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We are delighted to announce that registration is open for our 'Using DCEs in Health Economics' course in Aberdeen. We are planning to run the course from 19th to 21st September 2022 at the Park Inn by Radisson, Aberdeen. This will be a face-to-face event. There is more information on...

Our last HERU blog post of the year looks at a study on couples' preferences for embryo transfer in IVF (in vitro fertilisation). The study involved researchers from the 51cg, including HERU, and the Aberdeen Fertility Centre at NHS Grampian. The research used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to...

The December 2021 issue of the HERU newsletter is available. In the newsletter we feature two new studies related to glaucoma research - the GRIP project on developing and testing a risk predictor tool for glaucoma, and the I-TRAC project on the feasibility of home monitoring for glaucoma. We highlight our discrete choice...

The latest HERU blog post highlights our recent article on the cost and value of Whole Genomic Sequencing (WGS) for rare disease diagnosis in Scotland. The article has been published online in the Journal of Community Genetics and is available via open access. The article and the blog post describe...

A warm welcome to HERU to Hangjian Wu who joined as a Research Fellow last month. Hangjian will initially work on the GRIP project, which attempts to assess the cost-effectiveness of different glaucoma monitoring pathways and treatments in the UK, as well as elicit patients' preferences for different monitoring schemes...

In our latest HERU blog post we highlight the on-going DIAMOND study into ‘Deep infiltrating endometriosis: management by medical treatment versus early surgery’. The DIAMOND study is a randomised controlled trial to compare the clinical and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery versus medical treatment for the management of deep endometriosis. Our...

The August 2021 HERU newsletter has been issued. In the newsletter we highlight two COVID-related studies - on vaccination hesitancy and on Long COVID in healthcare workers - that will provide policy relevant results to shape the continuing response to the pandemic. We also feature new projects on: Using mesh tapes...

The latest HERU blog post looks at our recently published research on the cost-effectiveness of treatments for severe obesity in adults. The research is part of the NIHR funded REBALANCE (REview of Behaviour And Lifestyle interventions for severe obesity) study. We conducted an economic evaluation of different weight management programmes,...

The latest HERU Blog post discusses 'Lives, livelihoods and lockdowns: the public's views on the COVID-19 lockdowns'. This is a follow up to an earlier blog post and highlights some of the initial findings of our research into public preferences and trade-offs for government responses during a pandemic. The post...

The April 2021 HERU newsletter has been issued. This is the first newsletter in our new format and we hope it is easy to use and to read. In the newsletter we highlight some of our new research, including: a recently funded trial on treatments for deep endometriosis. a new project looking...