Publications
Trends in Economic Evaluation
1 April 1998
The aim of this paper is to consider recent trends in the volume and characteristics of economic evaluation literature by interrogating the Health Economic Evaluations Database…
Competition and contestability between acute hospitals
1 March 1998
The 1989-1991 Conservative reforms of the National Health Service (NHS) introduced fundamental changes in the organisation of health care in the UK. At the same time…
Managed Care – A Model for the UK?
3 January 1998
This paper examines the potential for managed care techniques to develop in the UK National Health Service. It begins with a review of managed care approaches…
Accountable Health Care: Is it compatible with social solidarity?
1 February 1998
If a dart were thrown at a map of the world and one identified the national capital nearest the dart, the following would be a safe…
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
I am greatly flattered to be invited to deliver the 1998 annual lecture of the Office of Health Economics, partly on account of my distinguished predecessors,…
Health Financing and Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
12 January 1997
The objective of this report is to provide an assessment of the reform process of the health care sector in the Countries of Central and Eastern…
Theory and Evidence on Cost Sharing in Health Care: An Economic Perspective
1 December 1997
Faced with the growing pressures on health care budgets, policy makers around the world have turned to different forms of direct charging for health services. However,…
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.…
Prescribing, Budgets and Fundholding in General Practice
10 January 1997
In April 1991, a radical programme of public health care reform was introduced by the Conservative Government. The avowed intention of the programme was to improve…