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Effects of Public and Charitable Research Funding
20 April 2011
Released today is an OHE study commissioned by Cancer Research UK that explores the interdependence between publicly funded and charity funded medical research. In particular, the…
Incorporating Multiple Criteria in HTA
19 April 2011
This OHE publication is intended to inform and stimulate debate about the way different sorts of evidence and considerations are taken into account in decisions about…
New: Antimicrobial Drug Incentives
6 April 2011
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming a major global public health threat. In this new OHE Research Paper, the authors identify barriers to the development of new…
Valuing the National Clinical Assessment Service
1 April 2011
The UK’s National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) provides advice to NHS managers about handling performance issues involving doctors, pharmacists and dentists. This post summarises an OHE…
Value-Based Pricing: OHE Comments
23 March 2011
In December 2010, the UK Department of Health released a consultation document to elicit comments on ‘proposals for a new value-based system of pricing medicines which…
Two Economists Join OHE
10 March 2011
The Office of Health Economics is pleased to announce the appointment of two Economists. Dr Yan Feng specialises in understanding what incentives affect the behaviour of…
Differential Pricing – A Win-Win Solution?
2 March 2011
Summarised in this post is a just-released OHE Occasional Paper that examines the potentially positive impact of differential pricing in Europe and the overall negative effects…
New: Priority Review Vouchers and Innovation
17 February 2011
This OHE Seminar Briefing recounts a presentation by Prof Henry Grabowski on US Priority Review Vouchers, intended to provide an incentive for the development of drugs…
New OHE Commission on Competition in the NHS
14 February 2011
Competition in the NHS is viewed as if it must either be for everything the NHS provides to patients or for nothing. Neither extreme is likely…