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Value Based Pricing in Sweden

Value Based Pricing in Sweden: Lessons for Design?

28 November 2012

OHE has just published a Seminar Briefing by Ulf Persson, head of the Swedish Institute of Health Economics, which reviews experience with the Swedish value based…

Prof Tony Culyer

Collected Essays by Tony Culyer on Health Economics

25 November 2012

Just released is a collection of essays by Prof Tony Culyer, a founding father of health economics whose life’s work has been to bring clarity to…

Future UK Medicines Spending: Four Nation Analysis

31 October 2012

In July, OHE released projections for medicines spending in the UK NHS for 2012‒2015. We have now completed further projections, also for the ABPI, for each…

Causes of Death: A Study of a Century of Change in England and Wales

Tracking Changes in the Causes of Death in England and Wales

25 October 2012

OHE’s health and health care statistics service long has been respected as a source of reliable data. In an OHE Briefing just published, OHE uses this…

International Comparisons of Medicine Prices. 2011 Indices. Methodology and Results

Comparing Prescription Medicines Prices in the UK to Prices in Other Countries

23 October 2012

Since 1996, in its yearly PPRS Report to Parliament, the Department of Health in England has published international price comparisons of branded medicines used in the…

Cracks through the ice on a melting glacier in Alaska

Join OHE in a Seminar to Discuss IP, Innovation and the Human Genome

19 October 2012

In this OHE lunchtime seminar, Prof Heidi Williams of MIT will present the results of a recent paper using newly-collected data on the sequencing of the…

Report of OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS

Competition in the NHS: Proceed with Care

16 October 2012

The role of competition in the NHS is again in the news. Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of both the NHS in England and the NHS…

Cracks through the ice on a melting glacier in Alaska

Meeting the Challenges of Drug Development in 2022: Summary of OHE’s 50th Anniversary Conference

11 October 2012

To celebrate its 50th Anniversary, OHE held a conference this week, The Challenges and Economics of Drug Development in 2022, which explored the likely evolution of…

Advances in Oncology Modelling: Recent Results from POI Research

18 September 2012

OHE and the Pharmaceutical Oncology Initiative (POI) held a workshop to discuss and debate several key issues in oncology modelling. Participating were more than 50 experts…