4. Examples of HTA bodies in Europe and other tasks

Example HTA Bodies	Year	Funder	Website	Decision-Maker
1. Basque Office for Health Technology Assessment, Spain	1992	Public	euskadi.eus	Regional
2. Hayes, Inc. USA	1989	Private	hayesinc.com	Various
3. Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU), Sweden	1987	Public	sbu.se	National-Regional
4. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)	1999	Public	nice.org.uk	National – regional England, Scotland and Wales
5. IQWiG – Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare, Germany	2004	Public	iqwig.de	Federal
6. Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), France	2004	Public	has-sante.fr	Federal
7. Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), Scotland	2002	Public	scottishmedicines.org.uk	National-Regional
8. Tandvårds- och Läkemedelsförmånsverket (TLV), Sweden	2002	Public	tlv.se	National

Table 2 Sample HTA bodies structure, funding arrangements and websites

 

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. These tasks are shown in an overview in the following table, adapted from the EC study 2018.

	Quality Standards	Clinical Guidelines Development	Healthcare Promotion	Horizon Scanning	Registries	Education	Early Dialogues & Scientific Advice
Countries	Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, UK, Norway	Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Norway	Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, UK, Norway	Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK, Norway	Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, Norway	Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Poland, Spain, UK, Norway	Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, Norway
Total number	12 MS + Norway	14 MS + Norway	12 MS + Norway	10 MS + Norway	11 MS + Norway	14 MS + Norway	12 MS + Norway