CHE academics present research at EuHEA Conference 2026

Posted on Thursday 3 September 2026

Hosted by the Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam (EsCHER), the conference brought together health economists from across Europe and around the world to share research, explore new methodologies and discuss key challenges facing the field.

CHE academics contributed to the conference with presentations spanning a wide range of topics, including health technology assessment, healthcare utilisation and inequalities, hospital capacity and productivity, health and social care, and economic evaluation.

The following papers were presented by CHE academics:

• Pharmacies driven Healthcare Fragmentation: Implications for Utilization, Financial Protection, and Equity by Adriana Castelli
• Physician Mobility and Primary Care: The Effects of Legalizing Multi-site Practice in China by Xiaotong Li
• Does Increasing Hospital Capacity Improve Health Outcomes? Evidence from South Korea by Jinhyun Kim
• Does Hospital Ownership Affect Length of Stay in England? A Two-part Model Approach by Santiago Palacio Ciro, Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey
• An economics perspective on the use and meaning of cost estimates in health and social care by Martin Chalkley, Sebastian Hinde, Adriana Castelli, Helen Weatherly
• The Proof of the Intervention is in the Maintenance: Evaluating a Whole System Approach to Increasing Physical Activity in Children by Sebastian Hinde, Dacheng Huo, Gerry Richardson
• NHS Hospital Capital Expenditure and Treatable Mortality in England by Jinhyun Kim, Susan Griffin, Joe Spearing
• The effect of disability reform on the mental health of older people in England by Andrew M. Jones, James Lomas, Suzanna Nesom, Joe Spearing
• Rethinking the Economic Evaluation of Early-Life Community Interventions: Evidence on Measurement, Endpoints, and Cost Structure by Dacheng Huo, Sebastian Hinde
• The measurement of intangible assets in the healthcare and public sectors: a scoping review of current knowledge and an application to the NHS App by Chris Warmington, Adriana Castelli, Anastasia Arabadzhyan
• Stranded in Emergency Department: The Impact of Trolley Time on Patient Outcomes by Yunhao Xu, Rita Santos, Peter Sivey, Martin Chalkley
• Ring-fenced funding and delayed discharge: The case of hospital discharge funding in England by Xiaotong Li, Anne Mason, Luigi Siciliani, James Gaughan
• The Effect of Health Insurance Exposure on Labour Supply: Evidence from Indonesia's Askeskin Public Health Insurance Programme by Alexandra Quiñones Nunura, Julia Hatamyar
• Closing Doors, Opening Gaps - Healthcare Consolidation and Inequality by Nils Gutacker
• Identifying bottlenecks in the patient pathway from primary care to surgery: The case of hip and knee replacement by James Gaughan, Rita Santos
• The effects of elective surgical hubs on elective surgery access, casemix and inequalities by Peter Sivey, Jinglin Wen, Zecharias Anteneh, Adriana Castelli, Joy Adamson
• Health economic modelling to inform trial design of a community-based intervention for hypertensive patients living in low-income urban areas in Bangladesh and Pakistan by Fei Liu, Anqian Zhou, Naomi Gibbs, Simon Walker
• What is the impact of fiscal devolution on Adult Social Care in England? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment by Francesco Longo, Andrea Salas-Ortiz, Karl Claxton, James Lomas
• From Waiting Rooms to Emergency Rooms: How GP Switching Influences ED Demand by Rita Santos
• Home Sweet Home? The role of Housing Quality in Cold Weather Emergency Admissions by Ni Gao, Helen Weatherly, Rita Santos
• Safe Isn’t Always Smart: Health Shocks, Risk Aversion, and the Role of Financial Literacy by Nigel Rice
• High Volume Low Complexity Surgical hubs in England: can they improve medical productivity? Evidence from the English National Health Service by Zecharias Anteneh, Adriana Castelli, Peter Sivey, Jinglin Wen
• Is AI value for money in population screening for diabetic retinopathy? by James Lomas
• Making value accrual mechanisms explicit: a framework to support reporting, critique and development of linked-evidence approaches for economic evaluations of tests by Ana Duarte, Simon Walker, Stephen Palmer, Marta Soares
• Health Financing and Child Mortality in India: The Mediating Role of Private Expenditure by Iván Ochoa Moreno, Sumit Mazumdar, Marc Suhrcke
• Comparing patient quality and efficiency outcomes of dual practice consultants in public versus private hospitals in England by Karen Bloor, Nils Gutacker