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Public Preferences for Health Gains and Cures: A Discrete Choice Experiment
1 January 2019
Whether or not society values curative therapies more highly (or less highly) than the sum of the iterative improvements that might come from conventional therapy has…
Securing Funds for the Proposed NHS Multi-year Funding: The Feasibility of Using a Hypothecated Tax
1 October 2018
This OHE publication by Nick Timmins, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the Kings Fund, sets out arguments in favour and against. It…
Private Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care: The Economics of Ownership
1 September 2018
This OHE Briefing outlines the NHS ownership debate through the lens of economics. The aim of the Briefing is to improve understanding of how economics can…
Issues Surrounding the Estimation of the Opportunity Cost of Adopting a New Health Care Technology: Areas for Further Research
1 August 2018
This OHE Research paper by Karla Hernandez-Villafuerte, (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ), Bernarda Zamora (OHE) and Adrian Towse (OHE) sets out a research agenda proposing new…
The Impact of New Medicines in the NHS: 70 Years of Innovation
1 August 2018
In 2018, the NHS turns 70. This OHE Consulting Report demonstrates the contribution and impact of medicines to the health economy in the UK throughout the…
Measurement of Medicines Expenditure in the Context of the 2014-18 PPRS
1 August 2018
This OHE Consulting Report reviews “Measurement of Medicines Expenditure in the Context of the 2014-18 PPRS.” The project was funded by the ABPI. For the year…
Establishing a Reasonable Price for an Orphan Drug
1 July 2018
The high cost of drugs for rare diseases (‘orphan drugs’) has generated considerable debate. While there is debate in the economic literature over whether a premium…
The Debate on Indication-Based Pricing in the U.S. and Five Major European Countries
5 January 2018
The notion that the price of a medicine should be linked in some way to value it generates for patients and the health system is generally…
New Methods for Analysing the Distribution of EQ-5D Observations
1 April 2018
This paper reports new methods for analysing the distribution of EQ-5D observations. The Health State Density Index and Health State Density Curve are used to summarise…