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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.