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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Incorporating Multiple Criteria in HTA: Methods and Processes
1 March 2011
What a health care system should pay for depends, of course, on the health gain that results. Health technology assessment (HTA) and cost-effectiveness analysis have become…
Disease severity and public preferences
4 November 2010
Does including the name of a specific severe disease in preference surveys affect public attitudes toward resource allocation? A recent proof of concept study suggests that…