Briefing
Briefings report OHE research and, on occasion, that of other experts.
New Guidelines for Economic Evaluation in Germany and the United Kingdom: Are We Any Closer to Developing International Standards?
1 November 2008
Australia was the first, in 1993, to make economic evaluation an important component of its decisions about reimbursement of drugs. Since then, several jurisdictions have followed…
The Market for Biosimilars: Evolution and Policy Options
1 November 2008
The authors point out that biopharmaceuticals are more complex agents than conventional chemical entities and therefore are more difficult to replicate after patent expiry. Off-patent versions…
Health Care Services and the Single European Market
1 September 2008
In 2008, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care. This followed two 1998 landmark…
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Benefit-Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals from an Economic Perspective
1 August 2008
This Briefing reports the discussions of a group of experts at an OHE workshop on the benefit-risk assessments of drugs. The objective was to identify how…
Three Challenges to Achieving Better Analysis for Better Decisions: Generalisability, Complexity and Thresholds
1 October 2006
In June 2006, a conference entitled Better Analysis for Better Decisions: Bridging the Gap Between Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Decision-Making was held at McMaster University in…
The Faces of Regulation: Profit and Price Regulation of the UK Pharmaceutical Industry after the 1998 Competition Act
1 May 2006
This Briefing discusses, inter alia, the role of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in competition cases affecting the pharmaceutical industry. It does so in the…
Developments in Economic Evaluation in Health Care: A Review of HEED
3 January 2004
Health care decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned with obtaining value for money and therefore with the use of economic evidence, particularly as a criterion for…
Reducing Harm to Patients in the National Health Service. Will the Government’s Compensation Proposals Help?
1 December 2003
The UK government hopes that the proposals in the report of the Department of Health’s Chief Medical Officer “Making Amends” (CMO, 2003) will make its NHS…
GP Commissioning Groups – The Nottingham Experience
1 December 1998
From 1 April 1999 the structure of the Health Services in the United Kingdom will look radically different. In England there will be Primary Care Groups…