Dr Liz Breen
Reader in Health Operations
| Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences) |
|---|---|
| l.breen@bradford.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +441274 233460 |
Biography
Dr Liz Breen is a Reader in Health Service Operations having held previous position of Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the University of Bradford Faculty of Management and Law for 13 years. Prior to this she worked in the University of Manchester Business School as a Lecturer in Operations Management and within the NHS.
Liz is also the Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone at the University of Bradford. The facility, which is currently used to conduct Phase 3 trials of the Novovax Covid-19 vaccine (2020/21), houses state-of-the-art health facilities, business incubation space, research and teaching facilities.
Her research is broadly focused on end-to-end healthcare supply chains with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical supply chain. This covers a multitude of areas including sustainability, medicines optimisation, digital innovation, patient safety, process analysis and risk management. Liz has more recently undertaken extensive analysis of the UK Covid-19 vaccine supply chain and has commented on this in widespread media coverage.
Liz is co-lead on the Process Evaluation stream of the ISCOMAT study (National Institute for Health Research programme) focusing on patient safety/medicines transitions and Deputy theme lead for the Safe Use of Medicines in the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre.
Liz is interested in supervising PhD students with complementary interests in these overarching themes and other sector supply chain studies. She is keen to develop the profile and relevance of Operations and Supply Chain Management in healthcare service supply chains within her research, teaching and business engagement.
Research
Sustainability in service supply chains; healthcare systems; medicines optimization; patient safety;green logistics; supply chain optimization.
| Date | Role | Title / Description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-MAR-16 - | Work package Co-Lead | ISCOMAT | ||
| 01-APR-18 - | Workstream Co-lead | Deciding to Deprescribe | ||
| 01-FEB-19 - 30-JUN-19 | PI | Preventing burnout amongst healthcare staff – A case analysis of Yorkshire Ambulance Service | ||
| 01-OCT-18 - 12-APR-19 | Supervisor | Preventing long term burnout by exploring the impact of supportive paramedic training | ||
| 01-NOV-17 - | CI Phase 4 of study | ActMed (ACcess To MEDicines) at end of life |
Teaching
Teaching highlights
My teaching strategy and delivery is applied, in that whilst grounded in classical theory/texts, always pulls from current research/industry experience and my own research. I find this approach particularly useful in engaging with business/executive cohorts who expect industrial expertise to support academic acumen. I support my teaching with the inclusion of industry professionals in my lectures. I have taught a range of class sizes, from 400 students to a 1-1 provision and am comfortable with any class size. I have extensive experience of DBA/PhD/MBA/Masters and UG theses and dissertations completions and am very keen to introduce all research activity from these into the teaching environment.
Teaching interests
I currently teach the following modules: Economics of Healthcare Management and Management of Global Pharmaceutical Supply and support other modules which require healthcare management, supply chain input. Previous teaching includes: Operations Management; Service Operations Management; Supply Chain Management (reverse logistics, risk management); Change Management and Research Methods.
Professional activities
- 01-JAN-02: Manchester Business School (UMIST) - PhD
- 01-JAN-98: Manchester Business School (UMIST) - MSc
- 01-JAN-96: University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland - Pg/Dip
- 01-JAN-95: University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland - BSc (Hons)
- University of Bradford School of Management - Senior Lecturer
- University of Bradford School of Management - Lecturer
- University of Manchester (UMIST) - Lecturer
- Supply Chain Development Manager - Supply Chain Development Manager
- Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), Fellow Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK)
- Institute of Operations Management, Fellow Institute of Operations Management
- Higher Education Academy, Fellow Higher Education Academy
- British Academy of Management, Member British Academy of Management
- 01-JAN-05: - Most Promising Pharmacologistics Project
- 01-JAN-19: - #NorthInnovationWomen list
