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.

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Forecasting the UK Medicines Bill to 2014

7 November 2011

At the 13th Annual Conference of the Institute of Healthcare Management, Scotland, Jon Sussex discussed OHE’s model for projecting the UK NHS medicines bill to 2014…

Health and the Use of Medicines in Primary Care in Wales
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Just Released: Health and the Use of Medicines in Wales

3 November 2011

In this report commissioned by the ABPI in Wales, OHE Consulting examines the use of medicines in primary care in Wales since 2000 compared to the…

Yan Feng
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The Effect of Pay on Job Satisfaction and Performance in the UK NHS

24 October 2011

For nearly a decade, the UK NHS has been using performance-related compensation to motivate health care professionals to perform their jobs well. Research demonstrates that the…

Nurse and patient
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New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes

18 October 2011

A new discussion paper from the Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, reports first results from a programme of collaborative research by CHE, Nancy…

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Spotlight on OHE: Measuring Preferences, HTA Benchmarking, Value-Based Pricing, and Rationing

13 October 2011

This post reviews OHE’s activities in September 2011 that contributed to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research areas: financing and delivery…

Koonal Shah
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Valuing Health at the End of Life: Public Preferences

13 October 2011

In 2009, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice that its Appraisal Committees are to consider when assessing treatments that…

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Join OHE at ISPOR: MCDA, Risk Sharing and Value-Based Pricing

4 October 2011

Join OHE at ISPOR to discuss multiple criteria decision analysis, value based pricing, risk sharing, post-approval data collection and other key topics in HTA and health…

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OHE in the Spotlight: Summer 2011

22 September 2011

This is the first in a series of posts that will review OHE’s contributions to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research…

Operationalising Value Based Pricing
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New: Operationalising Value Based Pricing

11 August 2011

To date, the UK Government has not been specific about how VBP will be implemented, but has indicated that calculations of value will extend beyond the…