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Health: the Politicians Dilemma
1 June 1986
This paper from the Office of Health Economics contains some of the newer ideas which have been floated in order to tackle the economic problems urgently facing the National Health…
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What Works?
27 October 2015
…2014. Measuring and comparing health care waiting times in OECD countries, Health Policy, 118(3), pp.292-303. Moscelli, Siciliani, Gutacker and Cookson, 2015. Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does patients’ choice…
New Publication: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products and Health Technology Assessment
12 October 2018
…and questions are being asked about their value for patients and how healthcare systems should pay for them. A new publication in the European Journal of Health Economics, co-authored by…
Local Health Services
7 January 1965
…cost. The third major part of the National Health Service consists of the services provided by county councils and county boroughs in their role of Local Health Authorities which account…
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 but no attempt is…
New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes
18 October 2011
…and David Parkin of NHS South of England. The study, funded by the UK Department of Health, is the first to examine the relationship between hospital costs and patients’ health…
Valuing health in an era of climate crisis: informing policy through economic evidence
8 July 2025, 10:00am
…of Health Technologies: Using Process-Based Life Cycle Assessment to Measure Carbon Emissions Andrew Briggs Professor of Health Economics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Harmonizing Methods Across Health and…
An Issues Panel: Developing Cost Effectiveness for Decision Making: What can be Learnt from “Value Based Pricing”?
29 July 2015
…a price setter. A review of the survey evidence collected by the Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU) as part of the DH VBP…
Understanding the NHS in the 1980’s
1 May 1984
…the gradual emergence of a less controlled, more individualistic social environment has meant that British health care consumers have become less tolerant of inconvenient or inadequate patterns of service than…