Search results for: Health Care Systems

New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context

7 February 2013

…countries with comprehensive insurance, the authors discuss the appropriate use of an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) that reflects citizens’ willingness to pay for health gain. They note that current regulatory structures…

OHE This Week: BioWales 2013, UK Medicines Market and EQ-5D in Asia

18 March 2013

19 March: Jon Sussex will be at BioWales 2013 speaking on the health and wider economic benefits of life sciences research. 21 March: Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz will give his updated annual…

2022 Innovation Policy Prize

…of individuals’ willingness–to–pay for a marginal improvement in population health, while a supply–side approach assumes that the ‘threshold’ should reflect the health opportunity cost of reimbursing medicines within a budget constrained health care…

NICE at 25: HTA Methods Guidelines – Evolution, not revolution

1 May 2024

…health inequalities in health technology evaluations. NICE has done some research in the health inequalities space, but NICE’s position does not currently allow for a quantitative modifier for health inequalities…

The Socioeconomic Burden Of Cervical Cancer in the UK: What are the benefits of achieving the WHO elimination target?

24 January 2024

…analysis reveals that cervical cancer’s lifetime cost per case in the UK is a staggering £210,000. This encompasses healthcare system expenses, individual patient costs, and wider societal impacts from morbidity…

International Comparison of Medicines Usage: Quantitative Analysis from a Swedish Perspective

1 May 2015

The OHE undertook an analysis of the uptake of medicines in 13 high income countries. The UK perspective on this was published in November 2014 by the ABPI. OHE has…

Do Financial Incentives Trump Clinical Guidance? Hip Replacement Treatment in England and Scotland

19 May 2015

…went on to explain that since 2005 Scotland and England have followed different healthcare financing policies. Case based payment systems were introduced in England, but not in Scotland. This creates…

Guest post: The Economics of Elevated Hospital Mortality at Weekends

14 July 2015

…for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme (project number 12/128/48). The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those…

Government and Charity Funding of Cancer Research: Public Preferences and Choices

13 October 2015

…government and charity funding of medical research. Just published in Health Research Policy and Systems is a paper examining the views of the UK general public about how a change…