Interview: Julian Le Grand - 21st June 2011 (ThirdSector)
"The man tasked with making the mutuals work believes labour-intensive services will be most suited to control by staff" Read more
LSE Research Assistant recalls her time as a Rwandan government insider
June 2011 (Africa at LSE) Read more
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa need to tackle chronic disease burden
June 2011 (BMJ)
Coverage of the event Africa's disease burden: what matters most? Read more
Joan Costa-Font and Jose-Luis Fernandez have edited a special edition of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, titled "The Economics of Ageing".
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The new Health System in Transition (HiT) report on England shows that doubling expenditure on the NHS between 1997 and 2010 had a mixed impact on health system performance.
CSI Health Seminar: Tuesday 15th March 2011
Health incentives and equity: Empirical findings and conceptual issues

2010

'Reproductive Morbidity and Poverty' seminar presentations now available to download (as part of the Centre for Global Health Population Poverty and Policy seminar series in November 2010)
Julian Le Grand interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about plans for local councils to assume responsibility for public health - 30th November 2010
Experts query GP comissioning plans Professor Julian Le Grand comments on the reforms - 16th November 2010 (Public Finance Magazine)
EU: Costs And Benefits of Maternity and Paternity Leave Konstantina Davaki, LSE Health, discusses her views at the workshop held by the EP Women's Right Committee and Employment Committee - 7th October 2010 (eGov monitor)
Implementation and adoption of nationwide electronic health records LSE Health staff are among authors of a paper reporting interim findings from a large scale qualitative study of the problematic implementation of the NHS Care Record Service in England - September 2010 (BMJ)
Now It's Britain's Turn for a Health Care Reform Battle Professor Julian Le Grand comments on the health care reform debate - 29th September 2010 (Politics Daily)
The Case for End-of-Life Care Gets Stronger article by Zack Cooper, Health Economist, LSE Health - 24th August 2010 (The Huffington Post)
Learning from Health Care Reform Abroad - More Lessons from the British National Health Service blog post from Zack Cooper, Health Economics, LSE Health - 3rd August 2010 (Altarum Institute Blog)
Can user charges make health care more efficient? Sarah Thomson, Thomas Foubister and Elias Mossialos explain why charging patients for health services we want them to use makes little economic sense - 18th August 2010 (BMJ)
GPs and the future of the NHS Professor Julian Le Grand claims that giving GPs greater commissioning powers lead to reduced hospital referrals, reduced emergency care, improved co-ordination of services and some innovative patterns of care - 10th July 2010 (Guardian pg 31)
Professor Julian Le Grand interviewed on shake-up of NHS funding - 9th July 2010 (BBC Radio 4)
Difficulties of tracing health research funded by the European Union - July 2010 (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy)
Larger Waistlines and a Bulging Welfare State Professor Julian Le Grand comments on the Social Trends report by the Office for National Statistics - 3rd July 2010 (Guardian pg 7)
The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Rural Communities in East Africa: A Twenty Year Perspective Janet Seeley, University of East Anglia, Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford and Tony Barnett, London School of Economics - March 2010 (Tropical Medicine and International Health)
DFID systematic review by LSE Health and Social Care team - June 2010
Seminar on Reproductive health and morbidity - 6th November 2010 Call for Papers, 31 July 2010 Download Flyer
Stoking the antibiotic pipeline Chantal Morel and Elias Mossialos show how financial incentives might be used to persuade drug companies to develop new antibiotics to tackle multidrug resistant bacteria May 2010 (BMJ)
LSE Health receives an ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research - 25th March 2010
Queen's Anniversary Prizes - 18th February 2010 (The Times)
LSE Health to establish and maintain the new CHRE International Observatory on the Regulation of Health Professionals - 14th January 2010

2009

LSE Health and Social Care wins a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009 - 18th November 2009
LSE Health receives a 'Rising Powers' award from the ESRC - November 2009
Report on The Role of Funding and Policies on Innovation in Cancer Drug Development - September 2009
Europe's Knowledge Broker Tessa Richards, assistant editor of the BMJ, looks at the work of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - 26th September 2009 (British Medical Journal)
Constructive dialogue on incentives for developing new antibiotics - September 2009 (Swedish Presidency of the European Union website - website no longer active)
New antibiotics desperately needed as penicillin becomes obsolete - 18th September 2009 (FINCHANNEL.COM - Global News Channel)
A Looming Drug Crisis: The Dearth of New Antibiotics - 1st October 2009 (Time Magazine)
New research warns penicillin 'becoming obsolete' - 1st October 2009 (CNN.com)
Policies and Incentives for Promoting Innovation in Antibiotic Research lead by Professor Elias Mossialos, LSE Health - 17th September 2009
Professor Elias Mossialos awarded €4.5 million research grant
Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
The QQuIP team receives the Excellence in Commissioning Regional Award - 9th July 2009
LSE-EC final report on private health insurance - July 2009
Report on Electronic prescribing in hospitals - Challenges and lessons learned - 1st June 2009
Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility: understanding population trends and processes Ernestina Coast, Dylan Kneale and John Stilwell (eds.) - May 2009 (Springer)
LSE Health has been successful in being awarded a 'Rising Powers, Global Challenges and Social Change' programme Network award from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Professor Elias Mossialos awarded €4.5 million research grant
The European Commission's Research Directorate has awarded Professor Elias Mossialos, director of LSE Health, a €4.5 million research grant to develop methodologies and indicators for assessing health system efficiency and quality. This represents the second largest research grant ever awarded to LSE by the Commission and the largest so far from the Framework Programme 7
Couples with children outside wedlock 'should be married by the State'
Comments from Professor Julian Le Grand, the architect of a clutch of New Labour policies such as baby bonds, calls for marriage to be the legal "default" setting for new parents - 1st May 2009 (Daily Telegraphy)
Dr Adam Oliver, LSE Health, has been awarded £187,221 from the Wellcome Trust for the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health
"NHS can't afford to keep on saving lives" Professor Julian Le Grand suggests that there should be a "consistent rule that says what will be funded and what won't . It shouldn't be a question of who shouts the loudest" - 13th April 2009 (Sunday Herald)
Bribery - the key to better public health Obese patients in Kent are being paid up to £425 to lose weight by the NHS in a trial to test whether financial incentives can be used to change unhealthy behaviour... Paying people to change their habits works because it offers immediate rewards for behaviour that will only provide a health benefit in years ahead. The approach was recommended last month in a report by Health England, a government advisory group chaired by former No. 10 health adviser, Professor Julian Le Grand - 10th April 2009 (The Independent)
Britain's Homecare Scandal: Care of the elderly is a professional job. Assisting medication, feeding, changing, bathing, even using hoists demands a level of expertise we expect in the care of some of our most vulnerable people. Research from the London School of Economics, commissioned by Panorama, found that 70% of home care is provided by the independent sector today and is worth £1.5 billion - 9th April 2009 (BBC)