Insights

Reflections from Adrian Towse on decades of HEOR research and impact

11 November 2025

Adrian Towse, Emeritus Director and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at OHE looks back at his journey and impact in health economics research.

Turning around the NHS: Reflections on the 2025 OHE Annual Lecture

14 October 2025

In this year’s Annual Lecture, Prof Anita Charlesworth takes a closer look at the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, concluding that all is not lost for the NHS, but questions of coherence, capacity, and capability remain.

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OHE’s submission to a parliamentary inquiry on UK drug shortages

6 October 2025

The following is an extract from OHE’s written submission to parliament focused on diversifying suppliers and recognising the value of treatment alternatives to mitigate this issue.

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Environmental sustainability in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: The need for green 

29 September 2025

This is the second in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the recently published 10 Year Plan measure up against some of the most pressing health concerns in the UK.

Around the World in HTAs: Saudi Arabia – Navigating the healthcare and HTA landscape

24 September 2025

The next stop in our around the world in HTAs adventure is Saudi Arabia. This blog breaks down how the Kingdom is reshaping access to new health technologies through regulatory reform, a formal HTA framework, and value-based care. It provides a comprehensive overview of the structural and regulatory reforms underway as part of Vision 2030, highlighting how these changes are reshaping the way new health technologies are evaluated, priced, and brought to market.

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The true cost and burden of frontotemporal dementia: Early insights into a pressing challenge

22 September 2025

In recognition of Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, OHE shares ongoing work quantifying the disease burden and cost-of-illness associated with FTD.

Prevention in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: Promise, limits, and the path forward

17 September 2025

This is the first in a series of blogs about how the proposals in the newly published 10 Year Plan measure up against some of the most pressing health concerns in the UK.

Around the world in HTAs: China – From fragmentation to function

2 September 2025

In this Insights series, Around the World in HTAs, we shed light on HTA around the world. In this edition Yawen Jiang, Meng Li and Claud Theakston take us to China.

Climate action is health action: OHE’s focus on sustainability

22 July 2025

At the intersection of health and the climate is an urgent crisis. This crisis affects health in ways that are wide-ranging, unevenly distributed, and difficult to isolate. It poses deep challenges not only for service delivery but for how we define value, whose preferences we measure, and how we account for intergenerational and regional equity.