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Sociol Health Illn
January 2025
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) was established a quarter of a century ago in 1999 to regulate the cost-effectiveness of pharmaceuticals (and other health technologies) for the NHS. Drawing on medical sociology theories of corporate bias, neoliberalism, pluralism/polycentricity and regulatory capture, the purpose of this article is to examine the applicability of those theories to NICE as a key regulatory agency in the UK health system. Based on approximately 7 years of documentary research, interviews with expert informants and observations of NICE-related meetings, this paper focuses particularly on NICE's relationship with the interests of the pharmaceutical industry compared with other stakeholder interests at the meso-organisational level.
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December 2024
Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA; Delta Hat Limited, Nottingham, UK.
Objectives: Between 2015 and 2017, 41% of NICE cancer single technology appraisal (STA) decisions relied upon immature survival data. This occurs when clinical trials that form the evidence base in support of new or existing technologies suffer from limited follow-up. During this period, NICE did not negatively recommend any cancer technologies that used immature data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet
January 2025
Centre for Health System Sustainability, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Background: Health systems experience difficult trade-offs when paying for new drugs. In England, funding recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for new drugs might generate health gains, but inevitably result in forgone health as the funds cannot be used for alternative treatments and services. We aimed to evaluate the population-health impact of NICE recommendations for new drugs during 2000-20.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Ment Health
November 2024
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Background: Self-harm is a major health issue resulting in high societal costs. Few psychological and psychosocial interventions have shown effectiveness in reducing repeat self-harm.
Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions that have shown evidence of effectiveness in adults and CYP (children and young people) who have self-harmed.
Pharmacoeconomics
December 2024
Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Ardudwy, Normal Site, Holyhead Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2PZ, UK.
Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) may approve health technologies on condition of more evidence generated only in research (OiR) or only with research (OwR). NICE specifies the information needed to comply with its request, although it may not necessarily guarantee good quality and timely evidence for re-appraisal, before reaching a final decision.
Aim: This study aimed to critically appraise the methods, quality and risk of bias of evidence generated in response to NICE OiR and OwR technology appraisal (TA) and highly specialised technologies (HSTs) recommendations.
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