Collaboration arrangement between the Department of Health and Aged Care and Health Technology Assessment bodies in the United Kingdom and Canada

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5 September 2022 - The Department of Health and Aged Care has signed an international collaboration arrangement with five like minded health technology assessment bodies.

The collaboration arrangement sets out a framework to support shared strategic objectives in several priority areas.

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Insights:

  • PHARMAC is not a party to the collaboration arrangement at least in the first instance. One wonders whether the folks from Wellington were considered or asked to join. Note the collaboration also includes Scotland and Wales. The press closes with the following statement "The partnership could be expanded to include other HTA bodies in the future, subject to the agreement of existing members, with the signed agreement reviewed after two years."
  • No corresponding press release (as yet) from NICE or CADTH.
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