Tagged: health system

Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19 - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Mar 25, 2020 •

• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• health system,
• Hospitals,
• Pandemic

Associate Prof George Thomson, Louise Delany, Prof Nick Wilson While it is possible that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are sick – including many urgently hospitalised.1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 … Read More

The further future of healthcare - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Oct 23, 2018 •

• big pharma,
• foresight,
• future,
• health system,
• healthcare

Following on from my last post, the UK has just released its Future of healthcare policy paper. It’s essentially a fluffy digital health information policy. No timelines and no systems-level thinking (apart from IT systems). Just add digital and other technological bits, encourage innovation, and it’s sorted is the short version. I found it a dispiriting read. It … Read More

Compensating organ donors - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 01, 2016 •

• government,
• health system,
• insurance,
• Kidneys,
• live organ donors,
• Organ Donation,
• organ donors,
• organ transplants,
• transplants

It is illegal to pay organ donors for their gift. Economists can easily explain the consequences: at a price of zero, you have a big shortage. This is particularly the case for live donors, where donors face real personal costs, both in the transplant process and in recuperation. Chris Bishop’s bill, which passed Third Reading in the House yesterday, … Read More