Jenny Harlock

Job Title

Associate Professor

Department

WMS - Health Sciences

Phone

02476 574387

Jenny.Harlock@warwick.ac.uk

Web Link

I have conducted extensive research on health and care in the community. My early research focused on the role of the voluntary sector in adult social care, and care and support for older people. Since then I have undertaken research on health and social care integration, service reconfiguration and improvement, and care homes. My most recent research is the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded evaluation of ReSPECT - the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment - in the community. Resources produced from the study to support emergency care treatment planning conversations with people with learning disabilities were cited as an example of good practice in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report on 'End of Life Care: Improving 'Do Not Resuscitate' conversations for everyone' (published March 2024). I am a social and policy scientist by training and an expert in qualitative and mixed methods. I am passionate about public and practitioner involvement and engagement in research and recently led a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NIHR funded project to improve voluntary and community sector engagement in health and social care research. I am the Course Director for Warwick Medical School's MRes Health and Care programme, and Lead our NIHR INSIGHT programme: 'Inspiring Students into Research'. I also lead the Social Care Research Network at the University of Warwick.

Research Interests

Health and care in the community; health and social care integration; care and support for older people; care homes; public involvement and community engagement, qualitative and mixed methods.

Biography

Jenny joined Warwick Medical School in October 2018. Jenny was previously Health Services Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford (2017-2018) and Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham for the Health Services Management Centre and Third Sector Research Centre (2012-2017). Jenny completed her ESRC funded PhD in Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath in 2012 which included an ESRC research internship at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). She was also Programme Manager for the National Care Forum (NCF) and Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) for the DHSC Voluntary Sector Partnerships Programme from 2009 to 2012, to improve policymaker engagement with the third sector.

