The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome data. Introduced in April 2009, it entails the routine collection of patient reported outcomes from all patients undergoing four elective...

Background: The UK Government is proposing to include “burden of illness” in its proposed scheme for the value‐based pricing (VBP) of branded medicines. The VBP consultation document suggests that medicines that tackle diseases associated with high levels of burden of illness will be...

Objectives: The objectives of this research were to identify the cost-effectiveness of health care services at the margin in the Scottish NHS; consider the extent to which the thresholds observed in Scottish NHS decision making are consistent with the threshold being used to make judgements...

Background: Distributions of EQ-5D index values in patient and general populations typically have a non-normal distribution, divided into two distinct groups. It is important to understand to what extent this is determined by the way that the EQ-5D index is constructed rather than by the true...