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Inconsistent Use of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
12 December 2013
…in NHS Scotland for health services that were “at the margin” in 2012–13, i.e. those for which investment or disinvestment was planned or occurred. The study was based on information…
Searching for Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
1 December 2013
This research examines the use of QALY thresholds in NHS Scotland in 2012-13 for health services that were “at the margin”, i.e. those for which investment or disinvestment was planned…
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…
New Research by OHE and University of Glasgow on cost of QALYs in Scotland
17 December 2012
…threshold in the NHS in Scotland. The research uses a previously-untapped source of data on spending at the margin. Funding is being provided by an unrestricted grant from the UK’s…
Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland
4 March 2014
Whether and how a change in performance-related payment motivated change in GP behaviour in Scotland is investigated in a recent article by OHE’s Yan Feng and colleagues, Ada Ma (Hong…
Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement in England and Scotland
28 April 2015, 11:00pm
… Following devolution in 1999 England and Scotland’s National Health Systems (NHS) diverged, resulting in major differences in hospital payment policies. England introduced a case based payment mechanism from 2003/4,…
The Tougher the Better: The Effect of GP Performance Thresholds in Scotland
20 April 2012
…QOF in Scotland in April 2006. They state that “the principal aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of an increase in the maximum performance threshold in the…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar on 29 April 2015: Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement in England and Scotland
24 March 2015
…mechanism in England, to an alterative payment system in Scotland, where this financial incentive does not exist. A difference-in-difference estimator is used to test whether the differences in reimbursement…
Recent Statistics on Orphan Approvals in Scotland and England
23 August 2011
In October 2009, the OHE published research that compared access to orphan medicinal products (OMPs) in selected European countries. At the request of the UK Orphan Medicines Industry Group [1],…