Dr Derek King

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

0207 955 7863

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Research Interests

Dr King's areas of expertise are mental health policy and economics, the demand and financing of long term care and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has previously worked in the areas of private medical insurance, priority setting in health care, pharmaceutical policy and development of quality of life instruments.

Derek has recently completed work looking at the intensity of unpaid care provision and its impact on employment with Dr Linda Pickard. He is currently involved in a number of cost and cost-effectiveness studies of health and social care interventions.

Derek's Google Scholar profile can be accessed here.

Derek King's Publications

Reports

Report

Promoting Well-Being in the Workplace (2011)

McDaid D, King D, Park A, Parsonage M

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Projections of Demand for and Costs of Social Care for Older People in England, 2010 to 2030, under Current and Alternative Funding Systems: Report to the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (2011)

Wittenberg R, Hu B, Hancock R, Morciano M, Comas-Herrera A, Malley J, King D

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Paying for Long-Term Care: Potential Reforms to Funding Long-Term Care, memorandum by the MAP2030 Research Group (SC 55) (2010)

Hancock R, Malley J, King D, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Morciano M

Stationery Office, London

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Care Home Fees and Reform of the Funding System for Long-Term Care (2010)

Hancock R, Morciano M, Malley J, King D, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A

The Stationery Office

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Experiences of Implementing Personal Health Budgets: Second Interim Report (2010)

Jones K, Welch E, Forder J, Windle K, Davidson J, Dolan P, Glendinning C, Irvine A, King D

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2747/2, University of Kent and London School of Economics and Political Science

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Calibrating disability measures across British national surveys (2009)

Jagger C, Matthews R, King D, Morciano M, Grundy E, Comas-Herrera A, Stuchbury R, Hancock, R

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Future Demand for Social Care, 2005 to 2041: Projections of Demand for Social Care for Older People in England (2008)

Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Malley J, King D, Comas-Herrera A, Darton R

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Future Demand for Social Care, 2005 to 2041: Projections of Demand for Social Care and Disability Benefits for Younger Adults in England (2008)

Wittenberg R, Malley J, Comas-Herrera A, Fernández J-L, King D, Snell T, Pickard L

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Paying for Long-Term Care for Older People in the UK: Modelling the Costs and Distibutional Effects of a Range of Options (2007)

Hancock R, Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Juarez-Garcia A, King D, Malley J

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Paying for long-term care for older people in the UK: modelling the cost and incidence of a range of options, report to the Nuffield Foundation (2006)

Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, King D

Nuffield Foundation

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Projections of demand for long-term care for older people in Wales to 2030, by local authority (2005)

Comas-Herrera A, Casado D, Wittenberg R, King D, Pickard L

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Long-term Care Expenditure for Older People, Projections to 2022 for Great Britain (2005)

Malley J, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Pickard L, King D

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Project Outlines

Project Outline

Lifetime economic consequences of mental health problems in childhood and adolescence [project outline] (2007)

King D, Knapp M

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Research Summaries

Research Summary

The Impact of Postponement of Reforms to Long-term Care Financing in England (2016)

Hancock R, King D, Popat S, the CASPER team

CASPER Project

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Research Summary

Patterns of, and factors associated with, atypical and typical antipsychotic prescribing by general practitioners in the UK during the 1990s. PSSRU Research Summary 43. (2007)

King D, Knapp M

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Paying for Long-Term Care for Older People in the UK: Modelling the costs and distributional effects of a range of options. PSSRU Research Summary 40 (2006)

Hancock R, Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Juarez-Garcia A, King D, Malley J

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Research Summary

Thirty-Five Years On: Future Demand for Long-Term Care in England. PSSRU Research Summary 35 (2006)

Comas-Herrera A, King D, Malley J, Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Darton R

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DP or working papers

DP or working paper

Unmet social care needs in England: a feasibility study for evaluating support models for older people with low and moderate needs (2018)

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DP or working paper

The Economic Case for a Befriending and Practical At-Home Support Scheme for Older People in Shropshire, England (2014)

Bauer A, Knapp M, King D, Wistow G, Perkins M, Iemmi V

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2881, London School of Economics

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Projections of demand for social care and disability benefits for younger adults in England: report of research conducted for the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (2011)

Snell T, Wittenberg R, Fernandez J, Malley J, Comas Herrera A, King D

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2880/3, London School of Economics

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