Publications

Post launch studies

Economic Post-Launch Studies: Matching the Desirable with the Feasible

1 September 2006

Whilst companies routinely conduct post-marketing surveillance studies to collect data on adverse events, the focus of this report is on ‘post-launch’ studies conducted to collect information…

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The Faces of Regulation: Profit and Price Regulation of the UK Pharmaceutical Industry after the 1998 Competition Act

1 May 2006

This Briefing discusses, inter alia, the role of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in competition cases affecting the pharmaceutical industry. It does so in the…

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Health Systems Performance Assessment

1 April 2006

Annual lecture by Christopher Murray, who speaks in the UK about the work on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) at the World Health Organization. He gives…

Many faces 2005

The Many Faces of Innovation

2 January 2005

The Office of Health Economics (OHE) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (registered number 09848965) and its registered office is at…

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Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health: Understanding the Lifetime Impacts

1 January 2005

I suspect most of us who have had anything to do with the issues surrounding young people’s mental health believe that resolving issues in early life…

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Activity Based Funding for Hospitals: English Policy, International Experience

1 October 2004

The material in this book is drawn from presentations and discussions at the conference “New Financial Flows for NHS Hospitals – Introducing Payment by Results in…

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What Could be Nicer than NICE?

1 August 2004

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the closest anyone has yet come to fulfilling the economist’s dream of how priority-setting in health care should be…

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How Much Should We Spend on the NHS?

1 July 2004

Prior to the 2002 Spending Review Derek Wanless was asked by the Chancellor of The Exchequer to assess the ’financial and other resources required to ensure…

Ageing

The Impact of Ageing on Health Care Expenditures: Impending Crisis, or Misguided Concern?

1 June 2004

The past few decades have seen an accelerating increase in the numbers and proportion of older people in the populations of many countries. Population ageing will…