Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
The commercial case for investing in ALS
13 November 2025
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease with devastating clinical and economic consequences.
The value of cell and gene therapies to the UK economy
20 October 2025
Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are moving rapidly from specialist trials to routine care: more than thirty products are already licensed worldwide and over two thousand are in clinical development.
Turning around the NHS: Reflections on the 2025 OHE Annual Lecture
14 October 2025
In this year’s Annual Lecture, Prof Anita Charlesworth takes a closer look at the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, concluding that all is not lost for the NHS, but questions of coherence, capacity, and capability remain.
OHE’s submission to a parliamentary inquiry on UK drug shortages
6 October 2025
The following is an extract from OHE’s written submission to parliament focused on diversifying suppliers and recognising the value of treatment alternatives to mitigate this issue.
Environmental sustainability in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: The need for green
29 September 2025
This is the second in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the recently published 10 Year Plan measure up against some of the most pressing health concerns in the UK.
Around the World in HTAs: Saudi Arabia – Navigating the healthcare and HTA landscape
24 September 2025
The next stop in our around the world in HTAs adventure is Saudi Arabia. This blog breaks down how the Kingdom is reshaping access to new health technologies through regulatory reform, a formal HTA framework, and value-based care. It provides a comprehensive overview of the structural and regulatory reforms underway as part of Vision 2030, highlighting how these changes are reshaping the way new health technologies are evaluated, priced, and brought to market.
Prevention in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: Promise, limits, and the path forward
17 September 2025
This is the first in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the newly published 10 Year Plan measure up against some of the most pressing health concerns in the UK.
Around the world in HTAs: China – From fragmentation to function
2 September 2025
In this Insights series, Around the World in HTAs, we shed light on HTA around the world. In this edition Yawen Jiang, Meng Li and Claud Theakston take us to China.
OHE Annual Lecture 2025 | Ten years to turn it around: The economic reality of NHS reform
9 July 2025
With the new NHS 10-Year Plan now published, attention turns from ambition to action. How realistic is the roadmap? What will it take to deliver meaningful…