Royal College of Physicians : Chair of the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine

Institute of Medical Ethics : Trustee

Medical versus social egg freezing: the importance of future choice for women's decision-making

Managerial thinking in neonatal care: a qualitative study of place of care decision-making for preterm babies born at 27–31 weeks gestation in England

The Surveillance of Pregnant Bodies in the Age of Digital Health: Ethical Dilemmas

Fairness, Ethnicity, and COVID-19 Ethics: A Discussion of How the Focus on Fairness in Ethical Guidance During the Pandemic Discriminates Against People From Ethnic Minority Backgrounds

Parents’ decision-making following diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly in pregnancy: Practical, theoretical and ethical tensions

Seven features of safety in maternity units: a framework based on multisite ethnography and stakeholder consultation

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic

The fundamental role of storytelling and practical wisdom in facilitating the ethics education of junior doctors

Optimising neonatal service provision for preterm babies born between 27 and 31 weeks gestation in England (OPTI-PREM), using national data, qualitative research and economic analysis

“Being Guided”: What Oncofertility Patients’ Decisions Can Teach Us about the Efficacy of Autonomy, Agency, and Decision- Making Theory in the Contemporary Clinical Encounter

About time: how time infuences and facilitates patient autonomy in the clinical encounter

Improving healthcare services

Sociological theory and Qualitative research methods

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Dr Alexis Paton is a medical ethicist and sociologist. Her work examines areas of ethical concern in medicine, with a focus on health inequality, patient safety, decision-making in medicine, and healthcare improvement. She is an expert in medical ethics, medical sociology and social epidemiology. She does practical research designed to improve health policy and practice. 

She has expertise in and can speak to several topics within these disciplines including: 

•	COVID-19 ethics
•	Pandemic public health
•	The impact of COVID-19 on BAME groups
•	Health inequalities
•	The social determinants of health and illness
•	Patient autonomy
•	Maternity safety
•	Neonatal care
•	Fertility preservation
•	Medical ethics education. 

She is currently the Chair of the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine for the Royal College of Physicians and a Trustee of the Institute of Medical Ethics. She writes a regular column for the Independent, and all her pieces can be viewed at: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/alexis-paton

Health Inequalities

Health Improvement

Sociology of Health

Bioethics

Medical Ethics

Medical Sociology

Qualitative Research

COVID-19 Pandemic

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Everything affects our health – even Trussonomics

I’ve seen the future of the NHS – with enough money, it can thrive

Take it from me, kiddo – each and every one of us ‘doctors’ is deserving of the title

After Matt Hancock’s snap decision to axe Public Health England, this is everything we could lose

I’m worried about Boris Johnson’s plan to tackle obesity – the government cannot abandon its responsibility to the public

The government can’t just follow the science – we need ethics to guide us out of lockdown

Coronavirus: exposing class divides

We’ve just witnessed the last avoidable NHS scandal – the ones that will follow are now simply inevitable

Understanding Barriers to Healthy and Sustainable Communities Projec

Planning Ahead

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Director, Centre for Health and Society

  Dr Alexis Paton is the director of the Centre for Health and Society at Aston University The online event, How to heal the NHS, will take place on 27 October at 18.30 BST Experts will examine how to secure the future of the UK’s health system.  Dr Alexis Paton, director of the Centre for Health and Society at Aston University, will be joining a panel of experts to examine how to secure the future of the UK's health system at an on online event on 27 October at 18.30 BST. 

How to heal the NHS - is the Independent’s latest panel discussion in its virtual event series. It will be chaired by health correspondent Rebecca Thomas and the panel will also include Hannah Barham-Brown, a GP and deputy leader of the Women’s Equality Party, and Dr Suzanne Tyler the Royal College of Midwives executive director.

Participants will have the opportunity to listen to the experts speaking exclusively with The Independent on this topic and have the chance to ask them a question either pre-submitted ahead of the event or during it using the Q&A box on Zoom.

Dr Alexis Paton, director of the Centre for Health and Society, Aston University said: 

“The concerns about the state and stability of the NHS were deeply entrenched before 2020 and then of course the pandemic hit. “The additional pressures and longer waiting times for appointments and treatment have only grown following a time when NHS staff have experienced stresses like they never have before. The situation has led to increased fears of privatisation and increasing staff shortages. “I welcome this opportunity to contribute to a debate about such a vitally important topic.”  To find out how to sign up to the event for free click on the Eventbrite page. 

Aston University expert to join panel discussion hosted by The Independent on how to heal the NHS

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