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What Outcomes are Important in Student Mental Health and Wellbeing?

2 May 2019

The Student Mental Health Research Network (SMaRteN), in which OHE is a collaborator, is conducting research to find out which outcome measures are most useful in…

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The Value of International Volunteers’ Experience to the NHS

24 April 2019

A new paper by OHE and Health Education England on the value of international volunteers’ experience to the NHS has been published in Globalization and Heath.

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Adult Versus Adolescent Preferences for EQ-5D-Y Health States

15 April 2019

Koonal Shah gave a webinar for the International Health Economics Association on the topic of adult versus adolescent preferences for EQ-5D-Y health states.

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Can We Really Compare and Aggregate Patient-reported Outcomes Between People and Settings?

11 April 2019

A new OHE Research Paper considers whether we can compare and aggregate patient-reported outcome (PRO) data between people and settings. The paper is authored by Nancy…

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The WHO Technical Report on the Pricing of Cancer Medicines: Missing a Central Role for Value Assessment

8 April 2019

A new OHE Research Paper reviews a recent report on cancer pricing published by the World Health Organization. The authors argue that the report fails to…

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Quality of Life and Rare Disease: Lessons from Spinal Muscular Atrophy

2 April 2019

The measurement of quality of life in the context of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is challenging. This is because the disease is experienced by children and…

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Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Five Questions We Think Matter a Lot

29 March 2019

Transparency as a principle of good governance is not the same as transparency for improving access by lowering prices. In fact, the former often carries an…

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Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Not So Fast…

28 March 2019

Report does not recommend price transparency for on-patent medicines, but buyers should share multi-source product price data among themselves. Transparency of the procurement process encourages bidders.…

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Cascades of Care in Health Policy Analysis and Planning

26 March 2019

‘Cascades of care’ have emerged as an attractive tool for assessing access to care for numerous chronic diseases. Dr Haacker will examine the use of cascades…