- Irish
- Associate Editor (SC/OM): European Management Journal:
- Editorial Board Member: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal :
- Supply Chain Advisor: Journal of Medicines Optimisation:
Publications
| Peer Reviewed Journal | |
|---|---|
| Title | An exploratory study of reverse exchange systems used for medical devices in the UK National Health Service (NHS) (2019) |
| Authors | Xie, Y.; Breen, Liz; Cherrett, T.; Zheng, D.; Allen, C.J. |
| Journal | Supply Chain Management-An International Journal |
| Title | Gaps, traps, bridges and props: a mixed-methods study of resilience in the medicines management system for patients with heart failure at hospital discharge (2019) |
| Authors | Fylan B;Marques I;Ismail H;Breen L;Gardner P;Armitage G;Blenkinsopp A |
| Journal | BMJ Open |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023440 |
| Title | Boxed up and locked up, safe and tight! Making the case for unattended electronic locker bank logistics for an innovative solution to NHS hospital supplies (UK) (2015) |
| Authors | Bailey, G.; Cherrett, T.; Waterson, B.; Breen, Liz; Long, R. |
| Title | Waste not, want not. What are the drivers of sustainable medicines recycling in National Health Service hospital pharmacies (UK)? (2015) |
| Authors | Breen, Liz; Xie, Y. |
| Journal | International Journal of Procurement Management |
| Title | Who cares wins? A comparative analysis of household waste medicines and batteries reverse logistics systems (2014) |
| Authors | Xie, Y.; Breen, Liz |
| Title | Greening community pharmaceutical supply chain in UK: a cross boundary approach (2012) |
| Authors | Xie, Y.; Breen, Liz |
| Title | Suppliers, do you know your customers? (2006) |
| Authors | Schofield, R.A.; Breen, Liz |
| Title | Improving the pharmaceutical supply chain: assessing the reality of e-quality through e-commerce application in hospital pharmacy (2005) |
| Authors | Breen, Liz; Crawford, H. |
| Title | Driving Quality - Clinical Governance in the NHS (2002) |
| Authors | Breen (nee Ritchie), L |
| Journal | Managing Service Quality |
| Title | Self-assessment using the business excellence model: A study of practice and process (2000) |
| Authors | Breen (nee Ritchie), L and Dale, B |
| Journal | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Title | The Benefits of Reverse Logistics: The case of Manchester Royal Infirmary (2000) |
| Authors | Breen (nee Ritchie) L, Burnes B, Hey R and Whittle P |
| Journal | Supply Chain Management-An International Journal |
| Title | An analysis of self-assessment practices using the business excellence model (2000) |
| Authors | Breen (nee Ritchie), L and Dale, B |
| Journal | PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, PART A |
| Book Chapters | |
|---|---|
| Title | E-integrated healthcare supply chains: Tracking and monitoring medical devices in National Health Service (NHS) UK (2018) |
| Authors | Xie, Y and Breen, L. |
| Journal | In E-Business and Supply Chain Integration Strategies and Case Studies from Industry |
| Publisher | Kogan Page |
| Other Publications | |
|---|---|
| Other type | Magazine Article |
| Title | Opening Pandora’s Box could solve medicines shortages. The NHS at 70. (2018) |
| Authors | Breen L. and Vann Yaroson E |
| Publisher | Chartered Institute of Logistics Transport UK |
| Other type | Editorial |
| Title | Editorial (2016) |
| Authors | Breen, Liz; McIntosh, Bryan |
| Other type | Reviews |
| Title | New solution for old problem: How to reduce the volume of waste medicines (2010) |
| Authors | Breen L.;Xie Y.;Thiaray K. |
| Journal | Pharmaceutical Journal |
| Other type | Reviews |
| Title | Pharmaceutical supply chain - Update on the current NHS review (2005) |
| Authors | Miles R.;Breen L. |
| Journal | Hospital Pharmacist |
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Identifying reverse exchange practices: a comparative study of laundry logistics in public hospitals (Thailand) (2018) | Bandoophanit, T.; Breen, Liz |
| Identifying green logistics best practices: a case study of Thailand's public hospitals (2018) | Bandoophanit, T.; Breen, Liz; Barber, Kevin D. |
| An assessment of supply chain vulnerabilities to dynamic disruptions in the pharmaceutical supply chain (2018) | Yaroson, Emilia V.; Sharief, Karam; Shah, Awn; Breen, Liz |
| How do we avoid the ‘ever decreasing circles syndrome’ in service improvement? (2018) | Manzoor. A, Breen. L, Marques. I, Edwards. Z |
| Do we need to be Sustainable? An examination of purpose and intention behind Sustainability practice in Community Pharmacies in the National Health Service (UK) (2017) | Breen, Liz; Garvey, O.; Mosan, G.; Matthias, Olga; Sowter, Julie |