HERU External Seminar - Professor Chris McCabe

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HERU External Seminar - Professor Chris McCabe
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Professor McCabe is Professor of Health Economics at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) where he is part of QUB’s contribution to the Belfast City Region Deal supporting economic development in the life sciences sector. He has a joint appointment across the Centre for Public Health in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences and Queen’s Management School. Before joining QUB, Chris was CEO of Institute of Health Economics a not for profit in Alberta, Canada. Chris’s expertise is in HTA and particularly early HTA for life science commercialisation.

Title: Paying for health in drug coverage decisions: why v is not Ok

Abstract: The discussion about the ‘correct’ value for the cost effectiveness threshold for decision makers like NICE, is long running and highly polarized. This seminar brings together work with Paulden, Pandey, O’Mahony and other colleagues, to argue that paying ‘v’ is destructive of social welfare and always will be. Further, the pricing behaviours of manufacturers mean that the policy cost effectiveness threshold to optimize social welfare will be less than k.

Speaker
Professor Chris McCabe, Queens University Belfast
Hosted by
Dr Verity Watson
Venue
Institute of Medical Sciences, Level 7 Conference Room
Contact

Please contact Lesley Innes at HERU for details of attending the event.