Publications
The Impact of Health Technology Assessment on Drug Development
3 January 2009
Health technology assessment (HTA) has become a critical basis for pricing and reimbursement decision-making worldwide. In some countries, extensive requirements for data are set out in…
Assessment and Appraisal of Oncology Medicines: NICE’s Approach and International HTA Experience
1 February 2009
Lower usage of cancer medicines in the UK compared to other countries has created questions, including whether the current approach by NICE to assessing cancer medicines…
Compendium of Health Statistics
1 January 2009
The annual OHE Compendium of Health Statistics is the one-stop statistical information source on population and health trends in the UK, and the changing finances and…
QALYs versus Experience: A Perspective from Experimental Economics
1 August 2008
OHE’s 14th Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work integrating insights from…
NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
3 March 2008
OHE established a Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity. It’s overall conclusion was that the collection and use of outcomes measures in the NHS is both practical and essential.
Medical Research: What’s It Worth?
1 November 2008
Understanding the nature, extent and processes involved in the return on investment in medical research has been largely neglected as an area of serious scientific study.…
New Guidelines for Economic Evaluation in Germany and the United Kingdom: Are We Any Closer to Developing International Standards?
1 November 2008
Australia was the first, in 1993, to make economic evaluation an important component of its decisions about reimbursement of drugs. Since then, several jurisdictions have followed…
The Market for Biosimilars: Evolution and Policy Options
1 November 2008
The authors point out that biopharmaceuticals are more complex agents than conventional chemical entities and therefore are more difficult to replicate after patent expiry. Off-patent versions…
Health Care Services and the Single European Market
1 September 2008
In 2008, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care. This followed two 1998 landmark…