Ten years ago, Holm's highly influential paper "Goodbye to the simple solutions: the second phase of priority setting" was published [Holm S. Goodbye to the simple solutions: the second phase of priority setting in health care. British Medical Journal 1998;317:1000-7]. Whilst attending the 2nd...

Economics should provide the theory and solutions to help healthcare organizations make priority setting decisions. However, the impact of economics and health economic methods in particular on such decision-making is not clear. This presentation draws together research conducted in the England,...

Objectives To explore the views of dental decision-makers in Primary Care Organisations with regard to the management of NHS dental services, and to gauge participants' awareness of economics-based approaches including programme budgeting and marginal analysis, with which to potentially...