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.

Profs Adrian Towse and Nancy Devlin
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Join OHE at ISPOR: MCDA, Risk Sharing and Value-Based Pricing

4 October 2011

Join OHE at ISPOR to discuss multiple criteria decision analysis, value based pricing, risk sharing, post-approval data collection and other key topics in HTA and health…

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OHE in the Spotlight: Summer 2011

22 September 2011

This is the first in a series of posts that will review OHE’s contributions to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research…

Operationalising Value Based Pricing
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New: Operationalising Value Based Pricing

11 August 2011

To date, the UK Government has not been specific about how VBP will be implemented, but has indicated that calculations of value will extend beyond the…

Ruth Puig-Piero
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Does Relative Effectiveness Vary Across Europe?

9 August 2011

At the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) conference in May 2011, OHE’s Ruth Puig Peiró discussed a recent OHE study that reviewed the available literature on…

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New: Achieving World Class Outcomes in Cancer Treatment

4 August 2011

OHE has just released the publication of the presentation given by Prof Mike Richards at OHE’s 16th Annual Lecture. National Clinical Director for Cancer and End…

The OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics
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New OHE Guide to UK Health Statistics

2 August 2011

Just released is the new OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics, which provides both reliable up-to-date statistics and a basic guide to finding…

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Join us for the 2011 Annual Lecture

19 July 2011

The 2011 OHE Annual Lecture — Cost per QALY in the U.S. and Britain: Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t? — will be…

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Measuring Value with Pharmacoeconomics

26 May 2011

In forthcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, experts in the field outline the evolution of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) through…

Is the Aim of Health Care Systems to Maximise QALYs?
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QALYs v. Other Criteria in NHS Decisions

17 May 2011

Just released is an OHE Research Paper that examines whether and how decisions about allocating resources for health care differ across the NHS and, particularly, in…