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OHE Welcomes Dr. Aslam Anis
28 January 2015
Dr. Aslam Anis, Director of the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences (CHEOS) in Canada will undertake a short sabbatical with the Office of Health…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar on 23 February 2015: The Impact of Price-cap Regulations on Entry and Exit by Generic Pharmaceutical Firms in Canada
22 January 2015
OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Aslam H. Anis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver’s Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences and the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials…
Spotlight on OHE: Opportunity Costs of NICE Decisions in Wales and HESG 2015
20 January 2015
Jon Sussex presents on the opportunity costs of implementing NICE decisions in Wales, and OHE attend HESG in Leeds, January 2015.
Multinational Evidence of the Applicability and Robustness of Discrete Choice Modeling for Deriving EQ-5D-5L Health-State Values
13 January 2015
Published in Medical Care [open access] is a paper reporting a multi-country pilot study investigating the feasibility of using discrete choice experiments (DCE) to value EQ-5D-5L…
Recently Published: New Report Comparing Usage of Medicines in the UK with Other Countries
6 January 2015
September 2014 ABPI report of OHE analysis: UK use of medicines compared with other countries – UK remains 9th highest user out of 13 countries.
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Improving Sustainability through Needs-Based Planning
31 December 2014
The issue of health service planning regularly hits the headlines. In a speech delivered in October by the Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens described…
Spotlight on OHE: EQ-5D-5L, Next Generation Sequencing, and MCDA
19 December 2014
For information on OHE at ISPOR Europe please see earlier posts: OHE at ISPOR Europe 1 and OHE at ISPOR Europe 2. Does the choice…
EQ-VAS an Important and Under-used Element of the EQ-5D
17 December 2014
On 18th November 2014 OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin presented at the King’s Fund Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) research conference. Nancy’s presentation focused on the role of…
OHE in the BMJ: Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund, and Reviving the PROMs Programme
10 December 2014
On 28th November 2014 the BMJ published the Editorial “Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund”. In this editorial, Buxton, Longworth, Raftery, Sculpher and Towse argue that the…