LSE Health and NHS Confederation Seminar Series 2010
‘A view from Europe: Transferring Health Policy Knowledge from Europe to
the English Context’
The series aims to improve the transfer of practical, highly relevant health policy experience from
Europe and abroad to health policy organisations in England.
25 May
Hospital financing
*How have European countries been experimenting with new ways of
organising and financing the hospital sector and what lessons can be
learnt from these in the NHS context?
Wilm Quentin (Technische Universität Berlin)
Wilm Quentin is a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Care Management at
Technische Universität Berlin. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow in the Health
Economics Unit at the University of Leipzig. He has written on health care costs and
financial options, including studies on dementia and HIV/AIDS, as well as on tobacco
control. He holds an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine
and trained as a physician at the Universities of Würzburg, Munich, Leipzig, and
Marburg,
Siok Swan Tan (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Siok Swan Tan graduated from Business Administration and Health, Policy &
Management at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in 2002. She worked on
several healthcare-related research projects before joining the institute
for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus MC University Medical Center,
as a health economist in 2006. Last November, she defended her
dissertation entitled 'Microcosting in economic evaluations: issues of
accuracy, feasibility, consistency and generalisability'. Current research
topics include the DBC casemix system, the development of reliable costing
methodologies and the establishment of reference unit prices.
Unto Häkkinen (CHESS, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland)
Unto Häkkinen is Research Professor in National Institute for Health and Welfare
(THL) in Finland. He is director (head of unit) of the Centre for Health and Social
Economics (at THL) and he has been e.g. visiting Professor at the Department of
Public Health Sciences (University of Alberta) and visiting Fellow at the Institute of
Pharmaco-Economics (Edmonton). During 2006-2007 he undertook consultancy
work for the OECD in relation to proposals for future OECD work on measuring
efficiency in the health care sector. He has been a Finnish co-ordinator in many
international comparisons and now he is a project director in EuroHOPE (European
Health Care Outcomes, Performance and Efficiency) -project funded by European
Commission.
His academic and applied research has mainly focused on health economics and
topics related to it and covers topics such as: cost, financing and outcome of health
services, equity in health and health care, demand and utilisation of health care,
payment systems in health care, health care reforms, allocation of health care
resources, regional variation of health care, hospital productivity, care of the elderly
and register-based analyses of costs and outcomes in health care.