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Yan Feng
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The Effect of Pay on Job Satisfaction and Performance in the UK NHS

24 October 2011

For nearly a decade, the UK NHS has been using performance-related compensation to motivate health care professionals to perform their jobs well. Research demonstrates that the…

Nurse and patient
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New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes

18 October 2011

A new discussion paper from the Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, reports first results from a programme of collaborative research by CHE, Nancy…

Cracks through the ice on a melting glacier in Alaska
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Spotlight on OHE: Measuring Preferences, HTA Benchmarking, Value-Based Pricing, and Rationing

13 October 2011

This post reviews OHE’s activities in September 2011 that contributed to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research areas: financing and delivery…

Koonal Shah
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Valuing Health at the End of Life: Public Preferences

13 October 2011

In 2009, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice that its Appraisal Committees are to consider when assessing treatments that…

Profs Adrian Towse and Nancy Devlin
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Join OHE at ISPOR: MCDA, Risk Sharing and Value-Based Pricing

4 October 2011

Join OHE at ISPOR to discuss multiple criteria decision analysis, value based pricing, risk sharing, post-approval data collection and other key topics in HTA and health…

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Evidence on Valued Based Pricing and Reimbursement Schemes

30 September 2011

At the PPRI conference in Vienna on 29-30 September, 2011, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz presented a poster summarising the results of a literature review on risk sharing, flexible…

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OHE in the Spotlight: Summer 2011

22 September 2011

This is the first in a series of posts that will review OHE’s contributions to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research…

Health Affairs
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HTA and Appropriate Drug Pricing Worldwide

9 September 2011

The August 2011 issue of Health Affairs featured four articles on how and why pricing for pharmaceuticals differs from one country to another. The OHE’s Prof…

Sharma and Towse
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Incentives for R&D for New Antimicrobial Drugs

31 August 2011

Just published by OHE researchers is a comprehensive analysis of what policy measures are needed to counter the growing global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Their key…