NHS Expenditure
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.
Compendium of Health Statistics
1 January 2009
The annual OHE Compendium of Health Statistics is the one-stop statistical information source on population and health trends in the UK, and the changing finances and…
Organisational Costs in the New NHS
1 April 1999
There is widespread criticism of organisational costs in the NHS. ‘Reduce bureaucracy, release funds for patient care’ has become a popular slogan. This so-called ‘bureaucracy’ may,…
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…
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…
Health Expenditure in the UK
1 May 1986
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Scarce Resources in Health Care
2 January 1979
Over the past few years serious efforts have been made in Britain and elsewhere to achieve a more rational distribution of health care resources. It has…
Health Care Dilemma or ‘Am I kranken, doctor?’
1 August 1975
For the past 25 years the problems of the National Health Service in Britain have been considered primarily in terms of a shortage of resources. This…