Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
Bengt Jönsson Honoured for Contribution to Health Economics
6 August 2014
Launched at a seminar in his honour May 2014, Portrait of a Health Economist: Essays by Colleagues and Friends of Bengt Jönsson is an impressive collection…
Spotlight on OHE: Competition in the NHS, HESG, Publications
17 July 2014
Jon Sussex was a keynote speaker at the Capita conference on competition in health care held in June, where the audience was primarily from the NHS.…
OHE Consulting Report on the Trajectory of Dementia in the UK
19 June 2014
Alzheimer’s Research UK commissioned OHE Consulting to model the growing prevalence and costs of dementia in the UK and the impact that new treatments could have…
Spotlight on OHE: NICE, Biosimilars, HTA
17 June 2014
OHE’s active involvement in a number of recent conferences and meetings has contributed to discussions on a range of important issue in health economics.
Implementing NICE Decisions in Wales: Opportunity Costs
10 June 2014
Just out is a new Research Paper from OHE that examines how local NHS organisations in Wales adjust spending to accommodate ‘shocks’ such as new NICE…
2014 Annual Lecture: Is Universal Health Care Coverage the Holy Grail?
7 May 2014
Join us on the evening of 9 June 2014 when OHE will welcome Professor Anne Mills of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who…
Use of Cost-effectiveness Evidence in US Health Care: Seminar Briefing
1 April 2014
Just published by OHE, this Seminar Briefing summarises remarks at an OHE Lunchtime Seminar by Dr James Chambers of the Center for the Evaluation of Value…
Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland
4 March 2014
Whether and how a change in performance-related payment motivated change in GP behaviour in Scotland is investigated in a recent article by OHE’s Yan Feng and…
Pricing Variations Within and Across Countries: Gauging Efficiency
25 February 2014
This research explores which approaches to pricing can produce the greatest efficiency and access to medicines within and across countries. OHE collaborated on two articles published…