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.
2010 Lecture: US Health Care Reform
27 May 2010
OHE’s 2010 Annual Lecture features Dr Alan Garber on the implications of the American health care reform law. Register to join us in London on 22…
Measuring Health Output, Productivity and Equity
20 April 2010
Why, whether and how to measure health outputs, productivity and equity in the UK was the focus of the OHE’s 15th Annual Lecture, given by Prof…
How Fair? Competition in the NHS
25 March 2010
Competition within the NHS for non-emergency hospital care no longer adjusts for non-discretionary costs unique to independent providers. Should it?
A Comparison of Alternative Variants of the Lead and Lag Time TTO
12 January 2010
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…
US Healthcare Reform: Monumental Health System Transformation or Fatally Flawed Compromise?
1 September 2010
The speaker for the OHE’s 17th Annual Lecture was Dr Alan Garber, Director both of Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and its Center for Primary…
Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their…
How Fair? Competition between Independent and NHS Providers to Supply Non-Emergency Hospital Care to NHS Patients in England
1 September 2009
Written while Labour Government policies still were in force, this Briefing clearly and thoroughly examines non-discretionary cost differences between public and independent providers that may have…
Compendium of Health Statistics
1 January 2009
The annual OHE Compendium of Health Statistics is the one-stop statistical information source on population and health trends in the UK, and the changing finances and…
NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
3 March 2008
OHE established a Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity. It’s overall conclusion was that the collection and use of outcomes measures in the NHS is both practical and essential.