An ageing population and meeting the health and care expectations of citizens are a high priority for governments, insurers, commissioners, service providers, businesses and service users across the world. Making sure strategy, performance and incentives are aligned is key to delivering healthcare at the very best value for our populations.

LE has extensive experience across the health and social care sector and bringing our economics expertise to bear on key questions. Our Partner, John Curnow, was Economics Director at Monitor, the economic regulator of healthcare, as well as a Director of Strategy within the NHS; and our senior team has wider epidemiological and health economics experience including using data science on Covid.

Case studies

Examples of our work include:

Projects to estimate the impact of heat on socio-economic outcomes, evaluating health financial incentives, examining the cost of palliative care, and the delivery of autism services for government departments, agencies and charities.
Projects analysing options and the costs and benefits of social care provision, as well as the potential benefits of social investment.
Economic analysis of health and wider social and economic outcomes from healthcare for women and long-term care following Covid 19.
Work on health and care labour markets for the States of Jersey, DWP and the Royal College of Nursing including Quantifying retention benefits for public sector nurses in England