NICE
Workshop on HTA and Regulatory Review
13 May 2010
Tensions between broad access to new medical technologies and efforts to contain health care costs are perennial. In recent years, this has become evident in the…
Shedding the Pounds: Obesity Management, NICE Guidance and Bariatric Surgery in England
1 November 2010
In December 2006, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance for preventing and managing overweight and obesit. Recommendations are step-wise, starting with…
Assessment and Appraisal of Oncology Medicines: NICE’s Approach and International HTA Experience
1 February 2009
Lower usage of cancer medicines in the UK compared to other countries has created questions, including whether the current approach by NICE to assessing cancer medicines…
What Could be Nicer than NICE?
1 August 2004
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the closest anyone has yet come to fulfilling the economist’s dream of how priority-setting in health care should be…
Developments in Economic Evaluation in Health Care: A Review of HEED
3 January 2004
Health care decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned with obtaining value for money and therefore with the use of economic evidence, particularly as a criterion for…
Surgical Research and Development in the NHS – Promotion, Management and Evaluation
1 July 2000
Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 25 November 1997. Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 25 November 1997. The UK…
Doctors, Economics and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Can they be brought together?
1 January 1999
The topic I have been asked to address, ‘Doctors, Economics and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Can they be Brought Together’, is both difficult and controversial. It is…