Sustainability
Sustainable healthcare policies and practices can help reduce waste, minimize pollution, and foster a healthier population, but novel approaches and cross-cutting collaboration are needed to drive change.
Environmental sustainability in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: The need for green
29 September 2025
This is the second in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the recently 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…
Driving Green Change: Lessons from the 2024 Innovation Policy Prize
5 February 2025
Last week, the OHE Innovation Policy Prize was jointly awarded to Professor Andrew Briggs and Professor Thomas Pogge.
2024 Innovation Policy Prize Award Ceremony
1 January 2025
During this evening, we will award the £40,000 fund to the winners, Andrew Briggs and Thomas Pogge, who will present their solution to this year’s question:…
Green Healthcare: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
11 September 2024
The climate-health crisis is a growing global concern, and identifying the right starting points is crucial.
Green Healthcare: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
4 September 2024
This engaging webinar explored the pressing need for the healthcare sector to address its impact on climate change whilst balancing ever-growing financial constraints. This session examined…
Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?
1 February 2024
Discounting in economic evaluations presents challenges for therapies with high up-front costs and long-term benefits. We discuss how health economics can learn from debates occurring within environmental economics, where discounting poses similar challenges.