OFT's value-based pricing scheme is well-founded, but could increase overall NHS drug spend
...by the Office of Fair Trading has recommended that pricing of drugs is based not on how much the drug costs to develop, but on the benefit that the drug can bring. After examining the proposals for a paper publishing today in the journal Health Economics, Professor Karl Claxton believes that such Value-Based...Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic institutes worldwide
...icleChoice will offer them the flexible access and pricing options that they need. The unique flexibility of the product is echoed by Andrea Schweikert, Global Accounts Director Elsevier: Librarians will have more control over their budgets. They pay upfront for a bundle of full-text articles at a discoun...Focus on opticians shows chain store pricing policies can save independents
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...d winners have proved transformative. For example, pricing policies known as revenue or yield management pion...nce through modeling of customer behavior, product pricing and analyzing supplier agreements. The result: since 2002, Travelocity has more than doubled its ann...UQ Australian of the Year will continue to fight for women's health
...indicated that they would introduce a differential pricing structure so developing countries could get the vaccine at a cheaper price. "However 'cheaper' does not necessarily mean it will be affordable in poor nations," Professor Frazer said. "I intend to keep a close eye on the global distribution of the va...UQ scientist honoured for developing the world's first cancer vaccine
...indicated that they would introduce a differential pricing structure so developing countries could get the vaccine at a cheaper price. "But cheaper isn't cheap. This is a vaccine which is technically quite difficult to make," he said. "It will rely on the good graces of the Gates Foundation, the World Bank...Satellite survey of Elbe flood helps Swiss Re insure for disaster
...mparatively simple. The challenge comes in setting pricing for major natural catastrophes. These disasters may take place frequently on a global basis, but occur extremely rarely within a single locality although they cause great damage when they do, enough to potentially ruin any single direct insurance co...NHS should have an independent regulator
...lators to see that commercial interests and unfair pricing do not disadvantage the public. At present the UK does not have an independent regulator of healthcare reform, yet the consequences of ill judged reform of the NHS may inflict long term damage to the delivery of health care to its citizens, says Ian...The ACCP strives to close the 10/90 gap between rich and poor nations
...s succeeded by developing and implementing a novel pricing approach, according to an article published in the...these communities, ACCP implemented an alternative pricing approach that allowed the professional organization to lower the membership fees for international m...