UK: Is Value Based Assessment the New Value Based Pricing?
NICE and Value Based Assessment: An Update By Leela Barham VBA is the new VBP The initial proposals for Value Based Pricing (VBP) have evolved into something very different. Now there is focus on...
View ArticleInnovation Drops Down NICE’s Value Agenda
Innovation as a consideration of value-based pricing decisions will be conspicuous by its absence in future NICE decisions. Omar Ali, a UK formulary development pharmacist and consultant to NICE,...
View ArticleUK: Further Steps Toward Value-Based Assessment
By Leela Barham. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has finally published the formal consultation on value-based assessment (VBA). VBA is the new VBP, incorporating a wider...
View ArticlePricing and Reimbursement in Europe: Where Does Innovation Fit?
By Leela Barham. It was recently said, in reference to the UK’s Value-Based Assessment(VBA) program, that innovation had not been “tried and tested in the pricing context”, which explains the loss of...
View ArticleSanofi Responds to UK’s Value-Based Assessment Plans
By Leela Barham. The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) set out their proposals for value-based assessment (VBA) in March 2014. VBA is what value-based pricing (VBP) has...
View ArticleValue-Based Assessment in the UK: The Industry View
By Leela Barham. In the UK, Value-Based Pricing (VBP) has morphed into Value-Based Assessment (VBA), with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) tasked with taking the loose...
View ArticleValue-Based Assessment in the UK: The Patient View
By Leela Barham. Patients are influential in the UK when it comes to access to medicines: their individual stories are highlighted in the media and the groups that represent them are credited with...
View ArticleUK Postpones Decision on Value-Based Assessment — Again
By Leela Barham. Value-based Pricing (VBP) was first discussed as far back as 2007 by the UK’s consumer authority, the now defunct Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The general concept of VBP was to set...
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