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.

Event

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…

Event

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…

Insights

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.

News

OHE statement on 2025 Spending Review

11 June 2025

Professor Graham Cookson responds to Chancellor’s Spending Review announcement boosting NHS spend by 3%.

Insights

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…

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Publication

Altering the trajectory of HIV in Europe

22 May 2025

Despite substantial medical advancements that have transformed HIV into a manageable chronic condition for individuals, the epidemic remains a pressing public health concern in Europe.

Insights

OHE submission to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on an Ageing Society

20 May 2025

OHE’s written submission to parliament focused on raising population health in older age and increasing access to fertility treatments as two possible avenues to address the challenges of demographic change.

Publication

Analysing Global Immunisation Expenditure

15 April 2025

Immunisation programmes are foundational to public health. Organised by health authorities, they systematically deliver vaccines to susceptible populations to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

Insights

Infectious disease: another reason to try Veganuary for the NHS

30 January 2025

We dust off last year’s model to consider the potential savings to the NHS from more people going vegan, with a focus on COVID-19.