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  1. Bed occupancy forecast for decision-making during periods of high hospital pressure

    Article • International Journal of Medical Informatics, November 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  2. Capacity planning at the interface of health and social care: a simulation approach to time-varying resource needs

    Article • Journal of Simulation, June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  3. Modelling the duration of time between peak hospital admissions and peak bed occupancy for seasonal epidemics: application to influenza

    Article • Journal of Modelling in Management, June 2026, Emerald

    Dr Richard M Wood

  4. Medical patient boarding in the emergency department as a source of crowding and delay-related harm, impacting patient outcomes and the efficiency of urgent and emergency care

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, February 2026, BMJ

    Dr Richard M Wood

  5. An equilibrium solution to the elective waiting list problem

    Article • December 2025, openRxiv

    Dr Richard M Wood

  6. Projected population health, demographics, and associated healthcare resource requirements from 2025 to 2047: modelling study in England

    Article • December 2025, openRxiv

    Dr Richard M Wood

  7. The NHS waiting list in England must halve to reach waiting time targets

    Article • Future Healthcare Journal, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  8. Initialising occupancy for online simulation models with unknown service start times

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  9. A compartmental modelling methodology to support strategic decision making for managing the elective hospital waiting list; application in England’s NHS

    Article • Health Care Management Science, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  10. Delay-related harm: direct and indirect impacts of boarding medical patients in the Emergency Department on the urgent and emergency care pathway. A retrospective observational cohort study

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Richard M Wood

  11. Implementing big data analytics in practice – A response to “Factors impacting the adoption of big data in healthcare: A systematic literature review”

    Article • International Journal of Medical Informatics, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  12. Waiting list models must account for departures before treatment

    Article • The Lancet, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  13. Improving uptake of population health management through scalable analysis of linked electronic health data

    Article • Health Informatics Journal, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Richard M Wood

  14. The cost of keeping patients waiting: retrospective treatment-control study of additional healthcare utilisation for UK patients awaiting elective treatment

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  15. Improving COVID-19 vaccination centre operation through computer modelling and simulation

    Article • Health Systems, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  16. Can computer simulation support strategic service planning? Modelling a large integrated mental health system on recovery from COVID-19

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Systems, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  17. Near real-time prediction of urgent care hospital performance metrics using scalable random forest algorithm: A multi-site development

    Article • Healthcare Analytics, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  18. Development and practical use of a risk-sensitive population segmentation model for healthcare service planning: Application in England

    Article • International Journal of Healthcare Management, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  19. With much of England’s NHS under severe pressure, should health inequalities be a priority?

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Richard M Wood

  20. Improving Hospital Discharge Flow Through Scalable Use of Discrete Time Simulation and Scenario Analysis

    Article • March 2023, The Operational Research Society

    Dr Richard M Wood

  21. A systems approach can help improve patient flow in the NHS this winter and beyond

    Article • Future Healthcare Journal, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  22. A multi-granular stacked regression for forecasting long-term demand in Emergency Departments

    Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  23. The False Economy of Seeking to Eliminate Delayed Transfers of Care: Some Lessons from Queueing Theory

    Article • Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  24. Supporting COVID-19 elective recovery through scalable wait list modelling: Specialty-level application to all hospitals in England

    Article • Health Care Management Science, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  25. Exploring financially sustainable initiatives to address out-of-area placements in psychiatric ICUs: a computer simulation study

    Article • Journal of Mental Health, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  26. Improving uptake of simulation in healthcare: User-driven development of an open-source tool for modelling patient flow

    Article • Journal of Simulation, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Richard M Wood

  27. Use of linked patient data to assess the effect of Long-COVID on system-wide healthcare utilisation

    Article • Health Information Management Journal, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Richard M Wood

  28. Modelling the effect of first-wave COVID-19 on mental health services

    Article • Operations Research for Health Care, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  29. Projecting the effect of easing societal restrictions on non‐COVID‐19 emergency demand in the UK: Statistical inference using public mobility data

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Richard M Wood

  30. Operational research for the safe and effective design of COVID-19 mass vaccination centres

    Article • Vaccine, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  31. The impact of increased outpatient telehealth during COVID‐19: Retrospective analysis of patient survey and routine activity data from a major healthcare system in England

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr Richard M Wood

  32. The Value of Triage during Periods of Intense COVID-19 Demand: Simulation Modeling Study

    Article • Medical Decision Making, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Richard M Wood

  33. Population Health Management to identify and characterise ongoing health need for high-risk individuals shielded from COVID-19: a cross-sectional cohort study

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2020, BMJ

    Dr Richard M Wood

  34. Correction to ‘A dose and time response Markov model for the in-host dynamics of infection with intracellular bacteria following inhalation: with application to Francisella tularensis ’

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Richard M Wood

  35. A comparison of population segmentation methods

    Article • Operations Research for Health Care, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  36. Modelling capacity along a patient pathway with delays to transfer and discharge

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Richard Wood, Dr Richard M Wood

  37. Addressing probationary period within a competing risks survival model for retail mortgage loss given default

    Article • The Journal of Credit Risk, September 2017, Incisive Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  38. A structural model for estimating losses associated with the mis-selling of retail banking products

    Article • The Journal of Operational Risk, February 2017, Incisive Media

    Dr Richard M Wood

  39. A dose and time response Markov model for the in-host dynamics of infection with intracellular bacteria following inhalation: with application to Francisella tularensis

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, March 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Ian M Hall, Dr Richard M Wood

  40. Optimising resource management in neurorehabilitation

    Article • NeuroRehabilitation, January 2014, IOS Press

    Dr Richard M Wood

  41. Modelling activities at a neurological rehabilitation unit

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood

  42. Scheduling physiotherapy treatment in an inpatient setting

    Article • Operations Research for Health Care, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Richard M Wood