Health economist (HTA analyst @ The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) & Research volunteer @ North Yorkshire Healthwatch (Views are my own**)
We’ve teamed up with the @IMI_EHDEN to offer a 2-hour course on 'Applied cost-effectiveness modelling with R'.
It covers:
🔹simple Markov cohort model
🔹incorporating probabilistic sensitivity analysis
🔹health economic simulation modelling with hesim
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We recently published final draft guidance for a new therapy to treat people with an aggressive form of advanced prostate cancer.
This is the first triple therapy to be made available⬇️
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#MensHealthWeek#MensHealthWeek2023
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Fantastic to read Grace's story on the positive impact of this combination treatment that we’ve recommended today.
Hear from our director of medicines evaluation, Helen Knight and find out more about our recommendation⬇️
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Why focusing on COVID deaths undercounts the health harms of the pandemic – new research from HERC researchers
@pmc868 Mara Violato Jack Pollard
@Oxford_NDPH@OxfordMedSci@ConversationEDU
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23% of 2017-20 FDA approvals were refused authorization or not recommended for coverage in other countries due to risk vs. benefit concerns, unclear benefit over existing drugs, or unacceptably high price. Median US cost of those drugs: $115K patient/year. https://t.co/Wn98AaGSwI
The danger is that if we invest too much in developing Al and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.
Today we have published final NICE guidance recommending Paxlovid, Xevudy and RoActemra for routine NHS use as treatments for COVID-19. Find out more: https://t.co/4PvsLkvscd
Great commentary from #thelancet - "Women need to be enabled to lead... " Think this is especially true for women from marginalised backgrounds without a financial safety net who need strong allies to support them along the way. https://t.co/97PtOzVcJO
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Your feedback will be used to help inform and shape the way we work.
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See what the world 🌎 could look like at different levels of warming in the coming decades.
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Black and ethnic minority people are consistently over-represented in Covid-19 hospital cases, severe illness and death. That is why we support the call, led by @RunnymedeTrust, to examine long-standing structural racial inequality as a core issue within the Covid Inquiry.
If you like to start the week with a bit of democracy vs capitalism vs the living world, join @BernieSanders, @martinwolf_ and me for what promises to be a busy conversation - live on #StartTheWeek this Monday morning @BBCRadio4, or later on @BBCSounds. https://t.co/9pKKEyJKhJ
Sunak
Johnson
May
Cameron
Major
Thatcher
Have ALL overseen significant increases in NHS waiting lists.
When will some people realise that the Conservatives could not care less about your health?