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Opportunity Cost in Health Care: a Favourite Research Topic for OHE
23 November 2021
…For example, our research in Wales and in Scotland sought to understand how disinvestment and displacement might operate in the NHS, and what that might mean for opportunity costs. Cost-effectiveness…
Organisational Costs in the New NHS
1 April 1999
…Papers which outline reforms to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This section analyses the measures outlined in these papers supposed to reduce organisational costs and concludes…
Establishing a Reasonable Price for an Orphan Drug
11 September 2020
…SMC and NICE define ultra-orphan drugs as medicines granted orphan status by the EMA and treating conditions with a prevalence of 1 in 50,000 people in England and/or Scotland –…
Ethical and Economic Issues in the Appraisal of Medicines for Ultra-rare (or Ultra-orphan) Conditions
13 January 2020
…chronic use. The authors also highlight the potential for inequity in access to ultra-rare medicines across the devolved nations of the UK, owing to the fact that Scotland has its…
HTA and Payment Mechanisms for New Drugs to Tackle AMR
23 September 2019
…of the current state of HTA and contracting for antibiotics in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the UK (England and Scotland), and of the recent proposals in the literature for…
The Reorganised NHS
1 March 1977
…papers refer mainly to the circumstances of the NHS in England. However, some of the more significant characteristics of the health service in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are also…
Competition and contestability between acute hospitals
1 March 1998
…between care providers. In December 1997, the publication of the new Labour government’s own NHS reform White Papers for England and Scotland marked the end of this promotion of competition…
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
…agenda. There could be no better reminder of the salience of this issue than the production of the three national White Papers, on NHS reorganisation in England, Scotland, and Wales,…
Is There Societal Support for an End of Life Premium?
8 May 2017
…to address some of the limitations and ambiguities in the earlier research on this topic. Koonal highlighted three innovative studies led by researchers in the Netherlands, Denmark and Scotland. The…