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Value Based Pricing in the UK
7 September 2010
…of Clinical Pharmacology, Prof Adrian Towse examines the issues from a UK perspective. Managing and containing costs in the NHS is a perennial challenge. Far less clear is how to…
Personalised Medicine: Economic Incentives for Evidence Generation
28 October 2013
Four types of economic incentives for drugs and diagnostics are essential to encouraging more rapid progress in personalised medicine. Adrian Towse, OHE’s Director, and Lou Garrison, a professor at the…
Would Waiving COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Save Lives?
18 May 2021
…intellectual property (IP) waiver, in the short- and the long… Mireia Jofre-Bonet Mireia Jofre-Bonet Dimitrios-2-scaled-1 Dimitrios Kourouklis Adrian-1-scaled-1 Adrian Towse This blog discusses the rationale behind a COVID-19 patent waiver…
OHE Involved in Developing New AMS Report on Stratified Medicines
15 July 2013
Professor Adrian Towse, OHE’s Director, joined Professor Sir John Bell and Professor Andrew Morris at the Science Media Centre last week to launch Realising the Potential of Stratified Medicine, a…
Ethical Goals and Design Criteria for ‘Fair Access” to Drugs in the US Health Care System
31 March 2021
…to a drug’. This Open Access paper, by authors from ICER(Steve Pearson, Maria Lowe and Celia Segal) and OHE ( Adrian Towse and Chris Henshall) sets out ethical goals and…
Uncertainty and Risk in Decision Making
16 July 2014, 11:00pm
…if it is approved. Based on his current research, Adrian Towse reviewed evidence at this seminar that suggests that decision makers react negatively to uncertainty about a technology’s costs and…
Professor Graham Cookson Appointed OHE Director Designate
24 April 2018
The Office of Health Economics Trustees have appointed Professor Graham Cookson as Director Designate. He will be the successor to Professor Adrian Towse as OHE Director. Adrian plans to step…
OHE’s Towse on Quality Standards in the ‘New’ English NHS
29 April 2013
…meeting standards for quality, are essential going forwards. At the conference, OHE’s Adrian Towse reviewed the experiences and concerns that have shaped the approach to quality and identified critical components….
How Should the World Pay for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
31 July 2020
This year’s OHE lecture addressed the question: how should the world pay for a COVID-19 vaccine? The paper by Adrian Towse and Isobel Firth accompanying the lecture is now published….