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Assessment of the Impact of Orphan Medicinal Products on the European Economy and Society

1 November 2010

This report examines the effect of the European Union’s 1999 Regulation on Orphan Medicinal Products (OMPs) on the European economy and society.  This study collected data…

Health Care Services and the Single European Market

1 September 2008

In 2008, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care.  This followed two 1998 landmark…

European Medicines Pricing and Reimbursement: Now and the Future

1 January 2007

Available from Radcliffe publishing: http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=184619184X Published in association with the Office of Health Economics this book is a vital, non-technical guide illuminating recent developments within the…

Health Services in Europe: 1988

1 September 1988

The Office of Health Economics first drew attention to the fact that every country in Europe had some form of prepaid national health care scheme in…

Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing

1 January 1984

In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects…

Ill in Europe

1 October 1982

People pay for some health care themselves out of income and savings. In Britain, out of a total expenditure on health care of all kinds of…

Pharmaceutical Prices: A continental view

1 April 1978

It has not normally been OHE policy to reprint articles which have previously been published elsewhere. However, it seemed desirable to make an exception for this…