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NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care

17 January 2012

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) routinely publishes details of the evidence and reasoning underpinning its recommendations, including its social value judgments. To…

Is It Time to Reconsider the Role of Co-Payments in Europe?

11 January 2012

In a recent editorial in the European Journal of Health Economics, Prof Michael Drummond of York University and Prof Adrian Towse of the OHE take a…

Assessing value and balancing needs in health care

Spotlight on OHE: Assessing Value and Balancing Needs in Health Care

15 December 2011

During the last quarter of 2011, OHE team members were involved in discussions and presentations in a range of forums, covering each of OHE’s three areas…

Research Funding and Economic Growth

9 December 2011

Increasingly, governments in the UK and throughout Europe see R&D driven growth as the best way out of the financial crisis. The Government identifies the ‘UK’s…

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Website Upgrades Launch Today

8 December 2011

We have just completed a website upgrade, adding new materials to the website and improving its functioning.

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Upcoming OHE Seminars: MCDA and R&D Productivity

16 November 2011

Join OHE for two exciting seminars, one on MCDA and the other on shifts in investment in R&D.

Antibacterials: Roundtable Addresses the Critical Issues

10 November 2011

Antibacterial drug resistance is a serious and growing worldwide problem that threatens our ability to cure traditionally treatable diseases and to successfully perform numerous surgical procedures…

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New: Using Happiness to Value Health

9 November 2011

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and also serves as…

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Forecasting the UK Medicines Bill to 2014

7 November 2011

At the 13th Annual Conference of the Institute of Healthcare Management, Scotland, Jon Sussex discussed OHE’s model for projecting the UK NHS medicines bill to 2014…