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Ruth McDonald is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Health Professions, with significant contributions to the subfields of General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Education, Economics and Econometrics, and Strategy and Management.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Public Procurement and Policy

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "The Problem of Success and Failure in Public-private Innovation Partnerships," 2021, Journal of Social Policy
  • "Impact of changing provider remuneration on NHS general dental practitioner services in Northern Ireland: a mixed-methods study," 2020, Health Services and Delivery Research
  • "Assembling the Healthopolis: Competitive city-regionalism and policy boosterism pushing Greater Manchester further, faster," 2020, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • "Does health and social care provision for the community dwelling older population help to reduce unplanned secondary care, support timely discharge and improve patient well-being? A mixed method meta-review of systematic reviews," 2020, F1000Research
  • "Spillover effects of financial incentives for providers onto non-targeted patients: daycase surgery in English hospitals," 2023, Health Economics Policy and Law

Ruth McDonald has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jonathan Hammond, Simon Bailey, Kath Checkland, Philip Britteon, and Søren Rud Kristensen.

Their publications have appeared in journals such as:

  • Health Services and Delivery Research
  • Journal of Social Policy
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • F1000Research
  • Health Economics Policy and Law

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications as well, including a study titled "A study of the changes in Ojibwa, Tlinget, and Hopi basketry as relating to economic, political, societal, and historical changes in the respective societies," published by Michigan State University Libraries in 2024.

Best Publications

  • What Patients Want From Primary Care Consultations: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Identify Patients’ Priorities

    Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi;Arne Risa Hole;Nicola Mead;Ruth McDonald

  • Reduced Mortality With Hospital Pay for Performance in England

    Matt Sutton;Silviya Nikolova;Ruth Boaden;Helen Lester

  • Impact of financial incentives on clinical autonomy and internal motivation in primary care: ethnographic study.

    Ruth McDonald;Stephen Harrison;Kath Checkland;Stephen M Campbell

  • Pay for Performance in Primary Care in England and California: Comparison of Unintended Consequences

    Ruth McDonald;Martin Roland

  • The experience of pay for performance in English family practice: a qualitative study.

    Stephen M. Campbell;Ruth McDonald;Helen Lester

  • What benefits will choice bring to patients? Literature review and assessment of implications

    Marianna Fotaki;Martin Roland;Alan Boyd;Ruth McDonald

  • Rules and guidelines in clinical practice: a qualitative study in operating theatres of doctors’ and nurses’ views

    R McDonald;J Waring;S Harrison;K Walshe

  • Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract.

    Kath Checkland;Stephen Harrison;Ruth McDonald;Suzanne Grant

  • Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in health care and public health

    Rosalind Raine;Ray Fitzpatrick;Helen Barratt;Gywn Bevan

  • Shifting care from hospitals to the community: a review of the evidence on quality and efficiency

    Bonnie Sibbald;Ruth McDonald;Martin Roland

  • Rules, safety and the narrativisation of identity: a hospital operating theatre case study

    Ruth McDonald;Justin Waring;Stephen Harrison

  • Long-Term Effect of Hospital Pay for Performance on Mortality in England

    Soren Rud Kristensen;Rachel Meacock;Alexander Turner;Ruth Boaden

  • Institutional complexity and individual responses : delineating the boundaries of partial autonomy

    Graham P. Martin;Graeme Currie;Simon Weaver;Rachael Finn

  • The Politics of Healthcare in Britain

    SR Harrison;Ruth Mcdonald;Er. McDonald

  • Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts: embedding clinically led change in routine practice.

    Graham P Martin;Simon Weaver;Graeme Currie;Rachael Finn

  • Professional status in a changing world: The case of medicines use reviews in English community pharmacy.

    Ruth McDonald;Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi;Caroline Sanders;Darren Ashcroft

  • Patient Choice and the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: Scoping Review

    M. Fotaki;A. Boyd;R. McDonald;L. Smith

  • What are the key attributes of primary care for patients? Building a conceptual 'map' of patient preferences.

    Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi;Peter Bower;Nichola Mead;Ruth McDonald

  • Paying for the wrong kind of performance? Financial incentives and behaviour changes in National Health Service dentistry 1992–2009

    Martin Tickle;Ruth McDonald;Jarrod Franklin;Vishal R. Aggarwal

  • Governing the ethical consumer: identity, choice and the primary care medical encounter

    Ruth McDonald;Nicola Mead;Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi;Peter Bower

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Matt Sutton
Matt Sutton University of Manchester
Ruth Boaden
Ruth Boaden University of Manchester
Birgit Völlm
Birgit Völlm University of Rostock
Justin Waring
Justin Waring University of Birmingham
Caroline Sanders
Caroline Sanders University of Manchester
Kieran Walshe
Kieran Walshe University of Manchester
Richard Morriss
Richard Morriss University of Nottingham
Pauline Allen
Pauline Allen University of London
Katherine S. Pollard
Katherine S. Pollard University of California, San Francisco

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