Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of packages of community-based maternal and neonatal health care interventions in low-resource settings is limited to a handful of studies based on primary and secondary data analyses. In addition, data on the household costs and decision-making processes...

This report is a critique of the Centre for Health Economics Research Paper No. 81 (CHERP81), which estimates that the marginal cost of a QALY for the NHS in England in 2008/9 was £12,936. There is much to admire in the approach, detailed analysis, and reporting set out in CHERP81 and we...