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Using Competition with Care: Comment on the Revised Regulations for the NHS
19 March 2013
OHE’s Jon Sussex has studied and written extensively on competition in the NHS. He was a member of the OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS…
OHE This Week: BioWales 2013, UK Medicines Market and EQ-5D in Asia
18 March 2013
19 March: Jon Sussex will be at BioWales 2013 speaking on the health and wider economic benefits of life sciences research. 21 March: Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz will…
OHE has a Fixed-Term Opening for an Economist
15 March 2013
OHE is recruiting a highly motivated, experienced and energetic economist on a fixed term contract to contribute to its core activities. Applications must be received by…
Reasons for Discontinuation of R&D Projects: Lead and Follow-on Indications
12 March 2013
The reasons for discontinuation of R&D projects in the biopharmaceutical industry are often a matter of conjecture. In a recent presentation to the 25th Annual EuroMeeting…
Does Free Personal Care for the Elderly Reduce Informal Caregiving?
25 February 2013
Debates about whether to increase state assistance to the elderly have included concerns that this could reduce the amount of care from such personal caregivers, producing…
Review of Plans for Refining Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures
19 February 2013
At a recent meeting of the Pharmaceutical Onology Initiative’s (POI) HTA group, OHE’s Nancy Devlin provided an overview of the EuroQol Group’s scientific research agenda for…
In Memoriam: George Teeling Smith, OHE’s First Director
17 February 2013
Professor George Teeling Smith OBE, who set up the Office of Health Economics in 1962 and served as its Director for three decades, died unexpectedly on…
Spotlight on OHE: Understanding Value Based Pricing
12 February 2013
Value based pricing (VBP) is increasingly common in health care systems worldwide. OHE continues to make important contributions to the debate about VBP approaches and application…
New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context
7 February 2013
With Prof Patricia Danzon of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, OHE’s Adrian Towse and Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz have released an important working paper that addresses how…