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Invitation to OHE’s Annual Lecture 2018: Is There an Economic Case for Investing in the NHS? Really?
11 July 2018
…in finance ministries and some sections of the media – that health systems such as the NHS are ‘black holes’, constantly demanding increased funding without concomitant returns to society. The…
Accountable Health Care: Is it compatible with social solidarity?
1 February 1998
…pursued by, say, the British National Health Service or the government-run Canadian health-insurance system, one cannot compare market-driven health systems with these government-run systems in terms of their relative ‘efficiency’….
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
…to other parts of the economy. According to this account, even the most successful western economies have lapsed into a seemingly permanent malaise about their health care systems. Professor Reinhardt…
Managing to do Better: General Practice in the 21st Century
1 July 2000
Health systems the world over are striving to manage their available resource to deliver the best value for the public’s health. For most nations, the general medical practitioner (GP) is…
New Business Models for Antibiotics. What Can We Learn from Other Industries?
7 April 2015
…is currently a thin global pipeline. This has spurred governments worldwide to seek approaches for encouraging innovation in antibiotics. Many groups within the healthcare arena are seeking solutions to…
international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI): Mapping of Priority-setting in Health in 17 Low and Middle Income Countries Across Asia, Latin America and Africa
22 April 2015
…vision of increased public financing and provision of healthcare, with explicit priority-setting recognised as a crucial means of ensuring sustainable UHC. Leaders in all four countries have expressed a strong…
New OHE Publication: Model of Behaviour within Fuzzy Budget Constraints
23 December 2015
…(HSDMs) who make resource allocation decisions on the level and mix of healthcare production, while taking into consideration the maximum expenditure (budget) allowed by the government or the health system…
OHE Appoints Principal Health Economist: Dr Alastair Fischer
14 March 2016
…of areas: the development of a new way of sampling for the Australian Bureau of Statistics; and the analysis of voting systems; the diffusion of innovations and experimental economics. Alastair…
Opportunities for Utilising ‘Real World Data’ in South Korea
20 October 2017
…South Korea, which operates a single-payer health insurance system. Patients’ utilisation of healthcare resources are captured readily through claims databases, operated by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the…