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…healthcare financing, provider compensation, healthcare policy impact, individual health behaviours, provider decision-making, and regulation of life sciences and healthcare markets. Additionally, health economics explores the determinants of health and evaluates…
Drivers of the Growth in Medicines Expenditure
1 October 1997
Increases in expenditure on medicines, above the level of increases in health care expenditure generally, are a feature of all Western health systems, including the UK’s. This paper examines the…
Drug shortages are on the rise – but what is their impact?
16 September 2024
…likely as a society to observe the rising consequent harm to patient health, healthcare systems and healthcare budgets. While policy-makers exert efforts to control pharmaceutical expenditure with cost-containment policies, greater…
Projecting Expenditure on Medicines in the NHS
4 January 2013
Medicines account for less than 10% of total NHS expenditure in the UK. Because spending on medicines is easy to separate out, however, this sector continues to come under particular…
The Impact of Ageing on Health Care Expenditures: Impending Crisis, or Misguided Concern?
1 June 2004
…and public expenditure patterns, due to differing needs and preferences of older versus younger consumers. It has been argued that the compensating effects of simultaneous increases in numbers of the…
OHE Develops New, Bottom-Up Model for Forecasting UK Medicines Expenditure
3 April 2013
Medicines account for less than 10% of total NHS expenditure in the UK. Because spending on medicines is easy to separate out, however, this sector continues to come under particular…
A Prescription for Green Healthcare Delivery: Insights from an Expert Sustainability Webinar
19 July 2023
The impact of healthcare delivery on climate change As our planet faces an unprecedented threat from climate change, it’s time for us to rethink and redesign our healthcare systems to…
Green Healthcare: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
11 September 2024
…healthcare’s own environmental footprint. Some of the most significant barriers to a sustainable healthcare landscape include: Overlooked impacts As climate change accelerates, the extent of the effects on health and…
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
…public expenditure, did gain more votes than the conservatives at the last general election, who themselves proceeded to raise taxes and public expenditure!) A second reason why hypothecation might be…