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OHE responds to the NHS Ten Year Plan
3 July 2025
Professor Graham Cookson responds to the Ten Year Health Plan for England.
OHE statement on 2025 Spending Review
11 June 2025
Professor Graham Cookson responds to Chancellor’s Spending Review announcement boosting NHS spend by 3%.
OHE responds to the Trump administration’s Executive Order on Drug Prices
14 May 2025
Professor Graham Cookson responds to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on drug prices published earlier this week.
OHE to host the Health Economists’ Study Group Summer 2025
6 March 2025
The Health Economists’ Study Group Summer Meeting will run from 30th June – 2nd July 2025.
OHE’s submission to Belgium’s Committee on Health and Equal Opportunities argues value-based pricing delivers a ‘triple-win’
18 December 2024
Professor Cookson argues that value-based pricing would benefit patients and health systems while ensuring ongoing investment in pharmaceutical innovation is incentivised.
New OHE research finds productivity losses from respiratory infections cost UK businesses £44 billion per year
16 December 2024
A new report by the Office of Health Economics, funded and commissioned by Pfizer, finds that short-term respiratory infections are an underestimated drain on employees, businesses, and the economy. In particular, presenteeism (working while ill) causes significant productivity losses.
OHE partners with LSHTM and CMCC to bridge environmental and health economics approaches to the climate health crisis
13 December 2024
A key part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project involves engaging with diverse stakeholders across disciplines, geographies and sectors.
Professors Andrew Briggs and Thomas Pogge announced as the winners of the 2024 OHE Innovation Policy Prize
11 December 2024
This year’s £40,000 OHE Innovation Policy Prize was jointly awarded to Professor Andrew Briggs and Professor Thomas Pogge. Participants were asked to focus on the intersection of climate change…
Office of Health Economics latest research estimates 20 people a day die in unrelieved pain in the UK in the last 3 months of their lives
26 November 2024
OHE published new research today intended to inform the ongoing conversation around assisted dying in England and Wales.