2025 · Journal article
Elective surgery recovery: a discrete-event simulation of five NHS trusts
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Research Fellow — Operations
Dr. Marcus Thornton
Marcus specialises in operations research applied to healthcare and post-pandemic supply resilience. He runs an annual NHS-partnered simulation study on elective recovery.
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- Methodology
- quantitative
- Current researchers
- 4
- Supervises
- PhD · DBA
- Availability
- Limited
Supervision style
How I supervise
"Technical. I expect rigour in your simulation design and data treatment. If you don't enjoy debugging a model, we're probably not a fit."
Expertise
What I work on
- Lean operations
- Healthcare logistics
- Simulation modelling
- Operations research
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Reading list
Updated quarterly
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01
Introduction to Operations Research
Hillier & Lieberman
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02
The Goal
Goldratt
"Dated but the ideas still land."
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03
Managing Operations
Slack & Brandon-Jones
Recent work
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