Darrin Lloyd Baines is a British health economist and academic. His work focuses on health economics,[3][4][5][6] health systems, and pharmacy practice.[7] He has held professorial posts in the United Kingdom and has led international knowledge-exchange networks in health economics,[8] including at Cairo University.[9]
Baines has held various professorial appointments in health economics, including as Professor of Health Economics at Coventry University[13] from 2014 to 2017,[13] and as Professor of Health Economics Bournemouth University[14] from 2017 to 2021.[15] He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln.[16] In 2014, he was appointed Professor of Health Economics at Coventry University, after serving as Associate Professor in Health Economics at the University of Nottingham.[17][18] From 2023 to 2024, Baines was Interim Head of Health Economics at Clarivate, working on applications of AI and data science in health-technology assessment.[19][20]
His areas of work include economic evaluation, modelling and the reform of health systems, with a particular interest in technology-enabled pharmacy.[16] He has also worked in consultancy and within the National Health Service (NHS) in economist and advisory roles.[21]
International collaborations
Baines has led international knowledge-exchange networks in health economics in both Egypt and China.[16] He helped develop a UK–Egypt pharmacoeconomics partnership, supported in part through the British Council. He has also been involved in the UK–China Health and Economy Partnership, contributing to capacity development in health-economics research across Chinese universities.
Research
Baines has published various peer-reviewed articles, reports, and other scholarly publications on community pharmacy, NHS productivity, health service organisation, and other related topics.[12][22][23] He has also worked on topics such as misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.[24]
In his early research, Baines examined GP fundholding, including analyses of selection bias and the development of prescribing-cost metrics such as ASTRO-PU and ASTRO(97)-PU. His work has also addressed NHS commissioning, resource-allocation formulae, and the design of information systems influencing medicines policy.
Baines has contributed to pharmacoeconomic studies in the Middle East and North Africa region, including the EQ-5D-5L valuation study in Egypt. His evaluations of NHS service innovation include economic modelling for the Namaste Care dementia programme and the East Sussex Wellbeing & Employment Service.
Baines resided in Leominster, Herefordshire,[25][26][27] where he built the most extensive antique apothecary collection in the United Kingdom. In 2025, Baines' full Victorian pharmacist's shop collection was sent to auction and was widely covered in national media.[4][5][28][29][30]
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