External Publications
Towards a New Understanding of Unmet Medical Need
22 June 2021
In a commentary piece recently published in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, OHE authors discuss how the misalignment in interpretations of the term ‘unmet medical…
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…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?
29 April 2021
A team at the University of York recently published a study in which they sought to generate more reliable evidence to inform the estimation of marginal…
Reconciling MCDA and Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Do We Get the Same Decisions?
14 April 2021
A new paper explores the equivalence of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in adding elements of value to QALY-based cost-effectiveness decision making. It finds…
Ethical Goals and Design Criteria for ‘Fair Access” to Drugs in the US Health Care System
31 March 2021
In the contentious debate around US drug prices, less well understood is: if the price of a drug is a fair, value-based, price, how we assess…
Time to Tackle the Challenges around Combination Therapies for Cancer
29 March 2021
A new Editorial reviews three solutions to the price and value challenge to reimbursing combination products. Higher thresholds are not justifiable. Evidence to support use of…
Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
Why is the measurement of efficiency in health care so important, but equally challenging? And why is it especially so in primary care? This blog provides…
Does Government Funding Increase Public Sector Development of New Medicines?
5 March 2021
A new paper, published last week in Applied Economics, by Dimitrios Kourouklis, Senior Economist at OHE, looks at the question of whether government funding increases public…
The Value of Vaccines in Maintaining Health System Capacity in England
1 October 2021
This report has now been published as an article in Value in Health available here. The NHS is facing unprecedented health system pressure, with a record number…