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Report: Competition Can Help the NHS – But Proceed with Care
31 January 2012
…care in England. The Office of Health Economics (OHE) has just released the report of its Commission on Competition in the NHS, which recommends careful expansion of competition between providers…
OHE’s 50th Celebration: Publications on Tuberculosis Show Constancy and Change
23 August 2012
…“the overall notification rate for previously untreated TB in England and Wales in 1993 was 9.2 per 100,000 population . . . Highest rates were recorded for people of Indian…
Competition in the NHS: Proceed with Care
16 October 2012
The role of competition in the NHS is again in the news. Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of both the NHS in England and the NHS Commissioning Board, voiced his…
Future UK Medicines Spending: Four Nation Analysis
31 October 2012
…nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales). In July, OHE released projections for medicines spending in the UK NHS for 2012‒2015. We have now completed further projections, also for the…
New OHE Study Compares Decisions by Five HTA Agencies on Oncology Meds
31 January 2013
…in a selection of industrialised countries: Australia, Canada, France, Scotland, and the United Kingdom (England and Wales). The aims of the study are to identify the key determinants of decisions…
Prof Maynard on Ensuring Quality in the NHS: Annual Lecture
18 July 2013
Following allegations of seriously substandard care, the Secretary of State for Health in England announced, in June 2010, that a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust would…
Critique of Research Proposing to Lower NICE’s Cost-per-QALY Threshold to £12,936
2 December 2013
…spending and mortality across Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) throughout England during the 2008–09 financial year. The OHE has just published an Occasional Paper[1] by Barnsley et al that counters the…
OHE at HESG: Value-based Assessment in the UK; Developing the EQ-5D-5L
23 January 2014
OHE’s contributions focused on approaches to implementing UK value-based assessment and the details of creating an EQ-5D-5L value set for England. The Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG), based in the…
Variations in Outcome and Costs in NHS Hospitals: Recent Report
6 February 2014
…draw an important conclusion with respect to four common surgical procedures in NHS hospitals in England, that “ . . . no general evidence [shows] that hospitals with lower resource…