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.
Making the best of the Private Finance Initiative in the NHS
1 December 2002
This briefing is based on the results of a seminar held in London on 30 May 2002. The seminar titled Building long term partnerships, was organised…
Influencing Prescribing in a Primary Care Led NHS
11 January 2002
The aim of the project was to evaluate the likely success of medicines management in a primary care led UK National Health Service (NHS). The methods…
Interpreting and Addressing Inequalities in Health: From Black to Acheson to Blair to . . . ?
5 January 2002
This paper is an updated and expanded version of the 7th OHE annual lecture delivered on 1 June 2000. It takes account of research published up…
Don’t Look Back? Voluntary and Charitable Finance of Hospitals
1 July 2001
This book provides a reassessment of the role of charitable and voluntary fundraising for health care, with a particular focus on the hospital. It does so…
The Links of Public Health and Economic Development
5 January 2001
I am really grateful to have the chance to spend an hour with you to talk about a subject of enormous importance. I am particularly gratified…
The Economics of the Private Finance Initiative in the NHS
4 January 2001
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is officially described as a means for providing skilled and efficient services to public sector organisations and hence to the communities…
Why Care About Health Inequality?
1 January 2001
Public policy in the UK is placing increasing emphasis on health inequalities. The first signal of this renewed commitment came soon after the Labour government was…
Health Care without Frontiers?
1 December 2000
The purpose of this paper is to set out the background to the development of regulations governing cross-border health care in the EU; to explore the…
Improving Population Health in Industrialised Nations
1 September 2000
Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 6 December 1999: ‘The Causes of Improved Population Health in Industrialised Nations: How will the 21st century…