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Cost-per-QALY in the US and Britain
28 December 2015
…exclusion of cost-effectiveness analysis from the US decision-making process. One of these is that there is no relation between health care expenditures and health outcomes across US hospitals and geographic…
OHE Appoints Principal Health Economist: Dr Alastair Fischer
14 March 2016
…began his career in health economics in 1997. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Population and Community Health at St George’s medical school, where his main research was…
New Publication: Opportunity Costs and Local Health Service Spending Decisions – A Qualitative Study from Wales
26 April 2016
…entitled “Opportunity Costs and Local Health Service Spending Decisions – a Qualitative Study from Wales”, focusses on identifying what, in practice, is foregone when the National Institute for Health and…
What Drives Variations in Relative Effectiveness Across Countries?
31 May 2016
…for exploring the use of a health production function approach to better understand the impact of new medicines and devices for improvements in health outcomes. Moreover, the health production function…
Controlling NHS Expenditure: The Impact of Labour’s NHS White Papers
1 December 1998
The English, Scottish and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) White Papers published by the government in December 1997 and January 1998, have changed the tone of NHS policy. Co-operation is…
The Value of International Volunteers’ Experience to the NHS
24 April 2019
A new paper by OHE and Health Education England on the value of international volunteers’ experience to the NHS has been published in Globalization and Heath. OHE and Health Education…
The Impact of Ageing on Health Care Expenditures: Impending Crisis, or Misguided Concern?
1 June 2004
…Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) and Family Health Services (FHS) in the National Health Service (NHS) England and Wales, which finds that the age-expenditure relationship has not stayed constant…
Private Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care: The Economics of Ownership
1 September 2018
…resolve the question of whether the private ownership of health care provision is good or bad. The economics literature that informs this overview includes: the theory of the organisation of…
Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
…new technologies in the health care sector, via Health Technology Appraisal. The considerable efforts made to ensure that new technologies are effective and good value for money – explicitly recognising…