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Can lessons from valuing health be useful in valuing development aid?
25 March 2012
Measuring and evaluating the impact of development aid is a perennial challenge. Various approaches have been tried. Since many have been aimed at donor needs and…
Spotlight on OHE: Valuing Spillovers, End-of-Life Decisions and Hospital Outcomes
20 March 2012
OHE’s outside activities in early 2012 focused on spillovers, HTA decision making, and measuring health outcomes.
Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar
16 March 2012
OHE’s invitational lunchtime seminar held March 14th featured the research of Prof Paul Dolan of the LSE on using measures of subjective wellbeing – “happiness” –…
New: Pay-for-Performance for Drugs and Incentives for Innovation
27 February 2012
Interest is growing in schemes that involve “paying for pills by results”, that is, “paying for performance” rather than merely “paying for pills”. Despite its intuitive…
Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions
20 February 2012
Measuring and publishing hospital data on achieved health outcomes is becoming routine in many health care systems. League tables of hospital quality – based on post-surgical…
What is the True Value of Spending on Medical Research?
13 February 2012
Over the past four years, OHE has been involved in research intended to examine more thoroughly the economic value of medical research in the UK. Understanding…
Join Us in Our 50th Anniversary Celebration!
7 February 2012
OHE has a number of exciting events and plans for 2012. Details in the full post.
Report: Competition Can Help the NHS – But Proceed with Care
31 January 2012
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) has just released the report of its Commission on Competition in the NHS, which recommends careful expansion of competition between…
New OHE Report: Time Trends in NICE HTA Decisions
25 January 2012
According to the 1999 UK Department of Health consultation document, the fundamental purpose of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was to reduce…