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Just Released: Health and the Use of Medicines in Wales
3 November 2011
…than elsewhere in the UK. This is explained in large part by a more rapid increase in Wales in prescribing of lower cost medicines, including generics. The report also shows…
New: Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMS Programme
16 April 2012
…the authors note that no discoverable research has been done on how patients or members of the general public interpret the upper and lower endpoints of the EQ-VAS – “best”…
OHE’s 50th Celebration: Publications on Tuberculosis Show Constancy and Change
23 August 2012
…100,000 (slightly lower than in 1998), compared to 83.6 among the people born outside the UK. Continuing concern about TB led to the issuance of NICE guidelines in 2006 (amended…
Tracking Changes in the Causes of Death in England and Wales
25 October 2012
…striking that almost 20% of the decline in mortality during 1971-2007 is the result of lower age-standardised mortality rates for just one cause of death—cardiovascular disease. This is despite an…
OHE Study on Pharmaceutical R&D Costs Released
3 December 2012
…aspects and/or siting trials in lower-cost locations. The promise of the new, gene-based sciences is tremendous. Rapidly evolving R&D technology, however, requires a wide range of expertise and data. In…
New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context
7 February 2013
…intend to achieve efficiency. In middle- and lower-income countries (MLICs), the lack of insurance coverage means that the distorting effect of insurance on prices is avoided. Other factors, however, contribute…
Variations in Outcome and Costs in NHS Hospitals: Recent Report
6 February 2014
…draw an important conclusion with respect to four common surgical procedures in NHS hospitals in England, that “ . . . no general evidence [shows] that hospitals with lower resource…
Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland
4 March 2014
…result of QOF incentives, as well as modest improvement in health outcomes, fewer emergency hospital admissions, lower health care expenditure, and reduced population mortality. In this article, OHE’s Yan Feng…
2014 Annual Lecture: Is Universal Health Care Coverage the Holy Grail?
7 May 2014
…for the creation of the National Health Service. The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage. Yet low and lower middle…