Publications
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…
Incorporating Multiple Criteria in HTA: Methods and Processes
1 March 2011
What a health care system should pay for depends, of course, on the health gain that results. Health technology assessment (HTA) and cost-effectiveness analysis have become…
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,…
Pharmaceutical Pricing in Europe: Is Differential Pricing a Win-Win Solution?
1 February 2011
This paper examines the potentially positive impact of differential pricing in Europe and the overall negative effects of international reference pricing (IRP) measures. The authors point…
The Evolution of HTA in Emerging Markets Health Care Systems: Analysis to Support a Policy Response
1 January 2011
This report examines and makes suggestions for the appropriate use of health technology assessment (HTA) in emerging markets. In particulary, it considers how the stage of development…
Priority Review Vouchers to Encourage Innovation for Neglected Diseases
1 January 2011
Priority Review Vouchers (PRVs) are awarded in the US to companies that gain approval there for a new drug for one of sixteen tropical diseases, under…
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…
Biosimilars: How Much Entry and Price Competition Will Result?
1 December 2010
This publication reports on a seminar intended to encourage further thought about the distinguishing characteristics of the market for biosimilars and the implications of these for…
Science Policy Research: Having an Impact on Policy?
1 December 2010
Professor Ben Martin (Science and Technology Policy Studies at SPRU, University of Sussex) defines science policy research as ’economic, policy, management and organisational studies of science,…