UK-based researchers are top of the league in the European Research Council’s (ERC) latest round of mid-career consolidator grants. 58 researchers working in UK institutions will each receive up to €2 million (£1.7m) to set up their own teams and pursue ground-breaking ideas. Germany is in second place with 48 successful applicants. The funding has been […]
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Ensuring global access to proven interventions – including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, as well as prioritising the development of new health technologies – requires an assessment of whether the improvement in health outcomes they offer exceeds the improvement in health that would have been possible if the resources required had, instead, been made available for
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The European Commission’s Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health has just been renewed for three more years, running until May 2019. The aim of the Panel is to provide the Commission with independent advice from a variety of sectors to support modern, responsive and sustainable health systems. The Panel’s new members cover
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A new WHO report provides insight into how countries in the WHO European Region can improve access and reduce medicine prices through strategic and well-planned procurement processes. It also addresses collaboration within and across countries to improve availability of affordable medicines for patients in the Region. Countries in the Region have varying capacity and negotiating
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21-23 September 2017, Venice, Italy The European Pathway Association is organising an International Master Class on Care Pathways and the Organisation of Care Processes. This two day event will focus less on pathway basics (unlike previous master classes), but will make the link with other relevant and current topics (Triple Aim, Pathways for health, Value
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There are two new reports from the OECD in the ‘Health at a Glance’ series: Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 which is the fourth edition looking at health in the EU and presents key indicators of health and health systems in the 28 EU countries, 5 candidate countries to the EU and 3 EFTA
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Fifty-nine UK-based researchers are to receive up to €1.5 million (£1.3m) each to set up their own research teams and pursue ground-breaking ideas under the EU’s European Research Council (ERC) latest round of starting grants. These grants come from the ‘excellent science’ pillar of Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme. The UK is
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A summer school on pharmaceutical pricing – the first of its kind – helped train high-level civil servants in the WHO European Region responsible for shaping and implementing policies on pricing medicines. The Austrian Health Institute organized the five-day course, which ran from the 29th August to 2nd September, and 36 participants from 20 countries
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Across OECD countries, pharmaceutical spending was around US$800 billion in 2013, accounting for about 20{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} of total health spending on average (hospital consumption and retail). This paper ‘Pharmaceutical expenditure and policies: past trends and future challenges‘ examines the drivers of recent spending trends, highlighting differences across therapeutic classes. While the consumption of medicines continues to
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The online database ‘OECD health statistics 2016‘ has been released and offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems. It includes data on biotechnology, cancer, health care,
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