Value, Affordability, and Decision Making

Efficient decisions about allocating health care budgets require assessment of the effects of health care interventions and the value for money they provide. Decision-making processes leading to funding decisions should be structured and evidence-based.

Koonal Shah
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Valuing Health at the End of Life: Public Preferences

13 October 2011

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…

Profs Adrian Towse and Nancy Devlin
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Join OHE at ISPOR: MCDA, Risk Sharing and Value-Based Pricing

4 October 2011

Join OHE at ISPOR to discuss multiple criteria decision analysis, value based pricing, risk sharing, post-approval data collection and other key topics in HTA and health…

Is the Aim of Health Care Systems to Maximise QALYs?
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QALYs v. Other Criteria in NHS Decisions

17 May 2011

Just released is an OHE Research Paper that examines whether and how decisions about allocating resources for health care differ across the NHS and, particularly, in…

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Incorporating Multiple Criteria in HTA

19 April 2011

This OHE publication is intended to inform and stimulate debate about the way different sorts of evidence and considerations are taken into account in decisions about…

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Value-Based Pricing: OHE Comments

23 March 2011

In December 2010, the UK Department of Health released a consultation document to elicit comments on ‘proposals for a new value-based system of pricing medicines which…

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Critical Review of the Quality and Competition Measures and Identification Strategies Used in Health Care Studies

1 December 2011

Prepared as background for the OHE Commission on Competition, this paper provides an overview of the published literature detailing the links between quality and competition in health…

Prof Adrian Towse
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Update: Value-Based Pricing in the UK

11 January 2011

Value-based pricing for new medicines, proposed as part of UK health care reform, would create a QALY-plus approach for drugs approved starting 1 January 2014. For…

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Willingness to Pay and Publicly Funded Health Care: Contradiction in Terms?

1 November 2011

Because health care resources always are scarce, decisions about what (and what not) to pay for cannot be avoided. Deciding how to value health and aspects of…

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Is the Aim of the Health Care System to Maximise QALYs? An Investigation of

1 May 2011

The appraisal of health care technologies by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellent (NICE) focuses on cost effectiveness, usually measured in terms of…