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What price is society willing to pay for new drugs?
12 December 2024 - The purpose of England's NHS is to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation through provision ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2024
What is NICE’s severity modifier?
15 December 2024 - A guide to the severity modifier and how it is leading to more positive recommendations overall from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2024
Should NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds change?
13 December 2024 - We explore the on-going debate around NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds and what the future holds. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2023
A decade of health innovation: the impact of new medicines on patient health and the implications for NICE’s size of benefit multiplier
6 October 2023 - This study aimed to estimate the incremental health benefits of pharmaceutical innovations approved between 2011 and 2021 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2023
Do France, Germany, and Italy agree on the added therapeutic value of medicines?
17 August 2023 - The Health Technology Assessment of medicines is performed separately at the country level with some differences, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2023
NICE’s new methods reflect society’s values
4 February 2023 - The mission of NICE is to get the best care to patients fast, while ensuring value for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Apr 2021
The thorny issue of value alignment: how development-focused health technology assessment can help find win–win situations for patients and health care systems and commercial investors
20 April 2021 - We agree that there is always likely to be some tension between commercial interests and maximising societal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2020
Will COVID-19 vaccines be cost effective—and does it matter?
26 November 2020 - The costs of other pandemic measures mean that covid-19 vaccines will probably turn out to be ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2020
Efficiency ratio and rocketing drug prices: old concerns and new possibilities
23 October 2020 - One of the most significant phenomena in the recent years concerning the pharmaceutical industry and, at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jul 2020
Does cost effectiveness analysis really need to abandon the incremental cost effectiveness ratio to embrace net benefit?
10 July 2020 - The central task of cost-effectiveness analysis is to identify strategies that maximise health within finite budgets. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2020
How can cancer drug prices better match their benefits? Germany offers a cost-saving model
10 July 2020 - After Germany revamped its approach to purchasing medicines a decade ago, the prices negotiated by the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2020
Cost‐effectiveness and financial risks associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
1 May 2020 - The reimbursement of the immune checkpoint inhibitors is challenging. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2020
Why cancelling your private health insurance could have unintended consequences
20 January 2020 - Nick Maconachie and Anna Dimeas have very different views on private health cover. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2020
Pricing of pharmaceuticals is becoming a major challenge for health systems
13 January 2020 - Manufacturers using their market power to maximise profits results in prices that are unjustifiable and unaffordable. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2020
Defining the concept of fair pricing for medicines
13 January 2020 - Suerie Moon and colleagues consider what makes a fair price for both buyers and sellers. ...