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.
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients.
12 May 2022
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients. In economics, we have a pretty complicated name…
Invest to End TB. Save Lives. World TB Day 2022. Reflections on 60 years of OHE publications on TB
24 March 2022
Global TB deaths are increasing. CGD and OHE set out a “Market-Driven, Value-Based, Advance Commitment (MVAC)” that would create and guarantee a market for a breakthrough…
Towards a New Understanding of Unmet Medical Need
22 June 2021
In a commentary piece recently published in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, OHE authors discuss how the misalignment in interpretations of the term ‘unmet medical…
Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
Why is the measurement of efficiency in health care so important, but equally challenging? And why is it especially so in primary care? This blog provides…
Making Outcome-Based Payment a Reality in the NHS. Phase Two: Practical Considerations
1 December 2021
Outcome-based payment (OBP) is a flexible payment mechanism linking the price the NHS pays for a medicine to the outcomes it achieves in practice for NHS…
OHE at HESG Winter 2021
11 January 2021
Members from the team at OHE attended the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Winter 2021 Meeting, hosted online by the Centre for Health Economics in London,…
After the Transplant: Potential Benefits for the NHS and UK Kidney Transplant Patients
1 November 2021
Around 10% of people in the United Kingdom (UK) have chronic kidney disease (CKD) according to Kidney Care UK. While CKD can be managed through diet and…
Resource Allocation in Public Sector Programmes: Does the Value of a Life Differ Between Governmental Departments?
1 February 2021
This research paper examines whether value of a life estimates used in economic evaluation differs between government departments in a selection of developed countries. The authors find that generally estimates used in transport and the environment exceeded those used in health, which suggests that health may be undervalued by departments of health compared to departments of transport or environment.
Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Healthcare
6 October 2020
Case studies explored more and less successful practices when delivering healthcare across four priority areas (screening, disease management and standardised patient pathways, rational use of medicines and healthcare associated infections). Results were used to simulate cost-savings and patient outcomes.