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Health Care Payment Approaches

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What Are the Practical Considerations for Outcome-Based Payment in the NHS?
Uncertainty can surround the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of a new medicine, making it difficult to agree on a medicine's price. One solution to avoid unduly delaying or restricting patients' access is to link the medicine's price to the outcomes it produces in a patient. Despite some barriers, outcome-based payment could offer a “win” for patients, the NHS, and industry.
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Dec 2, 2021
Office of Health Economics
Amanda Cole, Jon Sussex

Health Care Workforce

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More Could Be Spent on Recruiting and Training Cancer Staff if the NHS Is to Provide a World-Class Cancer Service
Cancer is a leading cause of death in the UK. Action is needed now to recruit and train more NHS staff in certain key cancer-related roles if NHS is to meet its ambitions for improving cancer services over the next 10 years.
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Dec 10, 2020
The RAND Blog
Jenny George
Breast Cancer

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Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too
Successes in the early treatment of breast cancer are to be celebrated. But those achievements need not limit the development of further and better treatment for patients. Understanding the disease's wider effects could help bring this about.
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Oct 22, 2019
The RAND Blog
Daniela Rodriguez-Rincon, Catriona Manville
Survey Research Methodology

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Points to Consider When Using Surveys of Cancer Patients
Patient surveys provide unique insights for improving cancer care quality and new opportunities for research. However, features of survey populations such as sampling and early mortality should be accounted for when analyzing the findings.
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Jul 19, 2016
Statistics Views
Catherine L. Saunders, Gary A. Abel
Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care

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Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology
CT lung cancer screening turns out to be like many new medical technologies: It improves health but is quite expensive. Moreover, it needs implementation that targets those most likely to benefit and provides them the care they need efficiently.
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Nov 18, 2014
The Health Care Blog
Emmett B. Keeler
Health Equity

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Understanding the Roots of Dramatic Black-White Cancer Disparities in the Nation's Capital
The burden of cancer is not experienced equally across the population: Nationwide, black Americans have higher rates of death from cancer than white Americans, and nowhere has this disparity been more apparent than in the nation's capital, writes Rebecca Anhang Price.
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Oct 22, 2012
Rebecca Anhang Price
Public Health

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Worth Its Weight in Gold?
In terms of healthcare use and chronic health conditions, obesity is comparable to aging 20 years, with the health of a 30 year old resembling that of a 50 year old, writes Roland Sturm.
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Apr 21, 2011
Public Service Review: European Union
Roland Sturm

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Software supply chain security has emerged as a leading risk because of the massively fragmented and decentralized nature of modern software development. Unlike other problems in cybersecurity, this is a discrete problem, where the data exist. Information required to map software dependents or dependencies is knowable because there exists a finite limit to the number of nodes and dependencies.

Sasha Romanosky

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: The Hill

Compared to White women, Black women are 3.7 times more likely to die and Asian women 1.8 times more likely to die during or within the 6 weeks after pregnancy.…[W]omen experiencing disadvantage (e.g. domestic abuse, mental health illness, substance abuse) [are] also at greater risk of death during or soon after pregnancy.

Lucy Hocking

Senior Analyst

Source: The RAND Blog

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Cancer

What Are the Practical Considerations for Outcome-Based Payment in the NHS?

More Could Be Spent on Recruiting and Training Cancer Staff if the NHS Is to Provide a World-Class Cancer Service

Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too

Points to Consider When Using Surveys of Cancer Patients

Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology

Understanding the Roots of Dramatic Black-White Cancer Disparities in the Nation's Capital

Worth Its Weight in Gold?

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