The group was lots of fun, the quality of papers and discussions keeps increasing and we have academics from all over joining. My wish is to have more Croatians (possibly doctoral students and ECRs) involved. So, if you know someone, spread the word!

Stay tuned for the next edition!

🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).

Do we spend more on hospital care in the north of England because of higher needs or higher availability? In our new paper, we took a look....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New paper alert 📣

Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.

Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social.

@manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social

Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost.

New in PharmacoEconomics - self-declaration misses 1 in 6 of unpaid carers compared to time diaries & may underestimate mental health impacts. Method matters when identifying informal carers!

Authored by: Sean Urwin, Charles Smith & @mattxsutton.bsky.social

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Our report on the UK labour market for health economists is now out

hesg.org.uk/download/emp...

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

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Tourists canceling trips to the US.

🥳🍾Congratulations to Eli Chavarria Pino who passed her viva today with minor corrections!!🎉🙌

Eli's thesis was titled: "Evaluating the effect of public health spending in low-income settings." She was supervised by: Laura Anselmi and @mattxsutton.bsky.social and funded by @nwssdtp.bsky.social

New paper: "Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study" by PhD student T Zhao, supervised by Rachel Meacock and @mattxsutton.bsky.social

Read it here 👇
bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wonderful news! Congratulations Judit!!

Here’s the chart that really nudged me to write this.

The headcount of GP partners aged under 40 has fallen by 53% since 2015.

Overall partner headcount down from 68% ➡️ 48% in same time.

Current policy = ‘let it wither on the vine’. I’m not sure that’s right…..

It was 50 years ago that this groundbreaking paper by Hal Luft was published in REStat.
www.jstor.org/stable/1937862

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

One striking thing about NHS Continuing Healthcare (which is only subject to a needs test, and not a financial means test) is the variation across areas -- despite a national framework. In Q1 2024/25, 9% of applicants in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were found eligible. In Dorset, it was 34%.