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.

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Publication

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…

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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…

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News

Upcoming OHE Seminars: MCDA and R&D Productivity

16 November 2011

Join OHE for two exciting seminars, one on MCDA and the other on shifts in investment in R&D.

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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…

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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…