Professor Peter McMeekin

I am a health economist who works primarily in economic evaluation of service provision.  I have worked extensively in acute stroke evaluating care pathways and treatments.

I lead the North East and North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration's Linked Data and Digital Health sub-theme and am interested in the uses of linked data in evaluation as well as the role of digital technologies in improving health.  These interests link back to my career prior to health economics where I work as an economist developing software for risk management in international capital markets for ten years.

I am also particularly interested in transformation and change in healthcare provision:   

• The processes through which innovation occurs and what facilitates these
• The ecosystems that enable transformation and technical change.
• How an innovative healthcare ecosystem can deliver wider benefits to regional economies

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• A Digital Cueing Intervention for Parkinsonian Gait: Laboratory-Based Clinical Validation and Acute Gait Responses, Wall, C., Hetherington, V., Vitório, R., McMeekin, P., Walker, R., Moore, J., Morris, R., Celik, Y., Godfrey, A. 11 Jul 2026, In: Journal of Medical Systems
• A machine learning study of the effect of thrombolysis on outcome at discharge in the UK stroke registry: how does benefit compare with clinical trials?, Pearn, K., Allen, M., Laws, A., McMeekin, P., Everson, R., Kelson, M., Scott, J., Kashouris, E., Delgado, J., Farmer, L., Asare, L., Bhalla, A., James, M. Jul 2026, In: European Stroke Journal
• Parkinson’s disease gait rehabilitation at scale: Insights on personalised smartphone-based music cueing, Wall, C., Sacre, A., McMeekin, P., Walker, R., Hetherington, V., Celik, Y., Vitório, R., Morris, R., Godfrey, A. 5 Jan 2026, In: PLoS One
• Retraining gait in Parkinson’s Disease via a personalised app: A study protocol, Wall, C., McMeekin, P., Hetherington, V., Morris, R., Vitório, R., Walker, R., Godfrey, A. 15 Apr 2026, In: PLoS One
• Specialist PrE-hospital rEDirection for ischaemic stroke thrombectomY (SPEEDY): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial with included health economic and process evaluations, Shaw, L., Allen, M., Day, J., Ford, G., James, M., McClelland, G., McMeekin, P., Mossop, H., Pope, C., Simmonds, R., White, P., Wilson, N., Price, C. 13 Jan 2026, In: BMJ Open
• A lifetime economic model of mortality and secondary care use for patients discharged from hospital following acute stroke, McMeekin, P., McCarthy, S., McCarthy, A., Porteous, J., Allen, M., Laws, A., White, P., James, M., Ford, G., Shaw, L., Price, C. 1 Jan 2025, In: International Journal of Stroke
• A scalable and personal approach to gait rehabilitation beyond the clinic, Wall, C., McMeekin, P., Hetherington, V., Morris, R., Vitório, R., Walker, R., Godfrey, A. 1 Aug 2025, In: Expert Systems with Applications
• Co-design of a Mobile Stroke Unit pathway highlights uncertainties and trade-offs for viable system-wide implementation in the English and Welsh NHS, Moseley, L., McMeekin, P., Allen, M., Ford, G., James, M., Laws, A., McCarthy, S., McClelland, G., Park, L., Pearn, K., Phillips, D., Price, C., Shaw, L., White, P., Wilson, D., Scott, J. 1 Dec 2025, In: BMC Emergency Medicine
• Modelling the potential clinical benefit of mobile stroke units in England, Laws, A., Allen, M., Scott, J., Moseley, L., Pearn, K., Ford, G., Price, C., White, P., McClelland, G., Shaw, L., Phillips, D., Wilson, D., McMeekin, P., James, M. 1 Jul 2025, In: BMC Emergency Medicine

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• Developing an NIHR Health and Social care Delivery Research (HSDR) national evaluation team: InterDisciplinary Evaluation of complex innovations in heAlth and Social care (IDEAS) Centre, Bate, A. (Principal Investigator), McMeekin, P. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/02/25 - 31/01/30, £3,028,752.00
• Determining the outcomes for autistic people in IAPT services: an explortive study, Greaves, J. (Principal Investigator), McMeekin, P. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/01/22 - 31/03/23, £10,442.00

• Sadie Diamond-Fox Advancing the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP): An exploration of the impact and long-term sustainability of the ACCP role Start Date: 28/04/2021
• Ramakrishnan Radhakrishnan EMPLOYMENT JOURNEYS OF PEOPLE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY CARE SECTOR Start Date: 01/10/2023

• Economics PhD December 01 2010
• Economics MSc October 01 2005
• Computing Science MSc October 01 1992
• Economics BA (Hons) October 01 1990
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2017