Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems
Health system policies should incentivise high-quality health care in areas of highest need at the lowest feasible cost. Our aim is to expand our understanding of policies that result in healthier populations and achieve sustainability while being responsive to patients’ needs.
Interventions that Encourage High-value Nursing Home Care: Lessons for the UK
1 August 2017
This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Professor David Grabowski, which provided a health economics perspective on how payment and delivery interventions can encourage…
Incentives for New Drugs to Tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance
1 May 2017
Resistance to antibiotics is growing, posing a major health risk in rich and poor countries. Additional ways of rewarding R&D are required. Mechanisms designed to encourage…
Comparing the UK EQ-5D-3L and the English EQ-5D-5L Value Sets
1 March 2017
Three EQ-5D value sets (the EQ-5D-3L, crosswalk and EQ-5D-5L) are now available for cost utility analysis in the UK and/or England. The value sets’ characteristics differ,…
Delivering an Outcomes-based NHS: Creating the Right Conditions
1 February 2017
This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Dr Nicholas Hicks, Co-founder and Chief Executive of COBIC (Capitated Outcomes-Based Incentivised Care). Dr Hicks describes COBIC’s…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Martin Chalkley and Jon Sussex: Providing Health Care to NHS Patients: How Much Does Ownership Matter?
13 December 2016
On Monday 16th January, Professor Martin Chalkley (University of York) and Jon Sussex (RAND Europe) will lead an OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the topic of: Providing…
New Report Published: Improving Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Future Cancer Care
26 September 2016
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) publish a report evaluating the efficiency of resource allocation in cancer care…
New OHE Seminar Briefing: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What Works?
30 June 2016
On 16th September 2015 Professor Luigi Siciliani led an OHE lunchtime seminar on waiting time policies in the health sector. The seminar briefing is now available.
The Distribution of the EQ-5D-5L Index in Patient Populations
1 October 2016
EQ-5D data are often summarised by an EQ-5D index, whose distribution for its original version, the EQ-5D-3L, often shows two distinct groups in patient populations, arising…
Improving Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Future Cancer Care
9 January 2016
The economic burden that cancer poses on our society is staggering – 25 million years of healthy life lost, at cost of €126 billion including €52…