Ethical and legal considerations in social media research for health technology assessment: conclusions from a scoping review

20 October 2023 - The objective was to identify and describe the published guidance and current academic discourse of ethical issues ...

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Development of an international template to support patient submissions in health technology assessments

1 April 2021 - The objective was to develop an international template to support patient submissions in health technology assessments.  ...

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Scottish Health Technologies Group: enhancing patient engagement

20 January 2021 - The Scottish Health Technologies Group provides evidence support and advice to the National Health Service in Scotland ...

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Keeping up the PACE at the Scottish Medicines Consortium

26 March 2019 - There are many ways that patient centricity could be delivered when doing a health technology assessment. ...

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New guidance for patient group partners taking part in SMC Committee meetings

15 May 2017 - From June 2017, the SMC will be introducing new processes to improve how they involve patient ...

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Updated submission form and guide for Patient Group Partners

24 November 2016 - Following feedback from patient groups and our committee members,  the SMC has introduced an updated Patient ...

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Medicines information factsheet developed for patients and the public

14 June 2016 - A new information factsheet providing information on how health care professionals decide what medicine is right for ...

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Two new films focus on how SMC works with patient groups

14 June 2016 - To help explain how it works with patient groups to capture and present the patient and carer ...

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Patient group submissions to the SMC

21 April 2016 - The SMC has developed two short films to help explain how the agency works with patient groups ...

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