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How Widely Are QALYs Used in OECD Countries? A Snapshot of International Practices
11 June 2025
As healthcare systems outside of the US strive to allocate resources efficiently, the use of economic evaluation metrics like Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) has become increasingly common. QALYs are used…
Thomas Allvin
19 March 2024
Thomas Allvin is Executive Director for Strategy and Healthcare Systems at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), where his responsibilities include overall strategic coordination, support to the…
Helen Hayes
2 June 2023
…and supply side factors of health: payment systems, waiting times, healthcare utilisation, the working lives of GPs, and links between labour market outcomes and health. Her recent research interests have…
Combination Therapies: A Step Forward to the Value Attribution Problem
4 January 2023
…therapy (CT) gives rise to several challenges for payers, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies, industry, and health systems. This leads to delays in or lack of access to valuable therapies…
Securing Funds for the Proposed NHS Multi-year Funding: The Feasibility of Using a Hypothecated Tax
1 October 2018
This OHE publication by Nick Timmins, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the Kings Fund, sets out arguments in favour and against. It is based on the…
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…
The burden of LDL-cholesterol-driven atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases
31 March 2026
…for approximately Int$680 billion in annual direct healthcare spending worldwide. When considering indirect costs—that is, foregone economic activity due to morbidity and mortality and as well as informal caregiving costs—ASCVD’s…