Nathan Proudlove is a Senior Lecturer in operational research and management science at Alliance Manchester Business School. Prior to the creation of the merged University of Manchester in 2004, he was a Lecturer at Manchester School of Management (UMIST). He is a member of the Health Management Group.

He has worked on health management issues since the mid-1990s. Nathan's particular interests are operational management and flow issues such as capacity and demand, forecasting, bed management and process improvement. He has worked with many hospital trusts and with national and regional NHS and Department of Health bodies, PA Consulting and the Health Foundation. He has worked on many funded research and evaluation projects, currently on unporfessional behaviours (NIHR) and  electronic transfusion support systems (Barts Charity).

Nathan teaches service and quality improvement, and systems modelling on postgraduate and executive education programmes at AMBS. He also teaches and supervises in these areas on a masters programme for international healthcare staff at the University of Oxford.

He is Director of the Leadership and Management component of the NHS Higher Specialist Scientific Training programme (PgDip/DClinSci) commissioned by NHS England and the National School for Healthcare Sciences, to take hospital scientists to consultant clinical scientist grade. he runs the large quality improvement unit and supervises thesis research projects. 

He has served as an External Examiner for: Lancaster University (undergraduate and doctoral), Nottingham Trent University (masters), the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' (doctoral) and the Unversity of Kent (doctoral).

Operational, quality and service improvement in healthcare. Application of operational research modelling approaches and operations management principles, particularly in healthcare. Data analytics, particularly healthcare performance. 

Specific tools and techniques include: comptuer simulation, lean, six sigma, theory of constraints, systems thinking, forecasting, process mapping, statstical process control.

Past projects include evaluation of six sigma in the NHS for the NHS Modernisation Agency, winter demand forecasting for NHS regional oversight, bed and capacity modelling.

Fellow of the Operational Research Society (FORS)

NHS Wales Patient Flow Programme Evaluation Advisory Group The Health Foundation 2015-16

Grants (last 5 years)

Evaluation of the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of the implementation of bedside electronic transfusion checks, Barts Charity (Co-Investigator)

Understanding how unprofessional behaviour in English NHS trusts can be prevented and reduced, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (Co-Investigator)

Using real world data and rapid learning to drive improvements in lung cancer survival, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (Co-Investigator)