Search results for: Health Policy and Regulation

Real-World Evidence: Current Best Practice for Reimbursement Decision-Making

15 May 2023

…and synthesises best practices for the generation and use of RWE drawn from highly cited academic papers and published by well-established Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies Our recommendations focus on…

Adult vaccination programmes deliver socio-economic benefits up to 19 times initial investment, according to new report

18 April 2024

…at the delivery of vaccine programmes in countries that represent a range of healthcare systems, demographics, and vaccine schedules – Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Thailand,…

OHE’s Director of Research, Professor Nancy Devlin, to Take up New Role at the University of Melbourne

19 September 2018

…and Director of the Centre of Health Policy in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. The Centre of Health Policy comprises research units in Demography and Ageing; Evaluation…

Managed Care – An Option for the German Health Care System?

1 April 1998

Caught between rising expenditure, suspected room for improved efficiency and dwindling availability of public funds, Germany’s health care system is now in the forefront of public debate. In 1989 and…

Limits to Using QALYs in Cancer

3 August 2010

…ill health and healthy individuals’ perceptions of their own abilities to adapt. Overall, using the general public to value health states may overvalue interventions aimed at achieving perfect health and undervalue those…

OHE at ISPOR’s 20th Annual European Congress: Presentations

…whether society is willing to pay more for cancer prevention and treatment than for other types of health care. It reported selected highlights from Koonal’s article in the ‘Value and…

Theory and Evidence on Cost Sharing in Health Care: An Economic Perspective

1 December 1997

Faced with the growing pressures on health care budgets, policy makers around the world have turned to different forms of direct charging for health services. However, because it is rare…

Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS

1 January 2012

…possessed experience and expertise in competition/regulation economics, NHS economics, health policy, NHS management, and health care provision. Their views on competition in the NHS were divergent, meaning that the conclusions…

An Analysis of NICE’s Optimised Decisions from 2015 to 2024

1 May 2025

…scores below 25%. Between 2020 and 2022, these figures were 56% and 25%, and between 2015 and 2019, they were 65% and 35%. Figure 1 presents a visual representation of…