Matt Sutton is Chair in Health Economics at the University of Manchester. He is an internationally renowned health economist at the forefront of providing real-time, economic evidence to inform critical health policy choices. He has demonstrated socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities are pervasive even in a national universal coverage system like the NHS. He has improved fairness in the health sector across the United Kingdom by leading multiple reviews of the formulae used to direct additional resources to the areas of highest need.
He has produced evidence to challenge the presumption that the “weekend effect” in hospital mortality was caused by inadequate staffing, generated real-time findings on the effectiveness of the COVID vaccination programme, and demonstrated the effectiveness of the national diabetes prevention programme.