Audio-visual resources for Health Economics

Welcome to the AV resource page.

We are planning a series of short interviews with leading UK health economists about their work. These videos can be shown either as part of a lecture or class, or provided to students to view as part of their personal studies. The Economics Network has some general advice on finding audio-visual materials.

NICE Job? Reflections on the Contribution of Economic Evaluation to Healthcare Decision-making

This was a public lecture given January 30th 2008 by Prof. Michael Drummond, with a response by Prof. David Parkin. Video is available to watch online or download.

Podcasts on health economics topics

A series of interviews on public sector issues by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at Bristol University, includes the following on health economics topics:

Carol Propper: Targets and Terror

Waiting times have been a central concern in the English NHS, where care is provided free at the point of delivery and is rationed by waiting time. Pro-market reforms introduced in the NHS in the 1990s were not accompanied by large drops in waiting times. As a result, the English government in 2000 adopted the use of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with publication of waiting times data at hospital level and strong sanctions for poor performing hospital managers. This regime has been dubbed 'targets and terror'.

Carol Propper: Hospital care in England - who will choose?

Across England, patients are beginning to use the new 'choose and book' system to select the location of their hospital care. But will the affluent be more likely to exercise choice than people from more deprived areas?

Carol Propper: Regulating health care in the world of choice

Recent health care reforms are paving the way for greater competition between providers of health care, both within and outside the NHS - which the government believes will promote greater responsiveness of hospitals to patients' needs, cut waiting lists and reduce equity in the receipt of health care. But as Professor Carol Propper points out, the evidence to support these claims is by no means unequivocal. 'The devil is in the detail', she argues: the impact of competition in health care markets depends on the precise nature of the policies introduced and the interaction between them.

Listing of copright recorded materials.

Copyright prevents us from reproducing here videos of TV documentaries on health economics topics. However, a number of us do hold copies of material of this sort, and may be willing to lend it on request - or you may be able to request your own copy from the original source. Below is a list/brief outline of each.

• "The Oregon Experiment" BBC documentary dating from the 1990s. Good overview of Oregon's prioritisation process. - copy held by Nancy Devlin, OHE.

• "The Price of Sight" NZBC documentary dating from the late 1990s. Fascinating insight into alleged anti-competitive practices by ophthalmologists under NZ's quasi-market health care system. - copy held by Nancy Devlin, OHE.

If you are based at a subscribing institution, you can benefit from the British Universities Film & Video Council's off-air television recording backup service. You can use the site to order CDs, DVDs or video of a programme from BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five, going back to 1998.

Another service for UK academics is Film & Sound Online, which brings together several collections that are free for educational use, organised by academic subject.

Available Online

Ernest Madu, Heart Institute of the Caribbean: "Bringing world-class health care to the poorest" (17 mins) available on TED.com to view online or download.

BBC Panorama, "The NHS Blame Game" broadcast 26 March 2006. Transcript and RealVideo available on the BBC site.