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After the Transplant: Potential Benefits for the NHS and UK Kidney Transplant Patients

1 November 2021

…short-term; reduce societal costs, including the value of lost productivity time, by almost £1.14 billion; and allow the NHS to reallocate £577 million to other healthcare programmes. This represents a…

Closing the ‘Know-Do’ Gap for Health Systems Reform at the Policy Level

1 April 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has become quite skilled at promoting what changes are desirable in health care systems, and why, but has largely left how to implement those changes…

Risk Adjusting Health Care Resource Allocations

1 December 1999

Most health care systems are characterised by both purchasers (insurers, health authorities), who buy health care for a particular population, and providers (hospitals, primary care physicians), who supply health care…

To Publish or Not: Experience and Evidence About Publishing Hospital Outcomes Data

1 February 2004

Since the mid-1980s, the publication of hospital outcomes data has become increasingly popular. Canada and the US operate performance reporting systems, with similar initiatives planned in Australia and New Zealand…

Educational Webinar: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Care Decision Making – Emerging Good Practices

28 February 2017

…definition for MCDA in healthcare decision making and developing good practice guidelines for conducting MCDA to aid healthcare decision making. This webinar provides an overview of the work of the…

OHE at ISPOR Europe 2018

…Systems. OHE’s Adrian Towse, Graham Cookson, Nancy Devlin, Martina Garau, Koonal Shah, Amanda Cole, Margherita Neri, and Chris Sampson will all be attending the conference and contributing to the programme…

Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Five Questions We Think Matter a Lot

29 March 2019

…and protect against collusion. Spending on pharmaceuticals and other healthcare commodities is high and makes up a large proportion of healthcare spending in rich and poorer markets alike. In this,…

OHE Lunchtime Seminar: How Do We Measure the ‘Value’ in Value-based Care?

19 August 2019

…which providers are paid based on the amount of healthcare services they deliver. The “value” in value-based healthcare is derived from measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivering the…

Ethical Goals and Design Criteria for ‘Fair Access” to Drugs in the US Health Care System

31 March 2021

…private, lies inescapable ethical tension between two desired goals: first, that insurance allows patients and clinicians to choose those healthcare services they believe are most likely to save lives and…