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.
Performance-Based Risk Sharing in Health Care: Current Status
17 April 2013
Performance-based risk sharing arrangements for prescription medicines and other treatments are attractive to payers because they promise to base what is paid for a treatment on…
Lunchtime Seminar: Capturing Preferences about Treatment at the End of Life
9 April 2013
OHE’s Koonal Shah is a co-investigator in research intended to define public preferences about allocating health care resources to patients who are at the end of…
OHE Develops New, Bottom-Up Model for Forecasting UK Medicines Expenditure
3 April 2013
Medicines account for less than 10% of total NHS expenditure in the UK. Because spending on medicines is easy to separate out, however, this sector continues…
The Economics of the Market for Medicines: 2013 Review
26 March 2013
OHE’s Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Economics at City University London. As part of his 2013 activities, he recently gave…
Using Competition with Care: Comment on the Revised Regulations for the NHS
19 March 2013
OHE’s Jon Sussex has studied and written extensively on competition in the NHS. He was a member of the OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS…
OHE This Week: BioWales 2013, UK Medicines Market and EQ-5D in Asia
18 March 2013
19 March: Jon Sussex will be at BioWales 2013 speaking on the health and wider economic benefits of life sciences research. 21 March: Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz will…
Does Free Personal Care for the Elderly Reduce Informal Caregiving?
25 February 2013
Debates about whether to increase state assistance to the elderly have included concerns that this could reduce the amount of care from such personal caregivers, producing…
New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context
7 February 2013
With Prof Patricia Danzon of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, OHE’s Adrian Towse and Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz have released an important working paper that addresses how…
New Pilot Study: Capturing Public Preferences about Health Care Priorities
16 January 2013
The proposals from the UK Department of Health (DH) for value based pricing (VBP) include a process whereby higher prices would be granted to medicines that…