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Which English Hospital is Best at Hips?
29 September 2010
Earlier this month, the first set of data on post operative patient reported outcomes (PROMs) was published by the Department of Health (DH). For the first…
Costs and Bariatric Surgery in England
23 September 2010
Obesity is an increasing challenge in England, as elsewhere. OHE has completed a study that examines PCT practice and the cost savings that could accrue if…
OHE Consulting: Local and Global Expertise
14 September 2010
OHE Consulting makes the expertise of the team at the Office of Health Economics available to organisations in all sectors – public, private and voluntary. The…
Value Based Pricing in the UK
7 September 2010
Every country around the globe struggles with attaining an appropriate balance between providing affordable health care and ensuring access to medical advances. In a recent article…
Defining Benefit Through Willingness to Pay
24 August 2010
Since 2007, new medications may be paid for by the statutory health insurance funds (GKV) in Germany only if they are cost-effective. Willingness-to-pay analyses can be…
Competition in the NHS: ‘Payment by Results’
17 August 2010
Jon Sussex, Deputy Director of the OHE, researches incentives and competition in UK health services. In July, he presented findings on ‘Payment by Results’ to the…
Comparing Economic Appraisal Guides in England
10 August 2010
Debate continues about the methods that the UK’s NICE uses in its appraisals of medical technologies, including whether effects beyond the NHS should be considered using…
Limits to Using QALYs in Cancer
3 August 2010
QALY measures have become important tools in valuing health interventions so that resource allocations can be made. Current methods, however, may not adequately capture QALYs for…
Part 2: 2010 Lecture on US Health Reform
27 July 2010
Each year, OHE sponsors an Annual Lecture that examines an important issue in health care. In late June, Dr Alan Garber spoke on US health care…