As part of cooperation with NICE (Great Britain), specialists of the HTA Department took part in a series of online trainings on health technology assessment.
Training within the “Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Development Program for the Institutionalization and Management of Health Technology Assessment” takes place as a continuation of the agreements on studying international HTA experience reached between the State Expert Center and NICE (United Kingdom) in June of this year. At that time, a team of Center specialists, as part of a delegation of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, completed Part I of the training on health technology assessment in London https://www.dec.gov.ua/…/u-londoni-tryvaye-programa…/
During Part II of the HTA course (September–October 2023), our specialists are scheduled to take part in six training sessions.
As of today, the Center’s HTA specialists have already strengthened their competencies in the following areas:
- Horizon scanning (horizon scanning) for selecting topics for assessment;
- General processes and mechanisms of NICE HTA;
- Involving patients, the public and other stakeholders in the HTA process, adhering to the principles of transparency.
Three more training sessions on the following topics lie ahead:
- The NICE regulatory framework for effective HTA decision-making.
- Budget impact analysis. National and local formularies: the experience of the United Kingdom;
- Examples of the work of the NICE health technology assessment expert committee and of conducting health technology assessments of medicinal products.
In addition to the Center’s experts, representatives of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the professional community are also involved in the training within their competence.
The experience gained will make it possible to strengthen the prospects for the development of HTA in Ukraine, to localize the best elements of NICE HTA in domestic practice, and will contribute to improving the access of Ukrainian patients to effective and cost-effective medicinal products and treatment regimens.
