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Combination Therapies: A Step Forward to the Value Attribution Problem
4 January 2023
…therapy (CT) gives rise to several challenges for payers, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies, industry, and health systems. This leads to delays in or lack of access to valuable therapies…
Securing Funds for the Proposed NHS Multi-year Funding: The Feasibility of Using a Hypothecated Tax
1 October 2018
This OHE publication by Nick Timmins, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the Kings Fund, sets out arguments in favour and against. It is based on the…
Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement Treatment in England and Scotland
19 May 2015
…went on to explain that since 2005 Scotland and England have followed different healthcare financing policies. Case based payment systems were introduced in England, but not in Scotland. This creates…
Guest post: The Economics of Elevated Hospital Mortality at Weekends
14 July 2015
…for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme (project number 12/128/48). The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those…
Government and Charity Funding of Cancer Research: Public Preferences and Choices
13 October 2015
…government and charity funding of medical research. Just published in Health Research Policy and Systems is a paper examining the views of the UK general public about how a change…
New OHE Seminar Briefing: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What Works?
30 June 2016
On 16th September 2015 Professor Luigi Siciliani led an OHE lunchtime seminar on waiting time policies in the health sector. The seminar briefing is now available. On 16th September 2015…
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:…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Management in the NHS
24 July 2017
…health care delivery and health system productivity and, more widely, on the design and consequences of incentives within the public sector and the boundary between the state and private markets….
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: NHS Agency Staffing and the Impact of Recent Interventions
6 September 2017
…Health since January 2017. He was previously Director of Policy and Economics at NHS Improvement and has held senior positions, implementing reforms in health and other public services, at HM…