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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…
Overview of the Economics of the Market for Medicines in the UK
29 March 2012
OHE’s Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Economics at City University London. As part of his 2012 activities, he recently gave a comprehensive lecture on…
Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar
16 March 2012
OHE’s invitational lunchtime seminar held March 14th featured the research of Prof Paul Dolan of the LSE on using measures of subjective wellbeing – “happiness” – as the bases for…
New: Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMS Programme
16 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome data. Currently, data are…
The Tougher the Better: The Effect of GP Performance Thresholds in Scotland
20 April 2012
General Practitioners (GPs) in the NHS are paid based on a mix of factors, including a pay-for-performance element, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which was introduced in 2004. QOF…
Can and Should Value Based Pricing Be Applied to Molecular Diagnostics?
1 May 2012
…affect their health in future. Current pricing and reimbursement systems for diagnostics, however, are not efficient and provide poor incentives for new diagnostic approaches. Prices often are driven by administrative…
OHE Models Future UK Medicines Spending for the ABPI
3 July 2012
The Office of Health Economics has developed and run a model for the ABPI to project UK NHS expenditure on medicines. On 2 July, the ABPI released its projections for…
Spotlight on OHE: Development and Use of Measures of Health Worldwide
16 July 2012
OHE team members have been active in a number of external seminars, conferences and workshops. These included gatherings of academic experts, discussions involving governments, and meetings organised by the pharmaceutical…
OHE Awarded £457K Grant on Measuring Public Preferences for Health States
2 August 2012
OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of Sheffield have been awarded a £457,000 grant from the Policy Research Programme (PRP) of the UK’s National…