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.
Primary Care and the NHS Reforms: A Manager’s View
1 March 2000
Writing on the future of Primary Care Groups/Trusts, and of Labour’s health service reforms in general, invites subsequent ridicule by those blessed with the clarity of…
Narrowing the Gap between provision and need for medicines in developing countries
1 February 2000
Health and economic development is positively linked. External investments are needed to break the vicious cycle of poor health and poverty plaguing less developed countries (LDCs).…
Risk Adjusting Health Care Resource Allocations
1 December 1999
Most health care systems are characterised by both purchasers (insurers, health authorities), who buy health care for a particular population, and providers (hospitals, primary care physicians),…
Genomics, Healthcare and Public Policy
1 October 1999
This Conference on Genomics, Healthcare and Public Policy, organised by the Office of Health Economics in collaboration with the School of Public Policy, University College London,…
Leadership, Change and Primary Care Groups
1 October 1999
A number of important themes emerged, as well as some signals as to the leadership development needs of those charged with ensuring PCGs’ success. They challenges…
Public Involvement in Priority Setting
1 September 1999
International and UK experience illustrates the difficulty of involving the publica in health caare priority setting in ways that enable politicians, managers and doctors to incorporate…
The New NHS: What Can We Learn From Managed Care in New Zealand and the US?
1 July 1999
• The integration of health care is the defining theme of policy developments in the UK, US and New Zealand. The common element between the three…
Organisational Costs in the New NHS
1 April 1999
There is widespread criticism of organisational costs in the NHS. ‘Reduce bureaucracy, release funds for patient care’ has become a popular slogan. This so-called ‘bureaucracy’ may,…
Disease Management, the NHS and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 March 1999
Forms of health care management exist that embody all the principles of disease management, but which are given a different label. In this report, we explore…