Seminars
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- Title:
- OHE Lunchtime Seminar - Making Long-Term Care an Entitlement while Containing Costs – Lessons from Japan
- Date:
- 09 Jun 08
- Time:
- 12 noon - 2.00 pm
- Venue:
- 12 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY
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- OHE Commission Launch - NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
- Date:
- 10 Mar 08
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- Accommodating orphan drugs: balancing innovation and financial stability
- Date:
- 25 Feb 08
- Venue:
- Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly
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- OHE One-Day Workshop. Accommodating Orphan Drugs: Balancing Innovation and Financial Stability
- Date:
- 25 Feb 08
- Venue:
- Le Meridien
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- OHE Compendium of Health Statistics Launch
- Date:
- 06 Feb 08
- Time:
- 10.30 am
- Venue:
- Thistle Charing Cross Hotel
- Outline:
- What is Happening to the Nation’s Health? An update on health and health care in the UK
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- PIHEG Meeting 2007
- Date:
- 02 Jul 07
- Title:
- “Can We Compare Health Care Systems”
- Date:
- 22 Jun 07
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- OHE 14th Annual Lecture
- Date:
- 13 Jun 07
- Venue:
- Royal College of Physicians, London
- Outline:
- The OHE Annual Lecture is a focal point of the OHE calendar. It provides an opportunity for the OHE’s stakeholders to hear opinion leaders present their views and ideas on a topic related to our work in the fields of health care policy, health technology assessment, and pharmaceutical industry economics, pricing and regulation. The lecture brings together a unique gathering of experts
- Title:
- Beyond Health Care Costs and QALYs: Theory and Application
- Date:
- 31 May 07
- Outline:
- This breakfast meeting was held to discuss aspects of economic evaluation beyond the scope of conventional cost per QALY assessments considered by health technology assessment bodies such as NICE.
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- Cooksey and the OFT Report: Developing the Right Technologies at the Right Price with the Evidence Needed for NHS Practice?
- Date:
- 02 May 07
- Outline:
- The OHE and the University of York Centre for Health Economics jointly organised a one-day workshop in central London to discuss issues raised by both the Office of Fair Trading’s Report on the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, and the Cooksey Report
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- “The new global economics of vaccines. Will the scientific potential be realised?” - OHE 13th Annual Lecture and Dinner
- Date:
- 30 Nov 06
- Venue:
- Royal College of Physicians
- Outline:
- The traditional public health model of vaccine purchase through public tendering to drive down prices and rising regulatory standards was widely seen as hitting innovation, leading to the exit of companies from vaccine research and manufacture.....
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- Generic Competition and Market Exclusivity. An update on the US market - OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 16 Oct 06
- Outline:
- In this OHE lunchtime seminar Henry Grabowski, Professor of Economics and Director of the Program in Pharmaceuticlas and Health Economics at Duke University discussed his recent work on generic competition and market exclusivity in the US market, including related work he has undertaken on generic biologics (often called follow-on biologics or bio-similars).
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- PIHEG Meeting - 13 September 2006
- Date:
- 13 Sep 06
- Outline:
- Alec Miners, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the NICE Appraisal Committee, gave some personal reflections on NICE technology appraisal methods and processes. One of the issues he covered was that, while there is a clear need to model in cost-effectiveness analysis, NICE provides little guidance on what constitutes good modelling practice....
- Title:
- “Nice In The USA?”
- Date:
- 30 Jun 06
- Outline:
- Economic evaluation is little used in the USA. Health spending per capita is the highest in the world. The recent growth of “evidence based medicine” in the US is seen as a tool to cut costs and restrict choice rather than to improve quality.
- Title:
- “Why Pay for Me-toos?”
- Date:
- 28 Jun 06
- Outline:
- The benefits of introducing additional products within an existing therapy class and of new dosage forms for an existing product are often disputed – especially if companies look for price premiums. Many payers look for “class effects”. Payers are also reluctant to pay for “convenience” and sceptical of arguments about improved adherence....
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- Health and Health Care Policy: the Role of Medicines Information - OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 02 Mar 06
- Outline:
- There is no shortage of Government health and health care policies on the role of medicines information. But ways of achieving the objectives of those policies are at more of a premium...
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- National medicines pricing and reimbursement policies in Europe - OHE One-day Conference.
- Date:
- 30 Nov 05
- Venue:
- The Charing Cross Hotel
- Outline:
- A one-day conference aimed at understanding current and future trends of medicines pricing and reimbursement (P&R) in Europe.
- Title:
- “Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance” - OHE 12th Annual Lecture and Dinner.
- Date:
- 10 Nov 05
- Venue:
- Royal College of Physicians
- Outline:
- Professor Arrow discussed the recommendations of the Report “Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance” of the US Institute of Medicine (IoM) Committee he chaired...
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- PIHEG Meeting - 27 September 2005
- Date:
- 27 Sep 05
- Outline:
- OHE organised this year's second Pharmaceutical Industry Health Economists Group Meeting in September. The themes for this meeting were NICE decision criteria, and the use of evidence in NICE decisions. The presentations were...
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- Health Care and Pharmaceutical Reform in France: A Status Report by Claude Le Pen, Professor of Economics, Paris-Dauphine University - OHE Lunchtime Seminar.
