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.
Measuring Value with Pharmacoeconomics
26 May 2011
In forthcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, experts in the field outline the evolution of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) through…
QALYs v. Other Criteria in NHS Decisions
17 May 2011
Just released is an OHE Research Paper that examines whether and how decisions about allocating resources for health care differ across the NHS and, particularly, in…
Valuing the National Clinical Assessment Service
1 April 2011
The UK’s National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) provides advice to NHS managers about handling performance issues involving doctors, pharmacists and dentists. This post summarises an OHE…
Value-Based Pricing: OHE Comments
23 March 2011
In December 2010, the UK Department of Health released a consultation document to elicit comments on ‘proposals for a new value-based system of pricing medicines which…
New OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS
14 February 2011
Competition in the NHS is viewed as if it must either be for everything the NHS provides to patients or for nothing. Neither extreme is likely…
Exploring Local NHS Decisions about Investment
4 February 2011
OHE is pleased to welcome Jamie Garside to the team. Jamie recently graduated with an MSc in health economics (with Distinction) from City University London.
Comparing Variants of Lead and Lag Time TTO
1 February 2011
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…
Economic Evidence and NHS Reforms in England
19 January 2011
OHE collaborated with the Centre for Health Economics of the University of York in hosting workshop for policy makers and their advisers on NHS reforms. Discussion…
The Effect of an Increase in the Rate of Payment on General Practitioner’s Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
1 November 2011
This paper investigates how the increased rate of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payments implemented on 1 April 2005 affects Scottish general practitioners’ (GPs) intrinsic, extrinsic…