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.
Managed Care – A Model for the UK?
3 January 1998
This paper examines the potential for managed care techniques to develop in the UK National Health Service. It begins with a review of managed care approaches…
Accountable Health Care: Is it compatible with social solidarity?
1 February 1998
If a dart were thrown at a map of the world and one identified the national capital nearest the dart, the following would be a safe…
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
I am greatly flattered to be invited to deliver the 1998 annual lecture of the Office of Health Economics, partly on account of my distinguished predecessors,…
Health Financing and Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
12 January 1997
The objective of this report is to provide an assessment of the reform process of the health care sector in the Countries of Central and Eastern…
Theory and Evidence on Cost Sharing in Health Care: An Economic Perspective
1 December 1997
Faced with the growing pressures on health care budgets, policy makers around the world have turned to different forms of direct charging for health services. However,…
Drivers of the Growth in Medicines Expenditure
1 October 1997
Increases in expenditure on medicines, above the level of increases in health care expenditure generally, are a feature of all Western health systems, including the UK’s.…
Prescribing, Budgets and Fundholding in General Practice
10 January 1997
In April 1991, a radical programme of public health care reform was introduced by the Conservative Government. The avowed intention of the programme was to improve…
NHS Waiting Lists: Towards the Elusive Solution
1 August 1997
Much has been written over the last 40 years bemoaning the state of NHS waiting lists. Contributions to this literature have come from diverse fields; from…
The Doctor’s (Ethical and Economic) Dilemma
1 August 1996
In this OHE lecture Professor Sackett sets out a compelling case for evidence-based medicine to be at the core of a comprehensive, tax-funded NHS that enjoys…