Contact Peter Hill

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Collaboration, research and dialogue

For enquiries related to adaptive EMS allocation, prehospital emergency care, patient safety, dispatch prioritisation, response-time analysis, triage, and health system governance.

Enquiry areas

What to contact me about

The website is intended for researchers, EMS leaders, public-sector healthcare analysts, clinicians, doctoral students, and stakeholders interested in how emergency medical services allocate scarce response capacity under uncertainty.

Academic collaboration

Research collaboration related to prehospital emergency care, emergency medical dispatch, triage, patient safety, EMS systems, response-time analysis, and health services research.

Public-sector governance

Dialogue about how EMS data, response-time distributions, queue exposure, and allocation indicators can support responsible health system governance.

Methods and analysis

Discussion of qualitative content analysis, register-based cohort studies, response-time modelling, feature engineering, and interpretable machine learning.

Presentations and media

Enquiries about lectures, seminars, expert comments, interviews, or presentations on EMS allocation, patient safety, dispatch work, and response-time variability.

Efficient enquiries

Helpful information to include

A short, structured message makes it easier to respond meaningfully, especially for research, collaboration, and public-sector implementation questions.

  • Purpose: collaboration, presentation, media request, methods discussion, or public-sector governance question.
  • Context: organisation, country or EMS setting, and the problem you are working on.
  • Relevant page: thesis, Study I, Study II, Study III, Study IV, publications, or data and methods.
  • Timeline: deadline, event date, or preferred response window.
  • Format: email reply, meeting, seminar, interview, lecture, or written comment.
Research integrity

Interpretation and data boundaries

The research uses qualitative evidence and observational EMS data to understand system behaviour under uncertainty. It does not provide patient-level advice, validated dispatch automation, or operational decision support ready for deployment.

Questions about raw data, patient-level records, granular geography, or operationally sensitive information may be limited by confidentiality, privacy, ethical approval, and public-sector information governance.

Core research links

Useful starting points

These pages provide the fastest route into the research programme, doctoral thesis, and published articles.

Doctoral thesis

Adaptive emergency medical services allocation: crafting the patient safety net in prehospital emergency care. Karolinska Institutet, 2026.

DOI: 10.69622/31262914

Thesis

Study I — BMJ Open

Stewarding scarce response capacity: an inductive qualitative interview study of emergency medical dispatchers prioritising ambulance resources.

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-118269

Peer reviewed

Publications overview

Peer-reviewed articles, thesis, manuscripts, preprints, and selected outputs from the Adaptive EMS Allocation research programme.

Outputs