European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA)
EUnetHTA aims to develop an organisational framework for a sustainable European Network for HTA. It also aims to devise practical tools to fit into this framework to ensure timely and effective production, dissemination and transfer of HTA results into useful policy advice to the member states and EU.
HTA agencies, research institutions, and health ministries from 24 European countries have joined forces on the project. Work to develop practical tools has been divided into eight separately managed work packages. This project began in January 2006 and will end in December 2008.
NCCHTA's role in the project
The National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) has been involved in EUnetHTA since the project started.
The National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) is 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. We are closely involved in Work Package 4: Common core HTA
4. We are closely involved in Work Package 6: HTA and health policy
5. Part of our funding comes from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme and we will produce a report of the research we have done at the end of the project.Find out more
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.
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