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Office of Health Economics latest research estimates 20 people a day die in unrelieved pain in the UK in the last 3 months of their lives
26 November 2024
…about how the healthcare system should prepare for changing levels of demand. Even assuming hospice-level care (assumed to be the highest standard of palliative care available), 6,104 people in England…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?
29 April 2021
…(e.g. drugs and medical devices) in many health systems is informed by cost-effectiveness analysis, comparing the incremental gains from a new technology against best alternative uses of that money. In England,…
Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there is much that can…
OHE Critique of CBO’S Pharmaceutical Investment Model Provides Warning for Policymakers on Reliability of Estimates
3 December 2021
US policymakers have been considering reforms to reduce drug spending, including allowing the government to directly set prices for branded medicines. Such policies would reduce global pharmaceutical revenues, leading to…
Trends in European Health Spending
5 January 1981
In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. Between 1960 and 1978 the percentage of gross national product spent on…
Health Care as a Handicraft Industry
9 January 1995
The seemingly inexorable rise in real health care costs (i.e. over and above the rate of inflation) has been a cause of great concern to governments throughout the world. Few…
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
The subject of earmarked or hypothecated taxes dropped out of the mainstream of public finance theory a great many years ago. It is doubtful whether many of today’ s economists…
Controlling NHS Expenditure: The Impact of Labour’s NHS White Papers
1 December 1998
The English, Scottish and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) White Papers published by the government in December 1997 and January 1998, have changed the tone of NHS policy. Co-operation is…
Health Expenditure in the UK
1 May 1986
Share this: Download publication Robert Chew In the UK in 1984 the combined expenditure on health care services by both the public and private sectors rose to a record total…