Grant-Funded Research
Research Papers are the results of OHE’s grant-funded research programmes intended to promote discussion and provide information prior to publication in a peer reviewed journal
The Effect of an Increase in the Rate of Payment on General Practitioner’s Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
1 November 2011
This paper investigates how the increased rate of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payments implemented on 1 April 2005 affects Scottish general practitioners’ (GPs) intrinsic, extrinsic…
Operationalising Value Based Pricing of Medicines: A Taxonomy of Approaches
1 August 2011
Recent reforms to the National Health Service (NHS) in England include important changes in the regulation of prices for new medicines. From January 2014, the existing…
Is the Aim of the Health Care System to Maximise QALYs? An Investigation of
1 May 2011
The appraisal of health care technologies by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellent (NICE) focuses on cost effectiveness, usually measured in terms of…
Incentives for R&D for New Antimicrobial Drugs
1 April 2011
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming a major global public health threat and has begun to command attention from European and US policy makers. An initial focus…
Managing Poorly Performing Clinicians: The Value of Independent Help
1 March 2011
The UK’s National Clinical Assessment Agency (NCAS) is designed specifically to provide advice on performance issues, on request, to NHS organisations employing or contracting with doctors,…
A Comparison of Alternative Variants of the Lead and Lag Time TTO
12 January 2010
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…
Using QALYs in Cancer: Review of the Methodological Limitations
1 October 2010
Current methods for constructing quality adjusted life year (QALY) measurements may be deficient for cancer patients in three respects: descriptions of health state, valuation of health…