Publications
Innovation in Medicines: Can We Value Progress?
1 August 2010
Summarised in this publication are the main points and conclusions from a discussion facilitated by OHE that focused on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Participants included…
Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their…
Measuring Health Output, Productivity and Equity: Future Challenges
1 January 2010
Why, whether and how to measure health outputs, productivity and equity in the UK was the focus of the OHE’s 15th Annual Lecture, given by Prof…
Access Mechanisms for Orphan Drugs: A Comparative Study of Selected European Countries
1 November 2009
This study compares pricing and reimbursement (P&R) policy for 43 orphan medicinal products (OMPs) across seven EU Member States: France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden…
Why Should Economic Evaluations of Medical Innovations Have a Societal Perspective?
1 October 2009
In this Briefing, five leading European experts in health economics provide a comprehensive international review of changes in health economic evaluation and the reasons for them. …
Forward Together: Complementarity of Public and Charitable Research with Respect to Private Research Spending
9 January 2009
The debate continues as to whether public/charitable research replaces private research that otherwise would have occurred, or stimulates additional private research, or does neither. Given the…
How Fair? Competition between Independent and NHS Providers to Supply Non-Emergency Hospital Care to NHS Patients in England
1 September 2009
Written while Labour Government policies still were in force, this Briefing clearly and thoroughly examines non-discretionary cost differences between public and independent providers that may have…
Deliberative Processes in Decisions about Health Care Technologies
1 June 2009
In the UK and elsewhere, choices about how to allocate health care resources are guided not only by economic calculations, but also by social value judgments…
American Exceptionalism and American Health Care: Implications for the US Debate on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
1 March 2009
Coined by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville in the early nineteenth century, the term ’American exceptionalism’ refers to the idea that the US is different…