Economics of Innovation
Optimal innovation balances willingness and ability to pay with the benefits of future R&D. Our wide-ranging programme aims to promote innovation in health care, increase our understanding of its value, and encourage R&D. New models of innovation should streamline development, reduce costs, and speed patient benefit.
Economic Evaluation and Develop Medicines in the Development of Medicines
1 April 1988
In most countries the resources available for health care are increasingly stretched in the face of the competing demands for their use. Therefore health care policy…
Cost and Benefits of Pharmaceutical Research
1 May 1987
These papers are a selection from those prepared for a seminar held jointly by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Office of Health…
What Are My Chances Doctor? – a Review of Clinical Risks
1 November 1986
Half a century ago little attention was paid to the risks associated with medical and surgical treatment. The hazards of sickness itself were so obvious, that…
Crisis in Research
1 April 1986
In 1983 almost £6.6 billion was spent on research and development in the United Kingdom. This sum was five times that recorded in 1972 and even…
Pharmaceuticals in seven nations
1 May 1985
Great Britain at the suggestion of and in close collaboration with Medizinisch Pharmazeutische Studiengesellschaft (MPS) in the Federal Republic of Germany, OHE is funded entirely by…
Politics of Prescribing
1 January 1985
This briefing is based on a lecture given by George Teeling Smith. At present Britain is one of the seven most successful countries in the world…
Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries 1981-82
1 July 1984
Two years ago, the Office of Health Economics published a research paper describing some of the activities of eighteen European pharmaceutical companies in the Developing Countries…
Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing
1 January 1984
In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects…
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Recent Trends, Future Prospects
1 October 1983
Therapeutic progress in recent decades has made a major contribution to reductions in mortality and has extended control to the symptoms of many chronic diseases. Thus…