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Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

18 July 2022

…HSRP later in 2001, according to which governorate-level financial intermediaries became entitled to pay monthly incentives to healthcare providers in “contracted” PHC facilities based on pre-specified performance criteria. The financial…

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…

The US Inflation Reduction Act: What Do the Experts Think?

25 May 2023

…with how to tackle this. The issue of affordability transcends health care systems. All countries must figure out how to make best use of their finite health care resources on…

Latest estimates show that 20 people a day die in unrelieved pain across the UK at the end of their lives

26 November 2024

…by socioeconomic disparities and inequalities in access to healthcare. It’s therefore crucial that population access to palliative care, investment in high-quality end-of-life care and improving pain management is fully considered…

Value, Affordability, and Decision Making

…of methodologies in support of robust and systematic value assessments in health care systems. Our research on this theme addresses questions such as: What is the opportunity cost of adopting…

Economics of Innovation

…fail, either because they do not provide enough value or because patients cannot access the treatments due to systems being unable to afford the price. OHE leads a wide-ranging programme…

Health Services in Western Europe

5 January 1963

Britain is not unique in having a health service. Practically every European country has accepted the provision of medical care as a community responsibility. Amongst the sixteen countries in Western…

Hospital Costs in Perspective

1 June 1963

Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. They are at present taxing the minds…

Personal Health Services: A Perspective of the General Medical & the Pharmaceutical Services

1 October 1963

Behind the planning of the National Health Service lay the proposition that everyone should be entitled to the services of a personal physician. For the first time a scheme of…