This research degree gives you the chance to pursue a research project based around your own passions and interests, leading to a qualification which can open the door to an academic career or boost employment prospects outside academia. Delivering robust and ground breaking health economics research on the development and delivery of health care interventions and services, by combining significant qualitative skills, expertise in real-world data mining and analysis, and health policy. Research students in this area are investigating areas such as the cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacist interventions in patients with cardiac disease, the application of prioritisation methods in an era of disinvestment, and the costs associated with the collection and utilisation of allergenic blood. A thesis of no more than 60,000 words is submitted, which demonstrates original research that contributes significantly to the subject area. This is then followed by an oral examination of the thesis (viva).