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Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Public Health Policy

Background:

  • Economic evaluation of health technologies in the UK historically had limited impact.
  • The establishment of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 1999 created a formal context for economic evaluation in healthcare decision-making.
  • NICE's objective is to maximize health gains (Quality-Adjusted Life Years - QALYs) within a fixed UK National Health Service (NHS) budget.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the development and impact of economic evaluation in UK health technology decision-making.
  • To examine the operational characteristics of NICE and its use of economic evaluation.
  • To identify key issues and suggest improvements for broader and more consistent application of economic evaluation in healthcare.

Main Methods:

  • Review of the development of economic evaluation in the UK.
  • Analysis of NICE's methodologies and decision-making processes.
  • Identification of concerns regarding cost-effectiveness thresholds and guidance implementation.
  • Discussion of challenges for health economists in applying sophisticated analyses within NHS constraints.

Main Results:

  • NICE has become a central body for economic evaluation, focusing on maximizing QALYs within budget limits.
  • Key concerns include the basis for NICE's cost-effectiveness thresholds and the inconsistent implementation of its guidance.
  • There is a gap between sophisticated academic economic analyses and the practical realities of NHS budgeting and disinvestment.

Conclusions:

  • While NICE exemplifies the use of economic evaluation, its processes are not perfect and not representative of the entire NHS.
  • Addressing the conceptual basis of cost-effectiveness thresholds and ensuring empirical evidence is crucial.
  • Greater engagement between health economists, the public, and the NHS is needed to improve the relevance and application of economic evaluation.
  • The NHS needs greater budgetary flexibility to enable disinvestment from less effective technologies to fund more cost-effective ones.