Search results for: Health Care Systems

New Research by OHE and University of Glasgow on cost of QALYs in Scotland

17 December 2012

New health care technologies often improve health but also increase costs. Judging whether they are good value for money involves comparing what QALYs are gained from new technologies, compared to…

Patient Participation Awareness Week 2022

30 May 2022

…the quality of healthcare systems. Understanding the diverse needs and perspectives of patients can help to inform healthcare decision-making and contribute to the transparency, accountability, and credibility of resource allocation…

Delivering the Triple Win: A Value-Based Approach to Pricing

20 April 2023

…is based on the principle that prices should reflect the value of a new medicine to patients, healthcare systems, and society, versus the current standard of care. Unlike other pricing…

Interventions that Encourage High-value Nursing Home Care: Lessons for the UK

1 August 2017

This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Professor David Grabowski, which provided a health economics perspective on how payment and delivery interventions can encourage high-value nursing home care….

NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity

3 March 2008

…About one pound of every eleven spent in the UK goes to health care, most to NHS care. A large body of data is available on health care inputs and…

Themes

…about the allocation of health care budgets require the assessment of the effects of health care interventions and of the value for money that they provide. Decision-making processes leading to…

Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

…interventions, better ways to organise health services, and numerous other kinds of health care technology improvement.   We identified a need for a more consistent frame of reference for measuring…

Informal Caring Burden in HTA Series: Webinar 3 – Capturing carer burden in HTA: what is the future?

2 March 2023, 2:30pm

To date, incorporating informal care considerations in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has been relatively infrequent and often inconsistent. Experts in the OHE webinar discussed the impacts of informal care, the…

As UN General Assembly Highlights Tuberculosis Fight, Will BRICS Lead on the R&D Agenda?

26 September 2018

…health spending in these countries, and BRICS governments can increasingly afford to pay for innovative health products. To date, donor “push” funding—grants for R&D through public-private partnerships—has indeed helped advance…