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How Fair? Competition in the NHS
25 March 2010
Competition within the NHS for non-emergency hospital care no longer adjusts for non-discretionary costs unique to independent providers. Should it? Jon Sussex Since 2002, the UK government has actively…
PROMs and Choice in the NHS
30 March 2010
PROMs are intended to fill a critical gap in understanding the impact of health care on the patient’s quality of life. OHE is closely involved in PROMs research and policy…
NICE’s new cost-effectiveness threshold: Significance, consequences, and unanswered questions
25 February 2026
Overview Starting in April 2026, NICE will raise its cost-effectiveness threshold for the first time in 20 years. By its own estimates, the shift from £20,000-£30,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) to…
OHE responds to the Trump administration’s Executive Order on Drug Prices
14 May 2025
…international value assessment from countries with very different health care systems and opportunity costs. Reference pricing also overlooks the issue of confidential price negotiations between the pharmaceutical industry and individual…
The Case of Risperidone: Assessing the Life-cycle Value of Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Sweden and the UK
1 July 2019
…Institute for Health Economics (IHE) in Sweden shows that health systems and societies in general (consumers) were able to appropriate most of the life-cycle value (surplus) generated by SGAs in…
The Economics of Health Care
1 January 2007
For over a decade, the OHE website included a popular interactive e-source, The Economics of Health Care, focusing on the UK and aimed at post-16 students of economic courses. Because…
Pharmaceuticals in seven nations
1 May 1985
Great Britain at the suggestion of and in close collaboration with Medizinisch Pharmazeutische Studiengesellschaft (MPS) in the Federal Republic of Germany, OHE is funded entirely by the Association of the…
New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes
18 October 2011
A new discussion paper from the Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, reports first results from a programme of collaborative research by CHE, Nancy Devlin of the OHE,…
Report: Competition Can Help the NHS – But Proceed with Care
31 January 2012
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 of NHS-funded health…