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Recent Events
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A Productivity Crisis in Pharmaceutical R&D? (Lunchtime Seminar)
08 December 2011
Professor Massimo Riccaboni, University of Trento (Limited seating)
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Potential Use of MCDA: Drawing on the EMA Project Experience (Lunchtime Seminar)
07 December 2011
Prof Larry Phillips, London Shool of Economics and Political Science (Limited Seating)
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Annual Lecture: Cost per QALY in the U.S. and Britain
15 November 2011
Cost per QALY in the U.S. and Britain: Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't? Prof. Milton Weinstein, Harvard University
OHE News
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New OHE Report: Time Trends in NICE HTA Decisions
25 January 2012
Several analyses have examined the uptake of technologies recommended by NICE, but this is the first research to examine whether and how NICE's HTA process may have affected the speed of access to new treatments.
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NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
This post summarises a study that examines the inclusion of social value judgments in NICE guidance decisions and describes the social value judgments about equity in health and health care that NICE has used to guide its decision making to date.
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Is It Time to Reconsider the Role of Co-Payments in Europe?
11 January 2012
The authors suggest that co-payment could offer a way to recognise the heterogeneity of individual patient preferences while avoiding unequal access based on ability to pay.
Featured Projects
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Using Patient Reported Outcomes (PROMs) to Value Health Care
OHE was awarded a £325,000 Policy Research Programme grant by the UK Department of Health in early 2010. The fifteen-month project focuses on a new health status index – the five-level (5L) EQ-5D — th…
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Investigating NICE's Cost Effectiveness Threshold
The purpose of this research is to determine what evidence appears to most influence the decisions of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) about medical technologies. …
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OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS
Following on its successful Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity, the OHE launched the independent OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS in February 2011. The purpose of the Com…