
an Economist Intelligence Unit business healthcare
H.E.L.P provides the cost effectiveness, impact on health inequalities, and reach of interventions to support the prioritisation of investments in preventative health care. It allows commissioners to access evidence on existing preventative health care interventions and to benchmark new interventions against existing care.
The Matrix Knowledge Group (http://www.matrixknowledge.com/), working in collaboration with Imperial College London, Kings College London and Bazian Ltd, was commissioned by Health England to develop and apply a method for prioritising investments in preventative health and social care interventions. This project was undertaken in response to the recommendations of the White Paper 'Our health, our care, our say'.
H.E.L.P. provides information on the cost-effectiveness, impact on health inequalities, and reach of interventions to support the prioritisation of investments in preventative health care. It allows commissioners to access evidence on existing preventative health care interventions and to benchmark new interventions against existing care.
The prioritisation methodology:
A Multi-criteria Decision Analysis was undertaken comprising the following steps: