Prevention
It is globally acknowledged that prevention is better than cure and yet most health systems spend less than 1% of their budgets on preventative approaches. A preventative approach can help reduce healthcare costs, improve patient outcomes, and decrease the burden on healthcare systems.
Turning around the NHS: Reflections on the 2025 OHE Annual Lecture
14 October 2025
In this year’s Annual Lecture, Prof Anita Charlesworth takes a closer look at the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, concluding that all is not lost for the NHS, but questions of coherence, capacity, and capability remain.
New OHE model estimates COVID-19 could be associated with costs of £7 billion a year in the UK, without annual autumn vaccinations
13 October 2025
A newly released report commissioned by Moderna modelled a one-year scenario without annual COVID-19 autumn vaccinations.
Prevention in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: Promise, limits, and the path forward
17 September 2025
This is the first in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the newly published 10 Year Plan measure up against some of the most pressing health concerns in the UK.
Climate action is health action: OHE’s focus on sustainability
22 July 2025
At the intersection of health and the climate is an urgent crisis. This crisis affects health in ways that are wide-ranging, unevenly distributed, and difficult to isolate. It poses deep challenges not only for service delivery but for how we define value, whose preferences we measure, and how we account for intergenerational and regional equity.
OHE Annual Lecture 2025 | Ten years to turn it around: The economic reality of NHS reform
9 July 2025
With the new NHS 10-Year Plan now published, attention turns from ambition to action. How realistic is the roadmap? What will it take to deliver meaningful…
Valuing health in an era of climate crisis: informing policy through economic evidence
18 June 2025
This panel brings together leading researchers to explore how health economics can inform policy design in the context of the climate crisis. Rather than proposing new…
Reflections from the Region: Healthcare transformation in the Middle East
18 June 2025
It’s not often that you witness a health system reinvent itself in real-time. And yet, this is precisely what is happening across the Middle East.
OHE statement on 2025 Spending Review
11 June 2025
Professor Graham Cookson responds to Chancellor’s Spending Review announcement boosting NHS spend by 3%.
Prevention pays off – so why aren’t we doing more of it?
5 June 2025
We know that immunisation pays off: the wider societal benefits of childhood immunisation programmes in low and middle income countries outweigh their costs up to 51 times while…