Drug Development/R&D

New medicines lead to improved patient outcomes and societal benefits, but R&D is a long and costly process. Ongoing health economics research aims to find the right balance between incentivising manufacturers to innovate and ensuring affordable access for health systems.

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Newly Published Analysis: Dementia: the R&D Landscape

16 November 2015

Just published by the World Dementia Council and OHE is an analysis which sets out the dementia R&D landscape. This analysis was undertaken by OHE for…

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Multi-indication Pricing: Pros, Cons and Applicability to the UK

28 October 2015

Multi-indication pricing (MIP) involves setting a different price for each major indication approved for a medicine. We explore the feasibility of implementing MIP in the UK.

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Future Cases of Dementia among People Born in 2015 & the Dementia Drug Pipeline

6 October 2015

It is estimated that one in three people born in 2015 in the UK may develop dementia, and clinical development success rates for dementia drugs are…

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PriMHE Lecture: Relative Effectiveness and the Impact on Drug Development

28 May 2015

OHE’s Adrian Towse will give a lecture at the Medical University of Vienna on relative effectiveness and the impact on drug development.

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OHE at ISPOR Philadelphia Part 2: Risk Sharing, Medical Breakthroughs, Early Access and Drug Development Costs

12 May 2015

This post is the second of a two part summary of OHE’s scheduled activity at ISPOR Philadelphia 2015.

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OHE Publishes in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Future Expectations of Evidence of Relative Effectiveness in Europe and Comparative Effectiveness in the USA in 2020

15 April 2015

Articles co-authored by Adrian Towse, Martina Garau, Donna Messner, and Penny Mohr exploring future expectations of drug relative effectiveness in Europe and comparative effectiveness in the…

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New Business Models for Antibiotics. What Can We Learn from Other Industries?

7 April 2015

The business model for antibiotics is broken. We looked at other industries facing conceptually similar challenges – particularly when the incentive for R&D is delinked from…

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Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

It is surprisingly hard to measure how long medical research takes. A recently published study by OHE, Brunel and RAND Europe shows a better way to…

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Benefiting Sooner from Medical Research

3 February 2015

Recently published study by OHE, Brunel University, RAND Europe and Kings College London analyses time lags in medical research and where to shorten them.