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How much should we spend on the NHS? : issues and challenges arising from the Wanless review of future health care spending

Author:

King's Fund, Centre for Health Economics (University of York), and Office of Health Economics

Publication date:

2004

Abstract:

Derek Wanless' 2002 report on the future course of NHS spending was immensely important. Not only did it directly inform the Chancellor's spending plans for the NHS for the next five years - which gave the NHS an unprecedented real increase of over 40 per cent by 2007/8 - but ...
Cost-effectiveness thresholds : economic and ethical issues

Author:

King's Fund and Office of Health Economics

Publication date:

2002

Abstract:

Organisations such as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence seek to assess the value for money of new health care technologies. Assessment commonly requires the use of thresholds or benchmark levels of cost effectiveness. Key issues that consequently need to be resolved include: the basis on which thresholds should be ...