Research Papers
Inconsistent Use of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
12 December 2013
This study finds an apparent mismatch in the decision making approaches of the SMC and the NHS Boards. OHE today released a Research Paper on the…
NICE Decisions: Cost-effectiveness is the Most Significant Predictor
21 November 2013
Using data for 1999-2011, this thorough analysis explores what has most influenced NICE’s decisions and whether this has changed. Established in 1999, the National Institute for…
Measuring the Relationship Between Health and Subjective Well-being
24 July 2013
Significantly increases of wealth and health in the Western world over the past 50 years do not appear to have produced an equivalent increase in societal…
Exploring the Link Between Health and Wealth in Government Decision Making
16 May 2013
Traditionally, decision makers both within and outside the health sector have thought of the value of health interventions primarily in terms of reduced morbidity or mortality.…
Valuing Orphan Medicines Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
7 May 2013
OHE has just released a research paper that describes an experimental study intended to test whether and how a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach can be…
OHE Develops New, Bottom-Up Model for Forecasting UK Medicines Expenditure
3 April 2013
Medicines account for less than 10% of total NHS expenditure in the UK. Because spending on medicines is easy to separate out, however, this sector continues…
Does Free Personal Care for the Elderly Reduce Informal Caregiving?
25 February 2013
Debates about whether to increase state assistance to the elderly have included concerns that this could reduce the amount of care from such personal caregivers, producing…
New Pilot Study: Capturing Public Preferences about Health Care Priorities
16 January 2013
The proposals from the UK Department of Health (DH) for value based pricing (VBP) include a process whereby higher prices would be granted to medicines that…
New Findings: Public Attitudes Towards End-of-Life Treatment in England and Wales
7 December 2012
In 2009, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice that its Appraisal Committees are to consider when assessing treatments that…