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Contracting for Quality in the NHS
1 January 2014
This monograph, based on Professor Maynard’s remarks at the 20th OHE Annual Lecture, explores the critical issue of ensuring the quality of care in the NHS.…
Projecting Expenditure on Medicines in the NHS
4 January 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…
Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
1 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome…
Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS
1 January 2012
This report is based on the deliberations of the OHE Commission on Competition that was assembled in early 2011 “to consider the circumstances where competition between…
Time Trends in NICE HTA Decisions
1 January 2012
According to the 1999 UK Department of Health consultation document, the fundamental purpose of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was to reduce…
Operationalising Value Based Pricing of Medicines: A Taxonomy of Approaches
1 August 2011
Recent reforms to the National Health Service (NHS) in England include important changes in the regulation of prices for new medicines. From January 2014, the existing…
OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics
7 January 2011
Please note: an updated version of this publication is available here. This publication provides both up-to-date statistics and a guide to finding and using health statistics…
Exploring the Interdependency between Public and Charitable Medical Research
1 April 2011
Continuing concern about the fiscal deficit makes it likely that government funding of health and medical research will remain under scrutiny. This OHE Consulting study, commissioned…
The Publicly Funded Vaccines Market in the UK
1 October 2010
This research reviews how vaccines other than for travel or influenza are evaluated, procured and delivered in the UK. It includes observations as to whether and…