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T he gap between the demand for healthcare services and the funds available to pay for them will continue to grow, according to Dr Ullrich Hoffmeyer, senior consultant for National Economic Research Associates (NERA) in London, UK. 1 , 2 This conclusion is based on a NERA study, first reported in September 1993, comparing national healthcare systems. Dr Hoffmeyer discussed this study during a recent European workshop * on healthcare reforms, where he emphasised the key role that financing plays in every healthcare system. 1 As he told delegates, ‘everything else revolves around it’.
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* The workshop was sponsored by the London School of Economics, the Directorate General XII of the European Commission and Pharmaceutical Partners for Better Healthcare. The latter is a group of 39 global research-based pharmaceutical companies who have joined together to lobby for reform of national healthcare systems.
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Langsdale, T. Healthcare reforms needed to avert funding crises. Pharmacoecon. Outcomes News 43, 8–9 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03319545
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