This report is the outcome of joint work by the Health Division of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) and OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Martin Wenzl of the OECD Health Division and Kevin Charlton of the NEA led the work and co-ordinated and oversaw all research. Martin Wenzl edited the report. Chapter 1 was written by Dr Sandor J. Demeter of the Section of Nuclear Medicine at Shared Health Manitoba (Canada). Chapters 2, 3 and 5 were written by Martin Wenzl. Chapter 4 was written by Kevin Charlton.
The preparation of the report benefitted from review and comments by Francesca Colombo, Frederico Guanais, Ruth Lopert, Valérie Paris and Mark Pearson of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), Sama Bilbao y Leon at the Division of Nuclear Technology Development and Economics of the NEA, Chris Pike at the Competition Division of the OECD Directorate of Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF), Oskar Kvarnström and Cesar Alejandro Hernandez at the Directorate for Energy Markets and Security at the OECD International Energy Agency (IEA), Professor Alan Perkins at the University of Nottingham and the British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS), delegates to the OECD Health Committee and members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (HLG-MR).
The report also benefited from co-operation with the Directorate General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and NucAdvisor, the consultancy conducting the Study on Sustainable and Resilient Supply of Medical Radioisotopes in the European Union (SMER).
The OECD Health Division and NEA would like to thank the following persons for responding to the OECD Health Division Survey on Health Care Provider Payment for Nuclear Medicine Diagnostic Services, for helpful input to research for this report and for review of earlier drafts of the report: Mark Alexander at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO); Els Soete at the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV-INAMI); Dianne McMurray at Alberta Health Services (AHS) (Canada); Kevin Kearns at the Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia (Canada); Robert Shaffer at the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living of the Government of Manitoba (Canada); Debbie Morris at the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada); Susan Delaney at the Nova Scotia Health Authority (Canada); Nicole Charron at Health Canada; Vlastimil Válek at the Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the University Hospital Brno (Czech Republic); Peter Hovind at the Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and PET of Copenhagen University Hospital (Denmark); Eric Berton at the French National Health Insurance Fund for Salaried Workers (CNAM) (DDGOS – DOS – Département des actes médicaux); Florent Cachin at the French Society of Nuclear Medicine; Martin Freesmeyer at the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine of the University Hospital of Jena (Germany); Tomohiro Murakami at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan; Marite Caikovska at the Radiation Safety Centre of the State Environmental Service of Latvia; Gintaras Kuprionis at the Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) Kauno klinikos; Lina Reinartiene at the National Health Insurance Fund of Lithuania; Sigitas Tiskevicius at the National Cancer Institute (Lithuania); Angela Braun, Nico Harpes and Florence Romano at the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg; Laurence Weber at the Social Security Inspectorate of Luxembourg; Ischa de Waard at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM); the Ministry of Health and National Health Fund of Poland; Damijan Skrk at the Slovenian Radiation Protection Administration; Maria Ingevaldsson at the Swedish Drug Inspectorate Industry and Hospital; Rolf Hesselmann at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health; and Sheila M. Dixon at the Department of Operational Information for Commissioning of NHS England (United Kingdom).