Professor Ian Philp CBE, MD, FRCP (Edin & Lond), FFPA (Hon)
Professor of Health Care for Older People
Address
Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing
Samuel Fox House
Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU
Tel: (+44) (0)114 2266732
Tel Secretary: (0)114 2715928
Fax: (+44) (0)114 2715915
Email: i.philp@sheffield.ac.uk
Email Secretary: l.goss@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Interests
Ian Philp has been the Marjorie Coote Professor of Health Care for Older People at the University of Sheffield and an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, since 1994.
He established the Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing which won for the University of Sheffield the Queen's Award for Higher Education in 2000 for research into improving the quality of life for older people.
His research interests are in improving the lives of older people through better assessment and response to their health care needs.
Professor Philp was the National Director "Tsar" for Older People in the Department of Health from 2000 to 2008, leading the development and implementation of National Service Framework for Older People.
His NHS duties include hospital care for frail older people. His team won UK Hospital Doctor of the Year Award (Older People's category). He is also a member of the Professsional Executive Committee of Sheffield NHS Primary Care Trust.
Professor Philp has been an Adviser to the World Health Organisation and to Health Departments in the UK, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada and has helped with the development of health care institutions in Poland and Russia.
He is a frequent media commentator on healthy ageing and the care of older people and was the co-presenter of the BBC1 series "How to Live Longer".
Activities and Distinctions
- Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health
- Visiting Lecturer of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh
- Given numerous invited and key-note lectures in the UK and internationally
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Representative Publications
Espallargues M, Pilp I, Seymour DG, Campbell SE, Primrose W, Arino S, Dunstan E, Lamura G, Lawson P, Mestheneos E, Politynska B, Raiha I: the ACMEplus Project Team. Measuring case-mix and outcome for older people in acute hospital care across Europe: the development and potential of the ACME plus instrument. QJM, February 2008;101:99-109
Parker C, Philp I (2004). Screening for cognitive impairment among older people in black and minority ethnic groups. Age and Ageing, 33, 447-452.
McKee K J, Philp I, Lamura G, Prouskas C, Oberg B, Krevers B, Spazzafumo L, Bien B, Parker C, Nolan M R, Szczerbinska K (2003). The COPE Index – a first stage assessment of negative impact, positive value and quality of support of caregiving in informal carers of older people. Ageing and Mental Health, 7(1), 39-52.
Philp I, Lowles R V, Armstrong G K, Whitehead, C (2002). Repeatability of standardised tests of functional impairment and well-being in older people in a rehabilitation setting. Disability and Rehabilitation, 24(5), 243-249.
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