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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…
Inconsistent Use of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
12 December 2013
…the NHS Boards’ expenditure plans. This was supplemented by interviews with the Finance Directors of Scotland’s territorial NHS Boards, which both gauged bases for decisions and gathered more detailed information…
Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS
1 January 2012
…possessed experience and expertise in competition/regulation economics, NHS economics, health policy, NHS management, and health care provision. Their views on competition in the NHS were divergent, meaning that the conclusions…
Can a continued focus on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment see the NHS to another 75 years?
27 July 2023
…outcomes was partly enabled by changes in the NHS itself. These can be seen in the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease, published in 2000, which recommended NHS General…
OHE Annual Lecture 2018: Is There an Economic Case for Investing in the NHS? Really?
3 September 2018, 11:00pm
…difficulty of persuading sceptics that the NHS is a good use of public finance. The UK government’s decision to increase NHS England’s budget by £20bn in real terms by 2023…
Report: Competition Can Help the NHS – But Proceed with Care
31 January 2012
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) has just released the report of its Commission on Competition in the NHS, which recommends careful expansion of competition between providers of NHS-funded health…
Invitation to OHE’s Annual Lecture 2018: Is There an Economic Case for Investing in the NHS? Really?
11 July 2018
…Peter Smith will argue that an economic case can be made for investment in the NHS. But it is not straightforward and will involve changes in the way the NHS…
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients.
12 May 2022
…of emergency and, at times, unavoidable improvisation. Sadly, after the heroic effort of the NHS staff during the pandemic, the future of the NHS looks increasingly bleak: in 2021, at…
The Value of International Volunteers’ Experience to the NHS
24 April 2019
…them. Recent literature has identified outcomes reported by international volunteers and how these can be framed within NHS competencies recognised in UK professional development structures, including the NHS Knowledge &…