Nancy Devlin

Department of Economics

City University

Northampton Square

London EC1 V OHB

United Kingdom

Tel. ++44 (0) 20 7040 8518

Fax. ++44 (0) 20 7040 8580

Email: n.j.devlin@city.ac.uk

Personal website: http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/n.j.devlin/

 

External roles

Senior Associate, King’s Fund, London www.kingsfund.org.uk/about_us/whos_who/nancy_devlin.html

 

Advisor to/Associate of the Economics Network, Higher Education Academy. www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/

 

Director of Health Economics education (HEe) www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/health/

 

Member of the Executive, EuroQol Group, Rotterdam. www.euroqol.org/

 

During 2008 Nancy will be the Distinguished Visitor at Auckland University, New Zealand, where she will give a series of lectures and research presentations.

 

Work in progress

TTO valuation of health states ‘worse than dead’: protocol development and empirical testing. Research funded by the EuroQol Foundation (2007-8).

 

The NHS cost effectiveness threshold implicit in local NHS investment and disinvestment decisions. Research funded by National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence R&D (2007-8).

 

How do patients choose and how do hospitals respond? Research funded by NIHR (2007-10)

 

A note on the structure of utility space in time and health and implications for Cost Utility Analysis (unfunded work).

 

Selected recent publications

Journal articles

Buckingham, K, Devlin, N. (2006) A theoretical framework for TTO valuations of health. Health Economics 5(10) 15 (10) 1149-54.

 

Parkin, D., Devlin, N. (2006) Is there a case for using visual analogue scale valuations in Cost utility Analysis? Health Economics 15:653-664

 

Dakin H., Devlin, N., Odeyemi I. (2006) Yes, no or ‘yes, but…’: A multinomial model of NICE decision-making. Health Policy 77:352-367.

 

Burge P, Devlin N, Appleby J, Rohr C, Grant J. (2005) Do patients prefer quicker treatment? A discrete choice analysis of patients' stated preferences in the London Patient Choice Project. Journal of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 3(4): 183-194. 

 

Devlin, N., Parkin, D. (2004) Does NICE have a cost effectiveness threshold and what other factors influence its decisions? A binary choice analysis. Health Economics 13(5): 437-52.

 

Devlin, N., Hansen, P., Kind, P., Williams, A. (2003) Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents’ health state valuations – a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs. Health Economics 12(7): 529-544.

 

Reports

Burge, P, Devlin, N, Appleby J, Gallo F, Nason E, Ling T. (2006) Understanding patients’ choices at the point of referral. Technical report TR359-DOH, Cambridge: RAND Europe.

 

Books

Morris S, Devlin N, Parkin D. (2007) Economic analysis in health care. Wiley.

 

Szende, A., Oppe, M., Devlin, N. (2007) EQ-5D valuation sets: an inventory, comparative review and users' guide.  Rotterdam: EuroQol Foundation. Springer.