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Making Outcome-Based Payment a Reality in the NHS. Phase Two: Practical Considerations
1 December 2021
Outcome-based payment (OBP) is a flexible payment mechanism linking the price the NHS pays for a medicine to the outcomes it achieves in practice for NHS patients. In 2019 we…
Learnings from the Assessments of Entrectinib and Larotrectinib: Health Technology Assessment Challenges Associated with Tumour-Agnostic Therapies
1 January 2022
A paradigm shift is occurring in cancer care with the introduction of tumour-agnostic therapies, for which the indication is defined by the molecular signature of the tumour rather than by…
Diseases of the Prostate
1 September 1995
Cancer < 1 min read|01/09/1995 The majority of men possess little knowledge concerning the prostate gland. Information about the prostate, in particular the potential medical problems, the available treatments, and…
Leukaemia: Towards Control
6 January 1980
Cancer < 1 min read|01/06/1980 Until the end of the 1960s leukaemia killed about 400 children annually in the United Kingdom. Excluding infant deaths (that is, those occurring in the…
Using QALYs in Cancer: Review of the Methodological Limitations
1 October 2010
Current methods for constructing quality adjusted life year (QALY) measurements may be deficient for cancer patients in three respects: descriptions of health state, valuation of health state, and the source…
Achieving World Class Outcomes in Cancer Treatment
1 July 2011
The speaker for the OHE’s 16th Annual Lecture was Sir Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer and End of Life Care in England’s Department of Health. In his presentation,…
Early Diagnosis of Cancer of the Cervix
1 July 1968
Cancer < 1 min read|01/07/1968 ALTHOUGH cervical cancer causes only 1 per cent of female deaths, it is responsible for almost one quarter of all deaths from cancer amongst women…