Health Economics research projects

Current Health Economics research projects:

• Pharmaceutical companies have provided funding for a project to update and extend the dataset of NICE decisions pioneered in the Devlin and Parkin (2004) paper. This project is being undertaken by David Parkin and Nancy Devlin, in collaboration with the Office for Health Economics and Abacus International. This will ultimately result in a searchable, on-line database.
• The Department of Health is funding a research project to investigate the determinants of patients' choice of health care provider when given a choice of hospital at the point of referral. This research is being undertaken by Nancy Devlin at CHEC in collaboration with RAND Europe and the King's Fund.
• The Department of Health is funding research to examine the basis for a market forces factor adjustment to HRG pricing. This research is being undertaken by David Parkin at CHEC in collaboration with York University and the consulting company Crystal Blue.
• The Moorfields Eye Hospital Trust has funded during the last years Mireia Jofre-Bonet to develop the health economics area in the Moorfields Eye Hospital and to collaborate in incorporating health economics components to eye disease interventions in the developing world lead by the International Eye Health Care Center at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
• Pfizer Ltd. is funding a research project to develop an algorithm to obtain health related utility values, and thus Quality Adjusted Life Years, from physical indicators of sight impairment. The research is being directed by Mireia Jofre-Bonet