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An eye on sustainability at the Economist’s Future of Health Europe
30 October 2023
…puzzle in tackling this, taking care beyond the hospital and offering a unique opportunity to improve efficiency, accessibility, and quality of care. Importantly, transitioning to this new model of care…
Latest estimates show that 20 people a day die in unrelieved pain across the UK at the end of their lives
26 November 2024
…they have access to the highest standards of palliative care. In reality, out of 436,022 people with palliative care needs in 2023, only 4.7% of palliative care patients received this…
Contracting for Quality in the NHS is the Topic of OHE’s 20th Annual Lecture
20 May 2013
…quality of care in parts of the NHS. Robert Francis QC recommended a number of unevidenced interventions, which focus on increased regulation. What insight can we gain into NHS quality…
New research reveals, in carers’ own words, the multidimensional burden of caring for leukemia patients
20 November 2025
A first-of-its-kind multinational qualitative survey of informal carers brings to life the multi-dimensional burden of providing informal care to someone living with acute leukemia (AL). 58% of informal carers experienced…
Moving the Needle on Value – OHE Launches Research on US Value-Based Healthcare
10 June 2019
…that research has shown that there is often no correlation between healthcare expenditure and the quality of care. Moreover, many of the advances in outcomes such as life expectancy have…
Capturing the lived experiences of informal care in acute leukemia
20 November 2025
…these informal carers. Recognising and valuing the burden of informal care is increasingly important for clinical practice, health technology assessment, and the development of interventions, support and care strategies that…
Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
…analysing efficiency are exacerbated in primary care. In many countries, primary care provides the first point of access to health care in case of need, coordinates patients’ care with specialists,…
Annual Lecture: Contracting for Quality in the NHS
15 July 2013, 11:00pm
The report of the Independent Inquiry into Care provided by the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust offers a depressing insight into the quality of care in parts of the NHS. Robert…
Unrelieved Pain in Palliative Care in England
1 September 2019
…of the scale of this problem. This study estimates that currently there are approximately 125,971 end-of-life patients receiving, or in need of, palliative care suffering from unrelieved pain. Of these,…