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Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there is much that can…
OHE is Launching a New Series to Explore the Latest Attempts to Reduce the Cost of US Healthcare
7 September 2021
US healthcare reform is frequently on the US presidential policy agenda. Following the lead from his predecessors, President Obama’s controversial health insurance reform and President Trump’s public acknowledgement for the…
The CBO Doesn’t Understand Investors
13 September 2021
Our second blog in the OHE H.R. 3 Series discusses how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)’s analysis of H.R.3 does not reflect the reality of biopharmaceutical investing. Our second blog…
Due to the Unprecedented Nature of H.R. 3, the CBO Analysis is Unreliable and Can’t Inform Policymaking
15 September 2021
As we have discussed in the previous blogs in our Series on H.R. 3, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have attempted to estimate the potential effect of H.R. 3 on…
Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Healthcare
1 October 2020
Substantial economic resources are devoted to healthcare across Europe, but there is evidence that a large proportion of these resources are of limited benefit to patients and society. Around 10%…
The Promise of Gene Therapies: Are We Ready?
1 April 2021
In a webinar held on 16 March 2021, Mary Harney, Annie Hubert and Simone Boselli joined OHE’s Adrian Towse to debate the issues surrounding the adoption of gene therapies. In…
Exploring the Financial Sustainability of Gene Therapies
5 January 2021
Gene therapies directly address the underlying cause of disease, and many of them offer short-term treatment regimens. As a result, they could bring transformative benefits to patients by halting disease…
Adult vaccination programmes deliver socio-economic benefits up to 19 times initial investment, according to new report
18 April 2024
‘First-of-its-kind’ study shows that adult immunisation programmes return up to 19 times their initial investment when the full spectrum of benefits is valued The findings highlight the opportunity to ease…
Hospital Concentration and Patient Health Gain
21 September 2014, 11:00pm
…patients’ health after elective primary hip replacement and the severity of ill health before treatment.The study also links PROMs data and NHS’s Hospital Episode Statistics data in England in for…