Deputy Director - Jon Sussex MA MSc
Jon joined the OHE in 1997 as its Associate Director, his areas of expertise include efficiency and incentives in the NHS, the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, health care expenditure and the role of the private sector in the NHS (including the Private Finance Initiative).
Before joining the OHE he worked for Deloitte & Touche Consulting and SDC Consulting as a management consultant specialising in health care and regulatory economics where his projects included retail pharmacy, OTC medicines, nurse prescribing, strategic planning and major capital project work for numerous NHS organisations. Prior to that he worked as an economist at the Department of Energy, on industry regulation and policy issues for the UK's utility services before becoming the Economic Adviser on Health and Personal Social Services at HM Treasury. Here, he was a member of the small team reviewing the NHS prior to the publication of the 1989 White Paper Working for Patients.
Jon is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York Department of Economics and Related Studies.
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Selected Journal Articles & Working Papers
Publications:
Buxton M, S Hanney, S Morris, L Sundmacher, M Garau, J Mestre-Ferrandiz, J Sussex, J Grant, S Ismail, E Nason, S Wooding and S Kapur (2008) Medical Research: What’s it Worth? Report for the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Academy of Medical Sciences, November 2008.
Sussex J and S Sosa-Rubi (2005) "Paying for capital" in AS Preker and JC Langenbrunner (eds.) Spending Wisely – Buying Health Services for the Poor, Washington DC: The World Bank.
Sussex J (2003) "Public-private partnerships in hospital development: lessons from the UK’s ‘Private Finance Initiative’" Research in Healthcare Financial Management 8(1).
Sussex J (2003) "Private provision of publicly funded hospital care: the story so far," in Private Hospital Healthcare Europe 2003, London: Campden Publishing Ltd, January 2003.
Goddard M and J Sussex (2002) "Long-term aims and short-term realities: the impact of the NHS/private sector concordat", Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 1(4):165-169.
Sussex J (2002) "The NHS and PFI," in T Neville (ed.) PFI: Practical Perspectives, London: ACCA, April 2002.
