Start date
January 2006

 

Objectives

During the first 3 years of existence (2006-2008) EUnetHTA aims at developing an organisational framework for a sustainable European Network for HTA along with practical tools to fill 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. The project progress can be monitored at www.eunethta.net and the final results will be presented at the EUnetHTA Conference in 2008.

Participant countries
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark (coordinator), Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, Great Britain, Iceland, Norwegian, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Israel and USA.

HTA agencies, research institutions, and health ministries from 24 European countries have joined their efforts to develop an effective European Network for Health Technology Assessment – EUnetHTA. CAHTA is participating in EUnetHTA as an Associated Partner.

Initially, the EUnetHTA project is being co-financed by the European Commission (DG Sanco) and contributions from network members In addition to face-to-face meetings and conventional electronic communication, modern ways of collaboration through e-meeting facilities will be available to the project members and their staff.

The EUnetHTA project consists of eight separately managed work packages (WPs), each led by one Associated Partner (Lead Partner):

WP1. Coordination of the Project
(DACEHTA, Denmark)
Objective: To establish the organisational and structural framework for an effective and sustainable European Network for HTA with a supporting secretariat.

WP2. EUnetHTA Communications
(SBU, Statens Beredning för Medicinsk, Sweden)
Objective: Effective dissemination and handling of HTA results, information sharing and coordination of HTA activities through the development and implementation of elaborate communication strategies and clearinghouse activities”.

WP3. Evaluation of the Project
(Norwegian Health Services Research Center, Norwey)
Objective: To monitor and provide an internal audit function for EUnetHTA to achieve the objectives and produce the deliverables in the WPs

WP4. Common core of health technology assessment –HTA-
(Finnish Office for HTA, FinOHTA, Finland)
Objective: To develop a generic methodological HTA framework based on current best practices (Core HTA Structure).

WP5. Adapting existing HTAs from one country to other settings
(National Coordinating Centre for HTA, UK)
Objective: 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).

WP6. Transferability to health policy
(DACEHTA, Denmark)
Objective: To get a systematic overview of the relations between HTA and healthcare policy making

WP7. Monitoring development for emerging/new technologies and prioritization of HTAs
(Haute Autorité de Sante, France i Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria)
Objective: To provide tools to monitor the development of health technologies and to share data and results of this monitoring.

WP8. Systems to support HTA in member states with limited institutionalisation of HTA
(Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research-CAHTA, Spain)
Objective: To define minimum components related to the scope, structure, process and visibility of an HTA organisation and to develop tools for education support to institutions or healthcare systems in the process of evolving to/building an HTA organisation / capacity

Expected completion date
December 2008

In charge at the CAHTA

Joan MV Pons 

Mireia Espallargues ( mespallargues@aatrm.catsalut.net )

Montserrat Moharra ( mmoharra@aatrm.catsalut.net )

 

Researchers

Mònica Cortés

Maria-Dolors Estrada

Antoni Parada

 

Web site
www.eunethta.net