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The Digitalisation of Health Care During COVID-19: Consideration of the Long-Term Consequences
28 April 2020
…the spread of the virus. While visiting the doctor is technically permitted under these rules, overstretched health systems, along with the need to minimise risk of contagion, means that gaining…
Are Discount Rates Used in UK Vaccine Economic Evaluations Jeopardising Investment in Immunisation Programmes?
4 August 2020
…Internationally, policymakers and academics have long debated discounting in the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions in general (Brouwer et al., 2005; Claxton et al., 2011)and vaccines specifically (Tasset et al.,…
Assessing the Productivity Value of Vaccines in Health Technology Assessment: Worth a Shot?
17 September 2020
…the methods used by NICE to assess non-vaccine health interventions. Based on the current approach, the objective of healthcare decision makers is to maximise the amount of health in the…
Bridging the Gap: Pathways for Regulatory and Health Technology Assessment of Histology Independent Cancer Treatments
8 January 2021
…the body. Despite generating a paradigm shift these therapies are faced with multiple challenges to fit the regulatory and health technology assessment frameworks used by healthcare decision-makers. Yet, with an…
Let’s talk about (health) inequalities
1 April 2022
…a holistic approach (going beyond the healthcare system) is essential. The need for governance arrangements involving health and non-health sectors has already been emphasised by the Marmot Review ‘Fair Societies,…
Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Discrete Choice Experiments
4 May 2022
…in Health, 25(5), 685–694. Related research Mott, D. J. (2018). Incorporating Quantitative Patient Preference Data into Healthcare Decision Making Processes: Is HTA Falling Behind? The Patient, 11(3), 249–252. Mott, D….
Coronary Heart Disease: The Need for Action
1 February 1990
…the human immunodeficiency virus and its fatal consequence, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. This development does not, however, alter the fact that CHD remains the nation’s most substantial contemporary healthcare problem….
What Could be Nicer than NICE?
1 August 2004
…what practical person, outside the rarified world of academic health economics, would waste time and energy pursuing the elusive will-o’-the-wisp of creating for the NHS a comprehensive framework for healthcare…
Personalised Medicine: is it an Oil-Rush or Oil-Spill?
1 May 2020
…potentially not only benefits the patient but also improves the efficiency of the healthcare system. This comes at the cost of adapting the regulatory environment, so it is fit for…