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Pricing Variations Within and Across Countries: Gauging Efficiency
25 February 2014
This research explores which approaches to pricing can produce the greatest efficiency and access to medicines within and across countries. OHE collaborated on two articles published…
Benefiting from the Promise of Personalised Medicine: Recent OHE Presentations
18 February 2014
Focusing on England, these two presentations describe the core economic considerations in making the most of targeted therapy. OHE’s Adrian Towse participated in a two-day workshop…
Social Preferences and Burden of Illness in Value-based Assessments
11 February 2014
This recent research is intended to inform changes in NICE’s approach to assessing the value of medical technologies. Throughout the year, OHE presents a number of…
Variations in Outcome and Costs in NHS Hospitals: Recent Report
6 February 2014
Using innnovative econometric techniques, this report explores whether and how hospital outcomes and resource use are related for four common procedures.
Contracting for Quality in the NHS: 20th Annual Lecture Publication
28 January 2014
The key to effective and lasting quality improvement is better, not more, regulation. Professor Alan Maynard, University of York, delivered the 20th OHE Annual Lecture five…
OHE at HESG: Value-based Assessment in the UK; Developing the EQ-5D-5L
23 January 2014
OHE’s contributions focused on approaches to implementing UK value-based assessment and the details of creating an EQ-5D-5L value set for England. The Health Economists’ Study Group…
OHE Welcomes Charlesworth and Mays to its Editorial Board
14 January 2014
Composed of academics and thought leaders from within and outside the UK, OHE’s Editorial Board has provided advice and guidance to the OHE’s peer-reviewed publications programme…
Personalised Medicine and the Value of Molecular Diagnostics: Case Studies
18 December 2013
Progress in personalised medicine is slower than some had expected, partly because of the science and partly because of insufficient economic incentives, particularly for investing in…
Inconsistent Use of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
12 December 2013
This study finds an apparent mismatch in the decision making approaches of the SMC and the NHS Boards. OHE today released a Research Paper on the…