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.
Competition in the NHS: Proceed with Care
16 October 2012
The role of competition in the NHS is again in the news. Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of both the NHS in England and the NHS…
Spotlight on OHE: Recent Awards, Publications and Presentations
12 September 2012
This post reviews selected external OHE activities and publications from the past three months.
OHE Conference on the Future of Drug Development – Register Now
5 September 2012
What will drug development look like in 10 years’ time? How will regulatory policies and the global political and social environment shape it? How might policy…
OHE’s 50th Celebration: Publications on Tuberculosis Show Constancy and Change
23 August 2012
Between 1962 and 1998, OHE published more than 100 booklets on various diseases and conditions as part of a series on “current health problems”. The first…
OHE Awarded £457K Grant on Measuring Public Preferences for Health States
2 August 2012
OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of Sheffield have been awarded a £457,000 grant from the Policy Research Programme (PRP)…
Spotlight on OHE: Development and Use of Measures of Health Worldwide
16 July 2012
OHE team members have been active in a number of external seminars, conferences and workshops. These included gatherings of academic experts, discussions involving governments, and meetings…
OHE Models Future UK Medicines Spending for the ABPI
3 July 2012
The Office of Health Economics has developed and run a model for the ABPI to project UK NHS expenditure on medicines. On 2 July, the ABPI…
The Tougher the Better: The Effect of GP Performance Thresholds in Scotland
20 April 2012
General Practitioners (GPs) in the NHS are paid based on a mix of factors, including a pay-for-performance element, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which was…
New: Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMS Programme
16 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome…