Nick Hex is Associate Director at York Health Economics Consortium.  He leads YHEC’s programme of work in the NHS and the public sector, providing economic evaluation and quantitative and qualitative analysis for local and national organisations.  These include the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS Improvement, Primary Care Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups and provider hospitals, as well as third sector organisations such as Macmillan Cancer Support.    Nick’s reviews examine efficiency and productivity and use techniques such as return on investment, cost benefit analysis and programme budgeting to provide decision-making information.  Nick has also worked at Audit Scotland and the Audit Commission and he is a qualified accountant (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy).