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.
Managing Poorly Performing Clinicians: The Value of Independent Help
1 March 2011
The UK’s National Clinical Assessment Agency (NCAS) is designed specifically to provide advice on performance issues, on request, to NHS organisations employing or contracting with doctors,…
PROMs and Choice in the NHS
30 March 2010
PROMs are intended to fill a critical gap in understanding the impact of health care on the patient’s quality of life. OHE is closely involved in…
A Comparison of Alternative Variants of the Lead and Lag Time TTO
12 January 2010
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…
Assessment of the Impact of Orphan Medicinal Products on the European Economy and Society
1 November 2010
This report examines the effect of the European Union’s 1999 Regulation on Orphan Medicinal Products (OMPs) on the European economy and society. This study collected data…
New Drugs to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: EU Policy Options
1 October 2010
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to drugs, a natural and unavoidable consequence of treating infectious diseases, is a growing global public health threat. The EU Commission is to…
US Healthcare Reform: Monumental Health System Transformation or Fatally Flawed Compromise?
1 September 2010
The speaker for the OHE’s 17th Annual Lecture was Dr Alan Garber, Director both of Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and its Center for Primary…
Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their…
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…
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…