Economic Evaluation seminar - What Costs and Benefits Should be Counted in Health Technology Assessments and Guidelines? The NICE Perspective
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Abstract:
“Perspective” determines what costs and outcomes are counted in value-for-money assessments of healthcare. A health sector perspective weighs health benefits against health sector costs, whereas a societal perspective can include effects on other sectors, such as education or economic productivity. There are intuitive arguments for counting wider societal effects in healthcare evaluations as a way of maximizing social welfare across public sector expenditure. However, there are also methodological, practical, and ethical issues that arise when routinely counting wider societal effects. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence currently uses a health sector perspective in its value-for-money assessments but with flexibility to consider wider societal effects when they are especially relevant to the value of a health intervention.
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About the speaker
Koonal Shah
Koonal Shah is an Associate Director in the Science Policy and Research team at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). His portfolio includes overseeing the NICE Listens deliberative public engagement programme, helping to establish a process for modular updates to NICE’s manuals, and leading NICE’s work to reduce the environmental impact of the health and care system.
Before joining NICE, Koonal spent 11 years at the Office of Health Economics (OHE). He also worked at PHMR, a private-sector consultancy.
Koonal has a PhD in health economics and decision science from the University of Sheffield, an MSc (with distinction) in health economics from the University of York, and a BA in economics and philosophy from the University of Nottingham. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), University of Sheffield, and an invited guest lecturer at the University of Sheffield, University College London, and King’s College London.
Koonal is a member of the EuroQol Group. He previously served on the EuroQol Executive Committee and co-chaired the EuroQol Scientific Plenary Meeting (an annual conference).