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Forecasting the UK Medicines Bill to 2014
7 November 2011
At the 13th Annual Conference of the Institute of Healthcare Management, Scotland, Jon Sussex discussed OHE’s model for projecting the UK NHS medicines bill to 2014 and a range of…
Seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University: Local Health Care Expenditure Plans and Their Opportunity Costs
11 January 2016
OHE’s Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer presented at the Glasgow Health Economics Seminar Series the results of a paper on the value of the cost-effectiveness threshold in Scotland. In November, OHE’s Sarah…
Routine Funding in the NHS in the UK of Medicines Authorised Between 2011 and 2016 via the European Centralised Procedure
1 December 2017
…access across England, Scotland and Wales. The centralised procedure was created in 1995 to facilitate access to innovative medicines across the European Union. Since then the scope of authorisation via…
GP Commissioning Groups – The Nottingham Experience
1 December 1998
From 1 April 1999 the structure of the Health Services in the United Kingdom will look radically different. In England there will be Primary Care Groups (PCGs), in Scotland Primary…
Does Free Personal Care for the Elderly Reduce Informal Caregiving?
25 February 2013
…was implemented in Scotland in 2002, but not elsewhere in the UK. Forecasters predict that the population of people aged 65+ will double in the UK by 2050, constituting a…
Surgical Research and Development in the NHS – Promotion, Management and Evaluation
1 July 2000
…the innovation, promotion and adoption of technologies. The 1997 and 1998 NHS White Papers for England, Scotland and Wales (Department of Health, 1997 ; Scottish Office, 1997 ; Welsh Office,…
The Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving
1 February 2013
…that was implemented in Scotland in 2002, but not elsewhere in the UK. Under The Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act, people aged 65 and over are entitled to a…
Let’s talk about (health) inequalities
1 April 2022
…is largely shared with other institutions and organisations such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies or Public Health Scotland, although whereas the economic literature uses ‘inequalities’ to denote differences between…
Recently Published: Local Health Care Expenditure Plans and their Opportunity Costs
8 September 2015
…information on the cost-effectiveness of “marginal” services in NHS Scotland – those planned to receive significant investment or disinvestment in the coming financial year. They also explore how the NHS…