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Ethical and Economic Issues in the Appraisal of Medicines for Ultra-rare (or Ultra-orphan) Conditions
13 January 2020
In light of concerns that not all medicines for ultra-rare (also known as ultra-orphan) conditions are appraised under the same NICE process, a new OHE Consulting…
Funding Challenges in the Malaysian Health Care System
7 January 2020
Adrian Towse presented at the Monash Malaysia Health Economics Forum 2019 on three related topics: health system financing in Malaysia; pharmaceutical price regulation and competition in…
OHE at HESG Winter 2020
2 January 2020
Meet some of the OHE team at the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Winter 2020 meeting in Newcastle, 6-8 January 2020.
OHE Presents at Global AMR R&D Hub Board of Members Meeting in Paris
18 December 2019
OHE presented at the Global AMR R&D Hub Board of Members Meeting in Paris, on adapting HTA and payment mechanisms to incentivise new drugs to tackle…
New OHE Research Funding: Improving Labour Productivity in Primary Care
17 December 2019
OHE has been awarded a 3-year research grant by the Health Foundation’s Efficiency Research Programme to define an accurate measure of labour productivity in primary care…
OHE has an Opening for an Industrial Economist
20 November 2019
The Office of Health Economics wishes to recruit a well-qualified, highly motivated and energetic economist with an industrial organisation background applied to the health care sector,…
Press Release: Proposed International Price Index Effectively Outsources Pharmaceutical Policy Decisions to Other Countries
29 October 2019
New research by the Office of Health Economics (OHE) concludes the proposed International Price Index effectively outsources pharmaceutical policy decisions to countries that “give the government…
Chronic Diseases and the Stock of Health: Quantification Using EQ-5D-5L
15 October 2019
Chronic diseases affect individuals’ health status and its impact is reflected by the stock of health, which measures the amount of health of a population in…
Patient Preferences for Diagnostic Tests Aimed at Managing Antimicrobial Resistance
7 October 2019
Research by OHE and the University of Sussex into patients’ preferences for diagnostic tests aimed at reducing antimicrobial resistance has been published in Applied Health Economics…