Search results for: Health Care Systems

Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar

16 March 2012

…care v. health care — and also be useful in evaluating individual health technologies or treatments. Download Dolan, P. (2011) Using happiness to value health. London: Office of Health Economics….

Comparing Prescription Medicines Prices in the UK to Prices in Other Countries

23 October 2012

Since 1996, in its yearly PPRS Report to Parliament, the Department of Health in England has published international price comparisons of branded medicines used in the primary care setting. The…

Tracking Changes in the Causes of Death in England and Wales

25 October 2012

OHE’s health and health care statistics service long has been respected as a source of reliable data. In an OHE Briefing just published, OHE uses this data to take a…

Presentation at the NHS Global Health Volunteering Group Meeting: “The Value of International Volunteering and Placements to the NHS”

…(1) identify the various benefits to the NHS from returned international healthcare volunteers; and (2) quantify those benefits in monetary terms.  Benefits to the NHS from the returned international healthcare…

Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Health System Strengthening: A Platforms Perspective

1 February 2020

…a health care system are interdependent: “vertical” programmes that address one disease or health issue require sufficiently strong “horizontal” support and coordination across various health service sectors. This relationship always…

Competition in the NHS: ‘Payment by Results’

17 August 2010

Jon Sussex, Deputy Director of the OHE, researches incentives and competition in UK health services. In July, he presented findings on ‘Payment by Results’ to the Health and Social Care…

The Inflation Reduction Act: Price negotiation underway for the first 10 drugs

29 November 2023

…pharmaceutical market is the largest in the world. Coupled with high healthcare expenditures, the US also enjoys the broadest and fastest access to medicines globally. Among the biggest questions that…

OHE at HESG: Informal Caregiving and Valuing End-of-Life Care

28 June 2013

…care. It finds a synergistic effect, with informal caregiving increasing, rather than being replaced by, state-sponsored care.   Koonal Shah’s research on valuing health at the end of life also…

Nancy Devlin

27 February 2019

…the use of MCDA in health care decision making; priority setting in health care; and measuring the production, performance and efficiency of hospitals. She has over 30 years of experience…