Roger Hay

It is with great regret that OPI has announced the passing of Roger Hay
His working life is a remarkable story - the way his activities and skills broadened out - from medicine and surgery into economics and institutions; and from academic enquiry at the Food Studies (FSG) at Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford into management from 1996 onwards, as well as into a much wider range of subjects. Read more.

New from OPI

The Board of Trustees has announced that Nicholas Morris will serve as Acting Director of OPI
The Board of Trustees has announced that Nicholas Morris will serve as Acting Director of OPI. Nicholas Morris was formerly the Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was the founder of London Economics, and for some years its CEO. He has extensive experience in economic consultancy and research principally on utility regulation and health. He has worked in many developing countries, most recently in China and Southeast Asia. Read more.

Regulation, motivation and the NHS reforms
This study at UCLH, funded by the General Medical Council, is now complete. A brief history of the project can be found here. Working papers from the project can be found here and here. There is a Project Brief here. Other ESRC Public Services Programme projects are here.

Health sector institutions, motivation and performance conference: April 2010.

The Cambodia Development Resources Institute (CDRI) is convening a three-day conference in April 2010 with support from the Department for International Development, UK (DFID) and WHO to explore four themes related to the institutions and incentives that moderate the behaviour of health workers and health service consumers:

1. Alternative organisational arrangements for delivering health services including commissioning and purchasing
2. The incentives associated with alternative health worker employment contracts
3. Healthworker management regimes
4. The incentives health service consumers have for using healthcare effectively

Papers will be presented by Cambodian researchers, international speakers and by the authors of commissioned papers.

Most read OPI papers

The most read papers on OPI’s website between July and September 2009 were:

Public service motivation and performance incentives Jerrett Myers

Anti retroviral pricing: markets or politics Sonam Sethi

Structuring incentives in public organisations Fiona Murray

A political economy of education in India Geeta Kingdon & Mohammed Muzzamil

Teacher contracts and performance Ros Levacic

OPI welcomes papers that focus on the incentives and institutions that motivate public sector performance. Articles might highlight a current or emerging issue, develop a topic for further research, describe a piece of theory or offer some empirical evidence.  The guidance notes are available here.

If you would like to contribute, please contact the OPI editor.