The CHE Policy Forums reflect the areas of work of the Centre for Health Economics over its 40 year history. We’re pleased to announce that our next CHE Policy Forum will take place on Thursday 10 September 2026, from 2.00… Read More »CHE Policy Forum 2026: Behind the NICE Curtain
The UK government is reportedly preparing to raise NICE’s cost-effectiveness threshold by 25%, as a bargaining chip to avoid US pharmaceutical tariffs. It’s time for health economists to reclaim this space and defend evidence-based decision-making.
Tony Culyer shares a selection of his collected aphorisms for health economists.
Chris Sampson challenges a recent article in The Lancet claiming that NICE recommendations reduce population health.
Free registration for the MEED Research Forum 2024 is now open! This year marks the 5th edition of the MEED Research Forum. For this year’s edition, we’re expanding the scope to include digital, data-driven technologies, and devices (MedTech) alongside diagnostics as in previous years.… Read More »Methods of the Economic Evaluation of Diagnostics (MEED) 2024
Chris reviews the latest issue of AHEHP, with papers on digital health, screening, cost-effectiveness thresholds, and decision modelling.
Chris provides his account of the HESG meeting in Manchester, including his own ‘animal health’ paper, research on the EQ-5D, and some conferencing innovations.
The EQ Valuation Technology (EQ-VT) protocol has been widely used in the valuation of EuroQol instruments, including in over 25 national EQ-5D-5L value sets and, in an adapted form, the valuation of EQ-5D-Y-3L. Adapted versions of it are also currently… Read More »The ‘wheelchair example’ – why it should be dropped from EQ-5D valuation tasks
Our authors provide regular round-ups of the latest peer-reviewed journals. We cover all issues of major health economics journals as well as other notable releases. Visit our journal round-up log to see past editions organised by publication title. If you’d… Read More »Journal round-up: PharmacoEconomics 39(12)
The Right Price: A Value-Based Prescription for Drug Costs Paperback, 272 pages, ISBN: 9780197512876, published 12 October 2021 You can support the blog by buying books through one of our affiliate links. If you’re in the UK, visit our shop on… Read More »Review: The Right Price (Peter Neumann et al)