Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine a health technology’s value for healthcare decision-making. Attitudes towards HTA vary globally, with some countries using a variety of methods and analyses and others hardly any.
NICE’s Social Value Judgments: A Closer Look at Progress
30 May 2012
Now out as a “FirstView” article in Health Economics, Policy and Law is an important analysis on the inclusion of social value judgments in NICE guidance,…
Time Trends in NICE HTA Decision Making: Setting the Record Straight
21 May 2012
The Daily Mail front page article of 16 May 2012, ‘New cancer drugs held up by the NHS for nine years’ purports to draw, as its…
Overview of the Economics of the Market for Medicines in the UK
29 March 2012
OHE’s Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Economics at City University London. As part of his 2012 activities, he recently gave…
Can lessons from valuing health be useful in valuing development aid?
25 March 2012
Measuring and evaluating the impact of development aid is a perennial challenge. Various approaches have been tried. Since many have been aimed at donor needs and…
Spotlight on OHE: Valuing Spillovers, End-of-Life Decisions and Hospital Outcomes
20 March 2012
OHE’s outside activities in early 2012 focused on spillovers, HTA decision making, and measuring health outcomes.
Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar
16 March 2012
OHE’s invitational lunchtime seminar held March 14th featured the research of Prof Paul Dolan of the LSE on using measures of subjective wellbeing – “happiness” –…
New OHE Report: Time Trends in NICE HTA Decisions
25 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…
NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) routinely publishes details of the evidence and reasoning underpinning its recommendations, including its social value judgments. To…
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…