Publications
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
1 June 2016
This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Professor Luigi Siciliani on waiting time policies in the health sector from an international perspective, and highlights…
A Review of NICE Methods Across Health Technology Assessment Programmes: Differences, Justifications and Implications
1 May 2016
NICE’s decisions exert an influence on the allocation of fixed NHS budgets, but decisions for different types of health interventions (for example drugs and devices) are…
Shaping the Research Agenda to Estimate Cost-effectiveness Thresholds for Decision Making
4 January 2016
This report details the views of a selection of experts in the fields of health and welfare economics on the cost-effectiveness threshold used by the National…
Assessing Trends in SMC Advice Decisions (October 2009- September 2015)
1 February 2016
The objective of this OHE Consulting Report was to outline trends in Scottish Medicines Committee (SMC) advice decisions for medicines for the period October 2009 to…
Valuing Health-Related Quality of Life: An EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England
1 January 2016
This paper reports the methods and findings from the EQ-5D-5L value set for England study. The value set is derived from the stated preference data of…
New Methods for Modelling EQ-5D-5L Value Sets: An Application to English Data
1 January 2016
This paper provides details of how the EQ-5D-5L value set was derived, focusing on the methods used to model the stated preference data. Results for different…
Cost-per-QALY in the US and Britain: Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t
1 December 2015
Professor Weinstein presents a comprehensive analysis of the differences in attitudes between the US and the UK around how cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) fits into the health…
Model of Behaviour within Fuzzy Budget Constraints
1 December 2015
This paper presents a model to capture the behaviour of health sector decision makers when making resource allocation decisions on the level and mix of healthcare…
Dementia: The R&D Landscape
1 November 2015
This OHE Research Paper provides an overview of the current dementia R&D landscape. The research was undertaken by OHE for Imperial College and the UK Department of Health.