The 2nd HPD report - Health Policy Monitor

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Contents Editorial ...................................................................................... 9 Introduction ............................................................................... 17 Health and Aging ...................................................................... 21 Aging: Rising on the policy agenda .......................................... 24 Australia: National Strategy for an Ageing Australia ........... 24 Aging: Integrated care and quality issues ................................ 26 The Netherlands: Compulsory health insurance (AWBZ) and long-term care .................................................................. 26 The Netherlands: Integrated care for the elderly .................. 27 Spain: Second plan for integrating health and social care in Castilla y Léon .................................................................... 28 England: National service framework for older people Denmark: Free choice of provider of personal ........ 30 and practical help .................................................................... 31 Austria: Family Hospice Sabbatical ....................................... 32 Introduction of long-term care insurance ................................ 33 Spain: Toledo Agreement and LTC insurance ..................... 33 France: Towards long-term care reform ............................... 35 Switzerland: Long-term care insurance not (yet) in sight .... 37 Reform of long-term care coverage .......................................... 39 Austria: Ten years of LTC coverage ....................................... 39 Germany: Proposals to achieve financial sustainability of LTCI ............................................................. 40 5
Private Financing ....................................................................... 42 New Zealand: Removal of assets test for older people in long-term residential care .................................................. 42 United Kingdom: Recent reforms of policy on long-term care for elderly people ........................................... 43 USA: Expansion of prescription drug coverage for the elderly .......................................................................... 45 Pharmaceutical Policies ............................................................ 49 France: Lower reimbursement rates and delisting of pharmaceuticals ..................................................................... 50 France: Liberalization of prices for innovative medicines England and Wales: Health technology assessment ...... 52 and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Denmark: Emphasis on economic evaluation ................... 54 of new pharmaceuticals ............................................................. 56 Austria: Criteria for reimbursable drugs and promotion of generics .................................................................................. 57 Finland: Generic substitution of prescription drugs .............. 59 Finland: New Development Center for Drug Therapy ........... 60 Spain: Reference pricing system for generic medicines: update and extension ................................................................. 62 Republic of Korea: Separation of drug prescribing and dispensing ........................................................................... 64 New Zealand: Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines ......................................................... 66 Human Resources for Health ................................................... 67 Australia: Policy responses to chronic and acute shortages in the nursing workforce ........................................................... 67 California: First-in-nation rules on nurse-to-patient ratios ........................................................................................... 67 The Netherlands: Coping with prospective shortages in the medical workforce ........................................................... 70 New Zealand: Workforce development .................................... 72 Canada: A co-coordinated and comprehensive approach to health human resource planning ......................................... 73 6
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Page 18 and 19: Introduction This second issue of
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Page 22 and 23: Health and Aging Long life expectan
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keep products eligible for reimburs
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Austria: Criteria for reimbursable
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Federation of Austrian Social Secur
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Idea Pilot Policy Paper Legislation
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Spain has now introduced a variety
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Human Resources for Health The past
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California: First-in-nation rules o
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Canada: A co-coordinated and compre
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Newsflash In this section, we follo
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ance (“Haut Conseil pour l’Aven
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law will allow some 14 percent of C
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Lieberman) proposed to finance the
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The policy emphasizes personal resp
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Canada: Independent council for qua
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New Zealand: Improving quality—a
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- Degree of innovation (compared wi
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9. Long-term care: Long-term care a
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6 Responsiveness to and empowerment
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Sources of information Please indic
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❒ International organizations ❒
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Patients Civil society Private sect
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Structured summary Q 5.4 (optional)
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7. Rating this policy (expert opini
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Call for Support International Netw
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