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.
The changing role of the NHS over time
14 August 2023
OHE has been producing reports since 1962 which give insights into issues facing the NHS in the 75 years since it was created. The first part…
Can a continued focus on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment see the NHS to another 75 years?
27 July 2023
We have delved into the OHE archives to reflect on past NHS successes. In part one of a two-part Insight series, we look at three major contributors to shorter life expectancies – tuberculosis, heart disease, and cancer.
A Prescription for Green Healthcare Delivery: Insights from an Expert Sustainability Webinar
19 July 2023
OHE delivered a webinar on pharmaceutical sustainability, supported by ABPI, bringing together leading experts and professionals from government, healthcare, and industry. This webinar builds on a recently published OHE report on sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry.
Caring about Carers: Improving Consideration of the Burden of Informal Caring in HTA
11 April 2023
Through a three-part webinar series, commissioned and funded by Roche, OHE has explored the burdens on informal carers when providing unpaid care for loved ones.
Improving the Measurement of Valued Output in Primary Care in England
1 August 2022
How can we identify efficiency variations across general practices and opportunities to improve their productivity if the measurement of output does not reflect the value produced?
Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18 July 2022
A recent series of papers examines the effects of multiple primary health care interventions (introduction of health facility accreditation, introduction of user fees, and discontinuation of performance-based financing schemes) under Egypt’s Health Sector Reform Program between 2000 and 2014.
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients.
12 May 2022
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients. In economics, we have a pretty complicated name…
Invest to End TB. Save Lives. World TB Day 2022. Reflections on 60 years of OHE publications on TB
24 March 2022
Global TB deaths are increasing. CGD and OHE set out a “Market-Driven, Value-Based, Advance Commitment (MVAC)” that would create and guarantee a market for a breakthrough…
No Smoking Day 2022: Reflecting on OHE Projections from 1994
9 March 2022
Since 1984, the UK’s second Wednesday of each March is NO SMOKING DAY (NSD). The NSD aims to encourage smokers who want to quit. In 2022,…