research
I transitioned from working in NHS management into academic research in 2020. For me, research has provided me with some much-needed thinking space to step back from the day-to-day running of health and care services and objectively assess how public policy is influenced, developed, and implemented. However, I have never lost touch with my management roots and use my experience and wide network of health and care colleagues to ground my research in the practical. My research ethos is “how can this actually help someone”.
I was awarded a doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester to undertake my PhD at the University of Manchester. My research focused on the reorganisation of health and care commissioning in the context of place-based partnerships and integrated care systems. This project was inspired by my own experiences in this policy area as a senior NHS manager working in the devolved Greater Manchester region.
Since concluding my fellowship I have continued research in this area, working on a UK Government-commissioned review of the Health and Care Act 2022 and subsequent health and care reforms.
You can read and watch my research outputs below.
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Sanderson M, Hammond J, Surgey M, Aktas-Vincent P, Wattal V, Sutton M, Checkland K, Allen P, Macinnes J, Peckham S, Petsoulas C, Warwick-Giles L (2025). Post-implementation review of the Health and Care Act 2022: Research briefing.
Sanderson M, Hammond J, Surgey M, Aktas-Vincent P, Wattal V, Sutton M, Checkland K, Allen P, Macinnes J, Peckham S, Petsoulas C, Warwick-Giles L (2025). Post-implementation review of the Health and Care Act 2022 Phase 1: Interim Report .
Gillibrand S, Watkinson R, Surgey M, Issa B, Sanders C (2024). “We might not have been in hospital, but we were frontline workers in the community”: unmet need and local community-based responses for marginalised groups in Greater Manchester during the Covid-19 pandemic. BMC Health Services Research 24 pp 621-634.
Anselmi L & Surgey M (2023). Workshop on ICB resource allocation: national and local developments.
Surgey M (2022). With great power: taking responsibility for integrated care. Public Sector Focus. Issue 42 pp. 22-23.
Surgey M (2022). With great power: taking responsibility for integrated care. Policy@Manchester blog 19th July 2022.
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Allen P, Petsoulas C, Sanderson M, Checkland K, Surgey M, Peckham S (2022). Evidence from PRUComm on accountability. Submitted to the Department of Health and Social Care Hewitt review into ICS autonomy
Petsoulas C, Allen P, Sanderson M, Surgey M, Osipovic D (2022). Evidence submitted to the Health and Care Select Committee inquiry into ICS autonomy and accountability
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Health Policy and Politics Network annual conference (May 2024): “It’s not just about contracts”: Commissioners as relationship managers and mediators in place-based health and care (presentation)
Department of Health and Social Care ICS Week seminar (Oct 2023): “Accountability and the role of place”
Health Services Research UK annual conference (Jul 2023): “Accountability, oversight and assurance in place-based partnerships” (pre-recorded presentation)
Health Policy and Politics Network annual conference (Mar 2023): “ICS, ICB, ICP? The challenges in navigating organisational forms in the new NHS” (presentation)
Divisional postgraduate research showcase (Jan 2023): “Commissioning and place-based partnerships: where are we now, and what next?” (presentation)
British Sociological Association Medical Sociology annual conference (Sept 2022): “Perceptions of place in health and social care” (presentation)
Health Services Research UK annual conference (Jul 2022): “Commissioning and place-based partnerships: where are we now, and what next?” (presentation)
ARC-GM capacity building showcase (Oct 2021): “The role of commissioners in place-based health and care” (poster presentation)
Health Services Research UK annual conference (Jul 2021): “Defining place in health and care policy” (presentation)
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Member of an advisory panel scoping a potential future study on the experience of gynaecological pain in university students (PI: Dr Katie Paddock-Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University)