Before a problem can be fixed, the right people have to be asked the right questions. Across Europe, many people postpone or give up on care they need simply because they cannot afford it, but the reasons lie deep inside…
By the time a new health technology reaches the market, most of the decisions that shape its price, its uptake and its fit with the health system have already been taken. Payers and policymakers are then left reacting to something…
A method for judging health technologies is only as good as the agreement of the people who would have to use it. Having designed such a method in the previous deliverable, FLASH put it in front of those who make…
Every year a small number of Europeans are treated in a country that is not their own. Some live near a border and simply find the nearest hospital on the other side of it. Some work in one country and…
The way family doctors are paid is rarely visible to patients, yet it quietly shapes the care they receive. A doctor paid a flat sum for each person on her list faces very different pressures from one paid for every…
Most people never wonder how their family doctor is paid, yet the answer shapes the care they receive. Across Europe, governments and insurers have spent the past two decades adding extra payments on top of salaries and standard capitation, rewarding…
Hospitals are not paid in one single way. Some receive a fixed sum for every patient treated, calculated according to the diagnosis; some receive a lump sum for each day the patient stays; others work within an annual budget agreed…
Every country tinkers with the way it pays its hospitals. One adds a bonus for treating hip fractures within forty eight hours, another docks payment when too many patients are readmitted, a third switches an entire specialty from a fixed…
Work Package 5 of the EU-funded project FLASH primarily deals with patient mobility within multi-level systems, e.g. between European member states. The respective partners within the project will pay particular focus to the barriers of cross-border care delivery, out of…
PRESS RELEASE N. 1 Verona, 14/02/2023 – The newly started project FLASH, funded by the European Union, had its official start on February 13th and 14th 2023 in Verona, hosted by the University of Verona. With a total investment of…