Bradbury-Jones, C., Damery , S., Fruin , K., Gunby , C., Harlock, Jenny, Hebberts, L., Isham , L., Jones , A -M., Maxted , F., Mighty , A., Parmar, P., Patterson , L., Schaub, J., Scott , F., Smailes , H., Smith , D., Taylor, J., 2024. Exploring voluntary sector specialist services for victim-survivors of sexual violence in England : the PROSPER co-production study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Underwood, Martin, Noufaily, Angela, Blanchard, Hazel, Dale, Jeremy, Harlock, Jenny, Gill, Paramjit, Griffiths, Frances, Spencer, Rachel, Slowther, Anne-Marie, 2024. General practitioners? views on emergency care treatment plans; an on-line survey. BJGP Open
Onuegbu, Chinwe, Harlock, Jenny, Griffiths, Frances, 2023. Use, characteristics and influence of lay consultation networks on treatment-seeking decisions in slums of Nigeria : a cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open, 13 (5)
Al-Khudairy, Lena, Ayorinde, Abimbola, Ghosh, Iman, Grove, Amy, Harlock, Jenny, Meehan, Edward, Briggs, Adam, Court, Rachel, Clarke, Aileen, 2022. Evidence and methods required to evaluate the impact for patients who use social prescribing : a rapid systematic review and qualitative interviews. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 10 (29), pp. 1-88
'Onuegbu, Chinwe, 'Larweh, Maxwell, 'Harlock, Jenny, 'Griffiths, Frances, 2021. 'Systematic review of lay consultation in symptoms and illness experiences in informal urban settlements of low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Open, 11 (12)
'Williams, Iestyn, 'Harlock, Jenny, 'Robert, Glenn, 'Kimberly, John, 'Mannion, Russell, 2021. 'Is the end in sight? A study of how and why services are decommissioned in the English National Health Service. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43 (2), pp. 441-458
Crocker, Helen, Kelly, Laura, Harlock, Jenny, Fitzpatrick, Ray, Peters, Michele, 2020. Measuring the benefits of the integration of health and social care: qualitative interviews with professional stakeholders and patient representatives. BMC Health Services Research, 20
Harlock, Jenny, Caiels, James, Marczak, Joanna, Peters, Michele, Fitzpatrick, Raymond, Wistow, Gerald, Forder, Julien, Jones, Karen, 2020. Challenges in integrating health and social care : the Better Care Fund in England. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 25 (2), pp. 86-93
Kelly, Laura, Harlock, Jenny, Peters, Michele, Fitzpatrick, Ray, Crocker, Helen, 2020. Measures for the integration of health and social care services for long-term health conditions: a systematic review of reviews. BMC Health Services Research, 20
Combes, Gill, Damery, Sarah, Gunby, Clare, Harlock, Jenny, Isham, Louise, Jones, Alice, Maxted, Fay, Parmar, Priti, Schaub, Jason, Smith, Deb, Taylor, Julie, Bradbury-Jones, Caroline, 2019. Supporting survivors of sexual violence : protocol for a mixed-methods, co-research study of the role, funding and commissioning of specialist services provided by the voluntary sector in England. BMJ Open, 9 (12)
Harlock, Jenny, Williams, Iestyn, Robert, Glenn, Hall, Kelly, Mannion, Russell, Brearley, Sally, 2018. Doing more with less in health care : findings from a multi-method study of decommissioning in the English National Health Service. Journal of Social Policy, 47 (3), pp. 543-564
Harlock, Jenny, Williams, Iestyn, Robert, Glenn, Hall, Kelly, Mannion, Russell, Brearley, Sally, 2018. Doing more with less in health care : findings from a multi-method study of decommissioning in the English National Health Service. Journal of Social Policy, 47 (03), pp. 543-564
Williams, Iestyn, Harlock, Jenny, Robert, Glenn, Mannion, Russell, Brearley, Sally, Hall, Kelly, 2017. Decommissioning health care : identifying best practice through primary and secondary research ? a prospective mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5 (22), pp. 1-194
Williams, Iestyn, Harlock, Jenny, Robert, Glenn, Mannion, Russell, Brearley, Sally, Hall, Kelly, 2017. Decommissioning health care : identifying best practice through primary and secondary research ? a prospective mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5 (22), pp. 1-194
Newbigging, Karen, Mohan, John, Rees, James, Harlock, Jenny, Davis, Alex, 2017. Contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care in England : protocol for a multimethod study. BMJ Open, 7 (11)
Newbigging, Karen, Mohan, John, Rees, James, Harlock, Jenny, Davis, Alex, 2017. Contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care in England : protocol for a multimethod study. BMJ Open, 7 (11)
Robert, Glenn, Harlock, Jenny, Williams, Iestyn, 2014. Disentangling rhetoric and reality : an international Delphi study of factors and processes that facilitate the successful implementation of decisions to decommission healthcare services. Implementation Science, 9 (1)

Harlock, J., 2019. Understanding the state?third sector relationship in public services delivery. Carmel, E. (ed.), Governance Analysis, Critical Enquiry at the Intersection of Politics, Policy and Society, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Harlock, Jenny, Miller, Robin, 2017. From development to delivery : personalisation and the third sector. In Rees, James; Mullins, David (eds.), The Third Sector Delivering Public Services: Developments, Innovations and Challenges, Bristol, Policy Press Scholarship, pp. 189-210

Couchman, Emilie, Pocock, Lucy, Bowers, Ben, Harlock, Jenny, Barclay, Stephen, Richards, Suzanne, Mitchell, Sarah, 2024. Reforming primary palliative care : a call to arms. British Journal of General Practice, Royal College of General Practitioners, pp. 4-6
Harlock, Jenny, 2018. A system-level evaluation of the Better Care Fund : final report. QORU

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
NIHR via UoB: Supporting survivors of sexual violence: a mixed methods, co-research study of the role, funding and commissioning of specialist services provided by the voluntary sector in England	National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH)	01 Nov 2019	31 Jul 2022
Social Prescribing short term project commissioned via NIHR NETSCC	National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH)	01 Mar 2020	31 Aug 2020