York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC)

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UK Research and Innovation is now accepting Expressions of Interest for the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize, offering a share of £1 million. Contact us to find out more about how we can support your bid for the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize: www.yhec.co.uk/contact-us/

#AgenticAI #InnovationFunding #UKRI

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Are you heading to Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber’s West Yorkshire HealthTech event?

YHEC are there at Leeds United, Elland Road today! Meet Project Director, Robert Malcolm, and Research Consultant, Maisie Green, to discuss the opportunities and challenges shaping the HealthTech landscape.

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We're excited to announce that YHEC's Melissa Pegg will be heading to #ISPOREurope 2025 to drive crucial conversations around environmental sustainability in healthcare. Melissa will lead two issues panels on this topic at ISPOR. Catch her there!

Read more: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/how...

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What are the causes of NHS imaging backlogs and what solutions could help address them?

YHEC Senior Research Consultant, Rachael MacDonald, will be a panellist at the 13th NHS Radiology and Imaging Conference, joining other experts to discuss the key challenges.

www.convenzis.co.uk/events/13th-...

The following quote is visible by Andria Joseph (YHEC Project Director): "AI is only as powerful as the data that informs it. It's important to remember that the real value lies in the quality and richness of the data, as well as its relevance to patients' lived experiences. Our continued focus should be on collecting, interpreting and using that data responsibly and meaningfully."

The expanding role of AI in developing clinical outcome assessments was a theme at the ISOQOL conference. While AI offers possibilities, YHEC's Andria Joseph offers key insights on collecting, interpreting and using the underlying data responsibly.

Get in touch: yhec.co.uk/contact-us/.

#ISOQOL2025

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Can an innovative implant offer better value for money in reflux disease treatment?

YHEC’s Sam Harper and Stuart Mealing have co-authored a study published in BMC Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

🔗 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#HealthEconomics #CostEffectiveness #GERD

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YHEC would like to welcome Charlotte Ahmadu, who joins us as Senior Research Consultant. Welcome, Charlotte!

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Looking for reliable resources in health economics and evidence synthesis? We’ve launched the YHEC Resources Hub, your go-to space for sample economic models, worked examples, insightful blogs, publications and our glossary of essential terminology.

Explore the hub: www.yhec.co.uk/resources-an...

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A new systematic review and meta-analysis, co-authored by the YHEC team, examines the real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab for preventing respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infections in infants.

Read more: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

#RSV #EvidenceSynthesis

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💷 Should NICE revisit its cost-effectiveness threshold? Or is the current £20k-£30k per QALY still fit for purpose?

Read our latest blog on what the threshold really means and why debate about changing it has intensified: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/the...

#HealthEconomics #CostEffectiveness #HTA

How do you incorporate health equity into economic evaluation? One option is distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA). YHEC's Robert Malcolm explains what DCEA is and how it can be critical for health technology assessment.

Contact us: www.yhec.co.uk/contact-us/

#ISPOREurope #DCEA

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With the news that the NHS is launching a new online hospital, virtual wards are a hot topic for value assessment. YHEC has published several papers and reports: www.yhec.co.uk/resources-an...
Read insights from YHEC's Nick Hex: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/how...

#VirtualWards #HealthEconomics

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YHEC would like to welcome Emre Dixon, who joins us as Research Consultant. Welcome, Emre!

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💊 New publication alert! YHEC’s Amy Dymond and William Green are co-authors of a new article. The study evaluates the economic impact of self-care with ibuprofen for three conditions: dysmenorrhoea, migraine and acute rhinosinusitis.

Read more: resource-allocation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Is true health equity possible without factoring it into economic evaluation? In his latest blog, Rob Malcolm (YHEC Project Director) explains how we can help bring equity and economic evaluation hand-in-hand. Read more: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/put...

#ISPOREurope #HealthEquity #EconomicEvaluation

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YHEC would like to welcome Emilia Rivett-Jones, who joins us as Research Assistant. Welcome, Emilia!

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Happy World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day! 🌍💡

As a health economic consultancy, our work is driven by robust evidence. This year's theme, "Collaborative Knowledge Communication", captures the essence of what we do. Contact us today at: yhec@york.ac.uk

#WorldEBHCDay #EBHC #EvidenceBasedHealthcare

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YHEC would like to welcome Rebecca Rosi, who joins us as Research Consultant. Welcome, Rebecca!

YHEC has delivered 16 training courses in 2025, including sessions on meta-analysis, HTA and environmental sustainability and early economic modelling.

Our programme for 2025 is now over, but you can contact the team for bespoke training.

Visit our website: www.yhec.co.uk/what-we-do/b...

The ISOQOL 32nd Annual Conference - York Health Economics Consortium YHEC is excited to participate in the upcoming ISOQOL conference, a key event for quality-of-life research. We're eager to connect with fellow researchers, share our latest findings, and engage in sti...

Just one week until ISOQOL 2025 kicks off in Milwaukee.

Don't miss the chance to attend our workshops about health economics and outcome research methods in value based healthcare and the use of structured expert elicitation in outcomes research: www.yhec.co.uk/event/the-in...

Structured expert elicitation (SEE) is everywhere at the moment in health economics, health technology assessment, and stakeholder engagement – but what is it really? In this short video, YHEC's Andria Joseph breaks it down in simple terms.

Find out more from Andria at #ISOQOL and #ISPOREurope

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YHEC would like to welcome Elisha Witcomb, who joins us as Research Consultant. Welcome, Elisha!

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🎯 Meet the Team: Robert Malcolm, Project Director at YHEC

Curious about what it’s like to forge a career in health economics, digital health or population health evaluation? In our latest blog, we sit down with Robert Malcolm.
🔗 Read the full interview: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/mee...

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A new article, co-authored by YHEC's Melissa Pegg, has been published.

The paper highlights a multistakeholder initiative which aims to integrate environmental impact alongside traditional HTA dimensions such as cost and clinical effectiveness.

Read more: www.yhec.co.uk/resources-an...

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🏥 The NIHR i4i Product Development Awards are open (deadline: 03 December 2025).

YHEC can help strengthen your proposal with the economic, clinical and strategic evidence needed for adoption.

💡 Let’s talk: www.yhec.co.uk/contact-us/

A new paper in PharmacoEconomics - Open by YHEC’s Sarah Medland and Stuart Mealing uses an individual patient-level simulation model to assess the impact of automated vs manual red blood cell exchange in sickle cell disease.

Learn more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SickleCellDisease

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The patient voice isn’t a tick-box - it’s added-value evidence. In her YHEC blog, Andria Joseph looks at the role of patient-reported outcomes in rare diseases: www.yhec.co.uk/resource/pat...

Join us at ISOQOL 2025 and ISPOR Europe 2025 for further discussions and insights.

#ISOQOL #ISPOREurope

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📰 Our latest newsletter is out!

Catch up on what’s new at YHEC - from recent publications and upcoming training courses to the latest insights from our team of health economics and evidence synthesis experts.

👉 Read the latest issue here: createsend.com/t/y-B6DC1FA0...

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How do international payers view surrogate endpoints in nephrology? We have the details.

YHEC's Stuart Mealing attended an international payer workshop in Amsterdam last week to discuss the use of surrogate endpoints from nephrology trials in HTA.

Find out what he said about the workshop below.

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Cost-effective solutions for diabetes care: YHEC Project Director, Robert Malcolm, offered insights on real-world evidence as part of an expert panel at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

Contact us to find out more about YHEC's work in this important space: yhec.co.uk/contact-us/