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What NHS Trusts Can Do to Reduce Waiting Times for Cancer Treatment
2 January 2020
The NHS Improvement Economics team is part of the Strategy Directorate in NHS Improvement. NHS Improvement aims to implement changes to help improve both quality and efficiency. Recent research by…
NHS Agency Staffing and the Impact of Recent Interventions
1 January 2018
This seminar focuses on the NHS staffing markets and the use of temporary staff, specifically in the NHS provider sector, i.e. foundation trusts and NHS trust. (which include hospitals). To…
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
1 June 2016
This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Professor Luigi Siciliani on waiting time policies in the health sector from an international perspective, and highlights which policies have worked…
International Comparison of Medicines Usage: Quantitative Analysis from a Swedish Perspective
1 May 2015
The OHE undertook an analysis of the uptake of medicines in 13 high income countries. The UK perspective on this was published in November 2014 by the ABPI. OHE has…
Changes in Determining Medicines Pricing in France, Germany and the UK
24 January 2013
…being discussed in pricing and reimbursement/HTA systems in France, Germany and the UK. New requirements for health technology assessment in Europe have important implications for markets and for access to…
New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context
7 February 2013
…countries with comprehensive insurance, the authors discuss the appropriate use of an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) that reflects citizens’ willingness to pay for health gain. They note that current regulatory structures…
OHE This Week: BioWales 2013, UK Medicines Market and EQ-5D in Asia
18 March 2013
19 March: Jon Sussex will be at BioWales 2013 speaking on the health and wider economic benefits of life sciences research. 21 March: Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz will give his updated annual…
2022 Innovation Policy Prize
…of individuals’ willingness–to–pay for a marginal improvement in population health, while a supply–side approach assumes that the ‘threshold’ should reflect the health opportunity cost of reimbursing medicines within a budget constrained health care…
Prevention pays off – so why aren’t we doing more of it?
5 June 2025
…seasonal adult vaccination programmes (e.g. against flu or COVID-19) that deliver protection within weeks after administration. What causes suboptimal vaccine policies? Three barriers stand in the way: Reactive healthcare systems:…