Examples of HTA bodies in Europe and other tasks

Table 2: Sample HTA bodies structure and funding arrangements

Example HTA bodies	Year	Funder	Decision-Maker
1. Basque Office for Health Technology Assessment, Spain	1992	Public	Regional
2. Hayes, Inc. USA	1989	Private	Various
3. Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU), Sweden	1987	Public	National-Regional
4. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)	1999	Public	National – regional England, Scotland and Wales
5. Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare) (IQWiG), Germany	2004	Public	Federal
6. Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), France	2004	Public	Federal

Some examples of HTA bodies in Europe include:

• France - Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) - http://www.has-sante.fr
• Germany - IQWIG (Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) - https://www.iqwig.de/en/
• Scotland - Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) - www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/Home
• Sweden - Tandvårds- och Läkemedelsförmånsverket (TLV) -  https://www.tlv.se/in-english.html
• United Kingdom – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - https://www.nice.org.uk/

In addition to their main role of producing HTA recommendations a number of HTA bodies in the EU and Norway perform at least one of the other tasks as shown in an overview in the following table, adapted from the EC study 2018.

Table 3. Other tasks performed by national HTA bodies