhui, K, Rutter, D, Manley, C, Weaver, T, Tyrer, P, Fulop, N. 2003. ‘User involvement in the planning and delivery of mental health services: A cross-sectional survey of service users and providers’. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 107(6): 410-414(5).
