My personal questioning of the impact of my research career in health economics subsequently led to a series of studies concerning the assessment of impact. That stream of research has emphasised, among other things: the importance of the ‘counterfactual’; that impact was the product of the...

An evaluative framework was developed by the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) for the UK's Department of Health (DH) to assess the benefits from DH-funded R&D. A questionnaire was devised to evaluate research funded by the North Thames National Health Service Executive: it was designed...