Posted on 1 April 2010
Luigi Siciliani and Hugh Gravelle have been awarded a prize for the best submission published in the journal Health Economics during 2008 and 2009. βIs waiting time prioritisation welfare improving?β (2008: 17(2):167-184)) was judged to have addressed an issue that is of substantive importance in health policy β whether to prioritise patients on a waiting list β and does so using a systematic and rigorous application of economic analysis.