Associate Professor
Reece Hinchcliff

Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
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Biography
Reece Hinchcliff is an Associate Professor in Health Services Research and Deputy Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator in Health Management within the School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He also maintains honorary and adjunct appointments at the University of Technology Sydney, UNSW Australia and Macquarie University. Since completing his PhD at The George Institute for Global Health (formally based at the University of Sydney), Associate Professor Hinchcliff's research and teaching has examined how both regulatory policies and quality improvement programs can be applied in health services to improve organisational and care outcomes. He has a particular reputation for research into the design and impacts of accreditation programs in different national and health service contexts. Associate Professor Hinchcliff has been awarded more than $2 million in research funding, fellowships and scholarships. He has authored 44 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has a Google Scholar H-index of 18 and i-10 index of 29.Contact
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Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor, Health Services Research
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Keywords
Quality and safety, Patient safety, Quality improvement, Health systems, Health services research, Accreditation, Regulation, Indonesia, Clinical variation, Knowledge translation
Discipline
Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD(Medicine) (University of Sydney)
- BA(Hons1)(Social Anthropology) (University of Sydney)
Professional memberships and associations
Editorial Board Member, BMC Health Services Research
Teaching
Course coordination
- PU84/PQ84 Master of Health Management
- PU63/PQ63 Graduate Diploma in Health Management
- PQ31 Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management
- HL38 Graduate Certificate in Health Science
Unit coordination
- PUN/Q/Z640: Health Systems
- PUN/Q210: Contemporary Health Management
Selected publications
- Alruthea S, Bowman P, Tariq A, Hinchcliff R, (2022) Interventions to Enhance Medication Safety in Residential Aged Care Settings: An Umbrella Review, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 88 (4), pp. 1630-1643.
- Hinchcliff R, Debono D, Carter D, Glennie M, Robertson H, Travaglia J, (2022) Options to enhance the veracity of Australian health service accreditation assessments, Health Information Management Journal, 51 (2), pp. 59-62.
- Khan S, Yousefinezhadi T, Hinchcliff R, (2022) The impact of hospital accreditation in selected Middle East countries: a scoping review, Journal of Health Organization and Management, 36 (1), pp. 51-68.
- Hinchcliff R, (2021) Advancing the accreditation economy: a critical reflection, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33 (4).
- Alabdaly A, Debono D, Hinchcliff R, Hor S, (2021) Relationship between patient safety culture and patient experience in hospital settings: A scoping review protocol, BMJ Open, 11 (5).
- Handayani S, Wilson D, Utami M, Manglapy Y, Suharyo S, Hinchcliff R, (2021) Risk Factors of Drop-Out among Tuberculosis Patients in Semarang: A Case-Control Study, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 24 (1).
- Yousefinezhadi T, Mosadeghrad A, Hinchcliff R, Akbari-Sari A, (2020) Evaluation results of national hospital accreditation program in Iran: The view of hospital managers, Journal of Healthcare Quality Research, 35 (1), pp. 12-18.
- Feuerlicht D, Agaliotis M, Hinchcliff R, (2020) Falling short: examination of the validity of methods used to identify paediatric hospital falls in NSW, Australia, Public Health Research and Practice, 30 (1).
- Harrison R, Hinchcliff R, Manias E, Mears S, Heslop D, Walton V, Kwedza R, (2020) Can feedback approaches reduce unwarranted clinical variation? A systematic rapid evidence synthesis, BMC Health Services Research, 20 (1).
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Reece, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Churchill Fellowship recipient
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Professional and Personal Impact of the Australian and New Zealand Comprehensive Gynaecological Surgery Training Program on Specialists in Training and Third-Party Stakeholders
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Julie Hepworth, Professor Steven McPhail - Implementing a multi-year nursing workforce plan
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Ms Lana Elliott, Dr Christina Malatzky - Optimising the distribution of Allied Health professionals in Rural and Remote Queensland
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Cynthia Cliff, Dr Christina Malatzky - Examination of options to support care for older people in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Ms Paula Bowman, Associate Professor Amina Tariq - Do the differing models of private investment (i.e. corporatisation) in the private health field influence clinician engagement and is there a link to outcomes in patient care?
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Emeritus Professor Gerard Fitzgerald