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.
Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
1 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…
Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS
1 January 2012
This report is based on the deliberations of the OHE Commission on Competition that was assembled in early 2011 “to consider the circumstances where competition between…
Spotlight on OHE: Assessing Value and Balancing Needs in Health Care
15 December 2011
During the last quarter of 2011, OHE team members were involved in discussions and presentations in a range of forums, covering each of OHE’s three areas…
Antibacterials: Roundtable Addresses the Critical Issues
10 November 2011
Antibacterial drug resistance is a serious and growing worldwide problem that threatens our ability to cure traditionally treatable diseases and to successfully perform numerous surgical procedures…
New: Using Happiness to Value Health
9 November 2011
Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and also serves as…
Forecasting the UK Medicines Bill to 2014
7 November 2011
At the 13th Annual Conference of the Institute of Healthcare Management, Scotland, Jon Sussex discussed OHE’s model for projecting the UK NHS medicines bill to 2014…
Just Released: Health and the Use of Medicines in Wales
3 November 2011
In this report commissioned by the ABPI in Wales, OHE Consulting examines the use of medicines in primary care in Wales since 2000 compared to the…
The Effect of Pay on Job Satisfaction and Performance in the UK NHS
24 October 2011
For nearly a decade, the UK NHS has been using performance-related compensation to motivate health care professionals to perform their jobs well. Research demonstrates that the…
New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes
18 October 2011
A new discussion paper from the Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, reports first results from a programme of collaborative research by CHE, Nancy…