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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Adjusting Patient Case Mix to Compare PROMs across Providers
10 December 2013
The model reported in this publication aims at valid comparisons across providers, despite variations in patient populations. A number of arguments support the attractive notion of…
Assessing Use of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
12 November 2013
This research addresses two critical issues about the use of the EQ-VAS. A paper recently published in Quality of Life Research by OHE’s Nancy Devlin and…