Challenges and opportunities in managing global health systems
Global health is one of the University’s priorities and managing the NHS as well as other health systems into the 21st century remains the greatest managerial challenge that healthcare professionals face. The Liverpool Health Economics (LHE) recognizes the challenges as well as the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration.
As part of the commitment, the LHE ran an impact workshop to raise and share the profile of health research projects within the Management School. A number of academics spoke about their projects and shared their expertise on healthcare issues such as operations management, value-based procurement, healthcare economy, modelling to address staff shortages, real-time surveillance for abnormal events and the development of strategic systems.
The LHE group exists to promote the best possible health outcomes with available resources through the evaluation of costs and benefits of healthcare interventions. This is achieved in collaboration with local and national health services, the pharmaceutical industry, and other organisations in order to inform and support healthcare decision-making.
The group was established as a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in health economics, modelling, statistics, health services research, and systematic reviews. The multi-disciplinary nature of the group allows an appropriate mix of skills to be applied to an array of healthcare questions. The group’s status as an independent academic unit with close links to NHS policy-makers and other academic groups ensures the credibility and influence of its work, both within the academic and health service communities.
As the LHE continues to evolve and expand, its future plans include the development of a modelling platform, collaboration on the use of health economics alongside clinical trials, research into end of life care, and the continued provision of health economics support to assist with local and national priority setting, and the expansion of an educational programme to develop health economics expertise.