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.

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2015 OHE Annual Lecture: Regulation, Reimbursement, and Evidence on New Medical Technologies: Experiences and Future Directions in the United States

10 June 2015

Register for the 2015 OHE Annual Lecture. Dr Mark McClellan will present on 6 July on the topic of Regulation, Reimbursement, and Evidence on New Medical…

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Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement Treatment in England and Scotland

19 May 2015

This post provides an overview of Dr Irene Papanicolas and Professor Alistair McGuire’s OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the effect of financial incentives on hip replacement in…

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar on 29 April 2015: Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement in England and Scotland

24 March 2015

Dr Irene Papanicolas and Dr Alistair McGuire will speak at an OHE lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 29th April 2015.

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OHE Briefing on Incentives to Follow Best Practice in Health Care

27 February 2015

OHE has published a Briefing by Karlsberg Schaffer, Sussex and Feng summarising the evidence on incentives that encourage providers of health care to follow guidance on…

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International Comparison of Medicines Usage: Quantitative Analysis from a Swedish Perspective

1 May 2015

The OHE undertook an analysis of the uptake of medicines in 13 high income countries. The UK perspective on this was published in November 2014 by…

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Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care

1 February 2015

There has been long-standing interest in the use of incentives to encourage delivery of high-quality health care services at the lowest feasible cost. There has been…

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Improving Sustainability through Needs-Based Planning

31 December 2014

The issue of health service planning regularly hits the headlines. In a speech delivered in October by the Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens described…

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Comparative and Relative Effectiveness: A Challenge For Health Systems, Regulators, or Pharmaceutical Companies?

12 January 2014

This OHE Occasional Paper by Adrian Towse discusses Professor Bengt Jönsson’s observations in a 2011 publication about the role of relative effectiveness research (RE) in the…

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Contracting for Quality in the NHS

1 January 2014

This monograph, based on Professor Maynard’s remarks at the 20th OHE Annual Lecture, explores the critical issue of ensuring the quality of care in the NHS.…