Healthcare Funding
Adult vaccination programmes deliver socio-economic benefits up to 19 times initial investment, according to new report
18 April 2024
Our new report examines the promise of prevention in healthcare and provides six key recommendations that could usher in a new era of optimised prevention.
Grow and diversify funding for prevention to boost the nation’s health and prosperity, urges landmark report
12 October 2023
Our new report examines the promise of prevention in healthcare and provides six key recommendations that could usher in a new era of optimised prevention.
Reimagining Prevention for a Healthier, More Prosperous Society
12 October 2023
In this report, we highlight the significance of prevention as a cost-effective and often cost-saving investment for public sector resources. Prevention, covering primary, secondary, and tertiary measures, can help to reduce ill health, improve healthcare capacity, and increase wider economic growth.
G7 Investments in New Antibiotics Would Pay Off – For Everyone
9 December 2022
Programs to incentivise antibiotic R&D are underway in the UK and under consideration in the US, EU, Canada, and Japan. We have assessed the benefits and costs to the members of the G7/EU and project that all G7/EU members would see big payoffs ranging from 11:1 in the UK to 28:1 for the US and Japan. Global returns from reducing the 1.27m people dying each year from AMR are even higher.
The Economics of Antibiotics – Part 3: Creating a Healthy Global Market for New Antibiotics
12 October 2022
In the third instalment in our blog series, we think about how the rest of the world can join the effort to stimulate a healthy market for new antibiotics….
Can a Strong Economic Case Be Made for Investing in the NHS?
1 January 2019
Debate about funding has highlighted the difficulty of persuading sceptics that the NHS is a good use of public finance. There is a widely held view…
Securing Funds for the Proposed NHS Multi-year Funding: The Feasibility of Using a Hypothecated Tax
1 October 2018
This OHE publication by Nick Timmins, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the Kings Fund, sets out arguments in favour and against. It…
Private Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care: The Economics of Ownership
1 September 2018
This OHE Briefing outlines the NHS ownership debate through the lens of economics. The aim of the Briefing is to improve understanding of how economics can…
How Fair? Competition between Independent and NHS Providers to Supply Non-Emergency Hospital Care to NHS Patients in England
1 September 2009
Written while Labour Government policies still were in force, this Briefing clearly and thoroughly examines non-discretionary cost differences between public and independent providers that may have…