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.
Variations in Outcome and Costs in NHS Hospitals: Recent Report
6 February 2014
Using innnovative econometric techniques, this report explores whether and how hospital outcomes and resource use are related for four common procedures.
Contracting for Quality in the NHS: 20th Annual Lecture Publication
28 January 2014
The key to effective and lasting quality improvement is better, not more, regulation. Professor Alan Maynard, University of York, delivered the 20th OHE Annual Lecture five…
Contracting for Quality in the NHS
1 January 2014
This monograph, based on Professor Maynard’s remarks at the 20th OHE Annual Lecture, explores the critical issue of ensuring the quality of care in the NHS.…
Inconsistent Use of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
12 December 2013
This study finds an apparent mismatch in the decision making approaches of the SMC and the NHS Boards. OHE today released a Research Paper on the…
Updated: OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics
30 October 2013
This respected compilation contains data on demographics, expenditures, hospitals and workforce, and health services. For nearly 40 years the OHE has been a specialist provider of…
Published: OHE Study Projecting UK Medicines Expenditure
30 September 2013
This research varies from other analyses in using a product-level, rather than a macro, approach. PharmacoEconomics has just published OHE’s study projecting medicines expenditure in the…
Initial Findings from Research on an EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England
24 September 2013
Four papers presented at the EuroQol Plenary discussed preliminary findings. As reported earlier, OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of…
What Is the Role of Cost-Effectiveness Evidence in US Health Care?
31 July 2013
At an OHE seminar last week, Dr James Chambers of Tufts Medical School examined the role cost-effectiveness evidence plays in health care resource allocation in the…
Prof Maynard on Ensuring Quality in the NHS: Annual Lecture
18 July 2013
Following allegations of seriously substandard care, the Secretary of State for Health in England announced, in June 2010, that a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire…