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.
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.
Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Health System Strengthening: A Platforms Perspective
1 February 2020
Health System Strengthening (HSS) is an important concept now widely discussed, but too often without sufficient structure or an adequate understanding of what actually is involved. The articles on which this seminar is based (Morton, Thomas and Smith, 2016; Smith and Yip, 2016) attempted to present more clearly just what health system strengthening might entail and whether that might be modelled.
What NHS Trusts Can Do to Reduce Waiting Times for Cancer Treatment
2 January 2020
The NHS Improvement Economics team is part of the Strategy Directorate in NHS Improvement. NHS Improvement aims to implement changes to help improve both quality and…
New OHE Research Funding: Improving Labour Productivity in Primary Care
17 December 2019
OHE has been awarded a 3-year research grant by the Health Foundation’s Efficiency Research Programme to define an accurate measure of labour productivity in primary care…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Closing the ‘Know-do’ Gap for Health Systems Reform at the Policy Level
5 September 2019
OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Rafael Bengoa and David Hunter, 14th October 2019. The seminar will discuss policy-level enablers and barriers for implementing large-scale health systems reforms.
Unrelieved Pain in Palliative Care in England
2 September 2019
Although the quality of palliative care in England and the wider UK is regarded as excellent, many patients receiving palliative care die in pain. This new…
Moving the Needle on Value – OHE Launches Research on US Value-Based Healthcare
10 June 2019
At the recent ISPOR Annual Conference, OHE’s Chief Executive, Professor Graham Cookson announced a new programme of work on Value 2.0: Assessing the Value of US…
The Value of International Volunteers’ Experience to the NHS
24 April 2019
A new paper by OHE and Health Education England on the value of international volunteers’ experience to the NHS has been published in Globalization and Heath.