Identifying topics for research
The HTA programme commissions research that is needed by the NHS. Suggestions for research are actively sought from NHS service users. These can involve ways of promoting health, preventing or treating disease or improving rehabilitation that could usefully be assessed for its effectiveness, for example:
• Drugs: such as antidepressants, contraceptives, pain killers
• Devices: such as hearing aids, pacemakers and pressure mattresses
• Procedures: such as surgical techniques, counselling and physiotherapy
• Settings of care: such as doctors surgeries and hospitals
• Screening: for things like sexually transmitted diseases, cancer and Down's syndrome
Any person or group can make a suggestion for research to the HTA programme by completing an on-line suggestion form.
Resources are available to help you with making a suggestion:
HTA research from a service user perspective (pdf, 67kb)
Making a suggestion for HTA research: service users (pdf, 64kb)
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