In our first guest episode Phil is joined by Tom Padgett to discuss a new approach to assessing value in healthcare that takes into account the entire healthcare system.

In this episode Phil and Marc discuss what the word ‘safe’ means in a healthcare context and how it can be applied to emotive subjects like vaccines.Safety, risk/benefit, risk perception, safety profile, intended use, side effects, adverse events, vaccines, vaccination, herd immunity, smallpox, MMR, mRNA vaccine, probability, conditional probability.

In this episode Phil and Marc react to recent healthcare announcements in the US and discuss the difference between correlation and causation.Whatis a randomised clinical trial? | MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCLTrumpmakes unproven claims linking autism to Tylenol use by pregnant women - BBCNews

In this episode Phil and Marc discuss what value actually means in healthcare: how it’s worked out, who gets a say in what matters, and who decides what ‘good value’ is

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Phil and Marc discuss Phil’s company HEOR. What does it do, how does it do it andwhat makes it unique?

Phil and Marc discuss the rollout of the chickenpox vaccine in the UK, and the history of the treatment of obesity

In this first episode, hosts Phil McEwan and Dr Marc Evans introduce the concept of this brand new health economics podcast. When it comes to healthcare, what can we do differently to shape the future?