The Autumn/Winter 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is out!

The newsletter you've all been waiting for! 

HEDS Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2022

The Autumn/Winter 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is now available and includes:

• International development of a new measure of Health and Wellbeing,
• HEDS hosts the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting,
• A new framework to identify quality of mental healthcare,
• And the latest publications by HEDS staff 

Read it online here

The Spring/Summer 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is out!

The newsletter you've all been waiting for! The Spring/Summer 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is now available and includes:

• International development of a new measure of Health and Wellbeing,
• HEDS hosts the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting,
• A new framework to identify quality of mental healthcare,
• And the latest publications by HEDS staff 

Read it online here

HEDS Newsletter 17.1

Autumn and Winter edition of the HEDS Newsletter is out

The Autumn/Winter issue of the HEDS Newsletter is now available and includes:

• ISPOR awards for HEDS researchers, 
  
• Our studies on smoking trends in England,
• HEDS presentations at Virtual ISPOR Europe 2021,
• The latest publications by HEDS staff,
  
• And an introduction from ScHARR's new Director for Innovation.

you can read it via this link 

HEDS Newsletter - Vol 16.2

The Spring/Summer issue of the HEDS Newsletter now available!

  This issue includes:

• An update on Hypo-RESOLVE - raising awareness of hypoglycaemia

• Introduction to the new Dean of ScHARR

• Representing HEDS at the latest ISPOR conference

• Keeping ScHARR staff connected with The Regent Street Journal

• Workshop collaboration through the UK-China Health and Economy Partnership, (UK-CHEP)

• What has 2020 done to the UK’s alcohol consumption

Available to read here

Winter Edition of the HEDS Newsletter is out

The latest HEDS Newsletter is now out - you can read it here 

A warm welcome to our latest newsletter. Despite the trials and tribulations of recent months, I’m

proud to say that our staff have taken a HEDS on approach to COVID and have once again been extremely busy and productive. Highlights in this issue include details of what we will

be presenting at the upcoming ISPOR meeting in November, and we reveal the name of our colleague who has joined ISPOR’s Health Sciences Policy Council.

Elsewhere, our outcomes group has been busy, with the launch of a new PROM’s checklist, and Dr Donna Rowen taking the lead on the new UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study. 

Also in this issue are details of two COVID-related apps which have been developed by Colin Angus, and a cartoon YouTube video by Dr Nick Latimer looking at modelling cancer.

I hope you’ll agree there’s something for everyone!

Until the next issue, take care!

Latest edition of the HEDS Newsletter

Mark Clowes

The latest HEDS Newsletter is out and you can download it here. Our own Newsletter Editor in Chair Mark Clowes can be seen holding the latest edition. 

Below you can read about our latest news from HEDS Director, Dr Phil Shackley

“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

We’re so glad you could attend
Come inside, come inside”

Dr Phil Shackley

At the time of writing, a policy to implement a Minimum Unit Price for alcohol in Scotland is due to come into effect on May 1st. Work undertaken by ScHARR’s Alcohol Research Group (including several modellers from HEDS) has had a significant role in the introduction of the policy.

With our former Director, Simon Dixon, having sailed away into the sunset to the sound of Frank Sinatra (as far as China, as it happens, of which more inside), I’ve taken the opportunity to abuse my newly acquired power by allowing Emerson, Lake and Palmer to introduce the first HEDS newsletter of my tenure.

Since taking the reins last November, there has been a ton of stuff happening which we need to tell you about. 

Another highlight is the work of researchers from HEDS, in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of York and Manchester, on the cost of avoidable medication errors in the NHS.

Elsewhere in HEDS, Dr Pete Dodd is part of large European Union-supported project investigating the impact of a combined tuberculosis and HIV intervention in high prevalence communities in South Africa and Zambia.

Other items include HEDS’ presence at the HTAi conference in Vancouver, our forthcoming MOOCs and short courses, and members of HEDS receiving awards from ISPOR and Jisc.

That’s it from me for this edition, so until the next time I’ll let The Doors have the last word:

“This is the end, beautiful friend”

Phil Shackley, Director of HEDS

HEDS Winter Newsletter 2017

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The nights may have drawn in and the heating turned back on, but you'll have plenty to read in front of your warm fire with the Winter Edition of the HEDS Newsletter out now. Professor Simon Dixon gives his fond farewells as he steps down as Section Director, whilst we have news about our Evidence Synthesis Centre, successful Fellowship bid for Dr Pete Dodd and note of our own special edition of PharmacoEconomics. All of these stories and many more can be read here

The Winter edition of the HEDS Newsletter is out

Winter Edition of HEDS Newsletter

Autumn is shaping up quite nicely, the leaves have turned golden brown, there is a crispness in the morning air and we are already looking forward to nights in front of the fire with a hot cup of Horlicks (other night time milky beverages are available). This time of the year also means our final edition of the HEDS newsletter for 2016. This month's cover is of Professor John Brazier with Paul Bloomfield MP at a Westminster launch of the ReQoL  patient reported outcome measure earlier this month. 

We also celebrate The Decision Support Unit successfully renewing its contract till 2019 so it can continue to carry out the highly influential work on Technical Support Documents and the NICE Technology Appraisal Programme’s Methods Guide. It also serves to keep us at the forefront of methodological research and policy development.

We give an update on our established MOOCs, important methodological work on model structuring by Hazel Squires, new Fellowships on predicting future outcomes and cancer modelling for Ben Kearns and Rachid Rafia, and a summary of our presentations and workshops at ISPOR. 

In this month's issue we look at:

• HEDS announces official launch of ReQoL

• HEDS Decision Support Unit contract renewed

• Framework for developing the structure of Public Health economic models

• NIHR Fellowships in HEDS

• ScHARR HEDS at ISPOR Europe 2016, Vienna

• HEDS delivers ‘best workshop’ at What Works? Global Summit

• HEDS Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) success

• HEDS contributes to NICE guidance on harmful sexual behaviour in young people