EUnetHTA Joint Action
Collaboration between HTA agencies in practice:
Learning from actual experiences, Brussels October 13–14, 2010
Finn Børlum Kristensen,
EUnetHTA Secretariat,
National Board of Health, Denmark
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European network for HTA
Joint Action between European
Commission and EU Member States
A total of 34 government appointed organisations from 23 EU Member
States, Norway and Croatia and a large number of regional agencies and
non-for-profit organisations that produce or contribute to HTA
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Strategic position
• All activities of the EUnetHTA
Collaboration arise from the premise
that its outputs will be used to
inform but not mandate the content
of national / regional / institutional
HTA reports
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Main objective of Joint Action
The overarching objective of the
Joint Action on Health Technology
Assessment including work on
relative effectiveness of
pharmaceuticals is to put into
practice an effective and sustainable
HTA collaboration in Europe that
brings added value at the European,
national and regional level
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EUnetHTA Project 2006-08
Focus on methodology – but also in practical
tools for collaboration and good management
64 Partners
55 Partners from 29 countries (21 EU Member States)
including 9 International Partner Organisations
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Final Technical Report published by European
Commission on
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_systems/docs/eunethta_report
_en.pdf
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Fourteen scientific articles published in Int J Technol
Assess Health Care, 2009: 25 (Suppl. 2)
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EUnetHTA Joint Action 2010-12
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Coordination
Core HTA including adaptation
Relative Effectiveness Assessment (REA) of
Pharmaceuticals
New Technologies. Facilitating Evidence
Generation and Collaboration on (Precoverage) Assessments
Information management system
Strategy development (Business model for
sustainability including capacity building to
do HTA)
Communication
Evaluation
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Use of technology in health care
”Diffusion” of technology, Regulation, HTA,
Policy making and Decision making
Policy making
Policy
making
Regulation
Policy making
Clinical
Decision
making
Clinical
Decision
making
Clinical
Decision
making
H
T
A
Time line of innovation
Basic
Applied
research research
Experimental
Obsolete???
Investiga- Nearly
tional
established Established
Technology
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Use of technology in health care
EUnetHTA tools and life cycle of
technologies
Time line of innovation - technologyFEG**
POP*
Basic
Applied
research research
Experimental
HTA Core Model
Relative Effectiveness
Adaptation toolkit
Obsolete???
Investiga- Nearly
tional
established Established
Technology
*) Planned and Ongoing Projects
**) Facilitation of Evidence Generation
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How does HTA split the onion?
(K. Lampe)
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Core HTA Structure
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10
Three Year Work Plan agreed by the
Plenary Assembly
Detailed plans for all eight Work
Packages have been developed and
agreed by all EUnetHTA Joint Action
Partners in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May
2010
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Plenary Assembly
(policy setting)
reporting
EU Institutions
info
control
Executive Committee
(strategic planning of activities) info
reporting
coordination /
exchange of
info
Determine
activities
Stakeholder
Forum
control
Secretariat
reporting
support/control
Work
Work
Work
Work
Work
Work
Work
Work
Package
Package
Package
Package
Package
Package
Package
Package
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EUnetHTA Stakeholder
Forum
Composition: European umbrella
organisations approved by Plenary
Assembly
Purpose: information exchange
Task examples: to observe and comment
on the EUnetHTA JA work and
to provide advice to overarching questions in
the Joint Action and key Work packages
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Participants in Stakeholder
Forum activities
Payers
Stakeholder Forum
Participants
AIM
ESIP
Providers
CPME
HOPE
Industry
Patient/Consumers
BEUC
ECPC
EPF
EURORDIS
EFNA
EFPIA
EUCOMED
EGA
COCIR
EDMA
EuropaBio
(AESGP)
GIRP
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