Publications
The Future of Global Health Procurement: Issues around Pricing Transparency
1 March 2019
This OHE Research Paper focuses on the role that price transparency may play in the efficient and effective procurement of medicines by Middle and Low Income…
Early Experience with Health Technology Assessment of Gene Therapies in the United States: Pricing and Paying for Cures
1 February 2019
Gene therapies, which can provide cures for diseases, are a new area of research for ICER. Some are within two to three years of becoming available…
Making Outcome-Based Payment a Reality in the NHS
2 January 2019
This report explores the feasibility of introducing one type of flexible payment mechanism – outcome-based payment (OBP) – for cancer medicines into the NHS in England. OBP could help to accelerate patient access to some new medicines and ensure close monitoring of real-world patient benefit.
Can a Strong Economic Case Be Made for Investing in the NHS?
1 January 2019
Debate about funding has highlighted the difficulty of persuading sceptics that the NHS is a good use of public finance. There is a widely held view…
Public Preferences for Health Gains and Cures: A Discrete Choice Experiment
1 January 2019
Whether or not society values curative therapies more highly (or less highly) than the sum of the iterative improvements that might come from conventional therapy has…
Multi-Indication Pricing (MIP): Practical Solutions and Steps to Move Forward
1 December 2018
This report provides a detailed summary of a panel discussion held at the HTAi 2017 annual meeting in Rome on the current approaches to MIP in…
Legal Barriers to the Better Use of Health Data to Deliver Pharmaceutical Innovation
1 December 2018
The proliferation of health data in our ever more digitalised world of health care creates opportunities for better research around – and delivery of – pharmaceutical…
2017 OHE Annual Report to the Charity Commission
1 November 2018
This is OHE’s report to the Charity Commission for England and Wales for the year 2017, OHE’s first since becoming a registered charity in December 2016.…
Securing Funds for the Proposed NHS Multi-year Funding: The Feasibility of Using a Hypothecated Tax
1 October 2018
This OHE publication by Nick Timmins, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the Kings Fund, sets out arguments in favour and against. It…