- Date:
- 21 Jan 05
- Outline:
- French policymakers typically view their system as a realistic compromise between Britain’s National Health Service, which they believe requires too much rationing and offers insufficient choice, and the mosaic of subsystems in the United States, which they consider socially...
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- PIHEG Meeting - 14 December 2004
- Date:
- 14 Dec 04
- Outline:
- This meeting covered two main themes: Payment by results, post-launch data collection and Implementation of NICE guidance, the social value of a QALY...
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- SMC Submissions from the Pharmaceutical Industry,
- Date:
- 29 Jun 04
- Outline:
- This joint seminar, for an invited audience of those preparing and appraising SMC submissions from the pharmaceutical industry, the consultancy sector and the SMC, was designed to assist the SMC in developing its guidance for manufacturers and sponsors...
- Title:
- Skill Mix, Incentives and Health Care Productivity,
- Date:
- 18 May 04
- Outline:
- This joint seminar with the Oxford Policy Institute and the Economic and Social Research Council considered whether productivity measurements should focus on treatments, individuals, teams or organisations. Alan Maynard introduced the day with his...
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- Lifetime Impacts - The Economics of Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health, A joint seminar with The Mental Health Foundation
- Date:
- 26 Apr 04
- Outline:
- Experience of mental health problems in childhood or adolescence can affect the rest of a person’s life. Consequently the promotion of mental health, and the prevention and treatment of mental illness in childhood and adolescence can have equally long-term impacts...
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- Long Term Care Lessons from Japan - OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Prof Naoki Ikegami.
- Date:
- 01 Apr 04
- Outline:
- In Japan, it is estimated that by the year 2020 almost 30 per cent of the population with be aged 65 and over. The ageing society has become Japan’s biggest policy issue. How will this section of the population with more and complex needs be cared for? How will such care be paid for?...
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- New Financial Flows for NHS Hospitals, Introducing payment by results in England: some lessons from overseas, A one-day workshop organised jointly with the University of York, Centre for Health Economics
- Date:
- 31 Mar 04
- Outline:
- In April 2004 the second phase of introducing payment by results into English NHS hospitals begins. In the US and other European countries similar payment systems have already been introduced. This all day seminar examined the issues that are likely to result from paying...
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- “What Should Patients Be Able To Choose? - The Relevance Of Decision Techonologies To Empowerment”, OHE lunchtime seminar organised jointly with the Department of Health Strategy Unit
- Date:
- 09 Feb 04
- Outline:
- Increased choice for patients is a major objective of health care policy in the UK. This is not just about where treatment is to take place but also which among various possible treatment options suits the patient best. Choice can only be real if patients are empowered...
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- Measuring Quality Adjusted Productivity Growth in Health Care: Studies in Schizophrenia and Depression, OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 15 Dec 03
- Outline:
- Ernie Berndt, Professor of Applied Economics at MIT and Director of the NBER Program on Technological progress and Productivity Measurement in the US, outlined his recent research on using a disease based approach to measure quality adjusted productivity...
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- Spending the Next $ for Global Health – Roles and Priorities for Charities and Governments - OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 04 Nov 03
- Outline:
- At the Millennium Summit in 2000, global leaders committed in principle to dramatically reduce poverty and improve the health of the poor via the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals. However, the resources so far committed to achieving these high level statements have...
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- Predicting Medicines Expenditure - Half-Day Seminar at the OHE
- Date:
- 04 Jul 03
- Outline:
- The rate of growth of the NHS medicines bill is a frequent focus of attention from prescribers, managers, policy makers and the pharmaceutical industry. Predicting future medicines expenditure is a matter of importance for all those groups. Yet remarkably little...
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- Ranking health care systems – messages for the NHS? - OHE 10th Annual Lecture and Dinner,
- Date:
- 02 Jul 03
- Outline:
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) is reworking the controversial analysis published in its 2000 World Health Report which put France as the top performing health care system in the world with the UK number 18 and the USA number 37. In this years OHE lecture...
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- “Guidelines, Governance and the Future of Clinical Freedom”, OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 24 Jun 03
- Outline:
- Chris Newdick lead a discussion on the difference between politics, economics and patient rights in the health care debate and suggest mechanisms for easing the tension. Chris is a barrister and Reader in Health Law at the University of Reading He has researched...
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- “When Social Health Care Insurers Compete – Innovation or Cream Skimming?”
- Date:
- 05 Jun 03
- Venue:
- London
- Outline:
- An idea mooted, but so far not debated in detail in the UK, is to instigate competition between NHS purchasers of health care, e.g. by allowing people to choose which Primary Care Trust they wish to be covered by. In Switzerland, competition of this kind, between...
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- Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context, One-Day Conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Date:
- 30 May 03
- Venue:
- London
- Outline:
- The purpose of this one-day conference was to locate and promote the role of health economics in mental health policy in low and middle income countries. Health economists have a growing voice in health policy development. But just as it is only recently that...
- Title:
- Modelling Health Care Costs and Expenditures
- Date:
- 14 Apr 03
- Venue:
- London
- Outline:
- The Office of Health Economics held it’s first masterclass on 14th April 2003. OHE provided a rare opportunity for UK health economists to hear Professor Will Manning, a leading expert on health economic modelling from the University of Chicago, discuss his latest thoughts on...