Health Technology Assessment
Find out how new drugs or treatments are adopted based on their effectiveness and cost with this online course from the University of Sheffield.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone who works in a medical or pharmaceutical profession, or who studies a healthcare subject such as medicine, nursing, healthcare or health economics and wants to better understand HTA.
This course will also be helpful for a patient or interested member of the public who wants to understand the HTA story behind the headlines.
You should have an interest in healthcare decision making and economics aspects, as this is at the core of HTA.
A basic familiarity with healthcare research will be helpful.
What topics will you cover?
We’ll look at some of the key processes of HTA in order to answer some key questions about a new treatment, such as:
How do we know if the treatment is of benefit?
How can we make sense of all the evidence?
How is evidence of the cost of drugs used in HTA?
We’ll also explore how the final HTA report fits within the wider range of information used to make decisions about which treatments to fund.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Explore the assessment process for a new health technology and how this applies to a potential decision outcome.
Explain the process behind decisions about which healthcare treatments are funded to a patient or member of the public.
Investigate a health technology assessment (HTA) and understand the evidence presented.
Contribute to an informed discussion about whether or not a new health technology is adopted and funded by the NHS, or other national healthcare system.
