NETSCC's involvement in the EUnetHTA project


NETSCC role in the project

The NIHR Evalutation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (previously NCCHTA) has been involved in EUnetHTA since the project started in January 2006. It was involved in EUnetHTA in five main ways:

1. Contributing to the overall coordination of the project, through Work Package 1

2. Lead partner for Work Package 5: Applying common core information and adapting existing HTAs into local/national settings.

3. Close involvement in Work Package 4: Common core HTA

4. Close involvement in Work Package 6: HTA and health policy

5. Part of our funding comes from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme and a report of the research has published in the HTA journal series.

Work Package 5

The objective of this work package is to ensure better use of existing HTA reports by developing a toolkit for adapting the “core” within assessments made for one country into advice appropriate to other contexts (social, political, economic and health system) within which it may be implemented through policy. The intention is to provide structured products based on work already done that can then be easily utilised in policy making in member states and the EU. Facilitating the use of existing HTAs will contribute to minimising the duplication of work.

EUnetHTA project news

Developing a European Network - Published in the HTA journal series
HTA adaptation toolkit now available in Turkish
UK EUnetHTA Newsletter April 2008
UK EUnetHTA Newsletter November 2007
Article on EUnetHTA in HTA Update 2008
Article on 'Work with partners' in the HTA Annual Report 2008
Article 'Expanding the evidence base - Key role in Europe' in Clinical Discovery September 2006
European Network for HTA starts work

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