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December 2019

Health Technology Wales celebrates second anniversary and sets vision for 2020

On Thursday 19 December, we held an event to showcase our success and celebrate our second anniversary.
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December 2019

Health Technology Wales’ first Annual Report is here!

We’re happy to announce the publication of our Annual Report 2018-2019. It’s our first annual report and highlights what Health…
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December 2019

Case study: Bevan Commission Health Technology Exemplars

We applied health technology assessment methods to the Bevan Health Technology Exemplars (HTE) programme, producing brief technology exploration reports to…
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December 2019

Case study: Mechanical chest compression

We appraised mechanical chest compression devices, to be used by the ambulance service on adults experiencing out-of-hospital non-traumatic cardiac arrest.…
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November 2019

How patients and the public can have their say with Health Technology Wales

It’s important that patients, carers and members of the public can have their say with Health Technology Wales, the national…
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October 2019

Taking research to reality: How the health technology industry has a new route to market in Wales

Do you know a non-medicine health technology or innovative project that can improve the quality of care in Wales?
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October 2019

Why health technology assessment is essential to improving care

We appraise technologies throughout their whole lifecycle, from innovation to obsolescence. This enables key people, like care commissioners, to make…
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August 2019

Listen to the Welsh Health Hack 2019 today

In this episode of the Healthy Thinking Podcast, you can go behind the scenes at the third annual Welsh Health…
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July 2019

Appraisal Panel member Dr Sally Lewis reflects on HTAi 2019

The Health Technology Wales team recently attended the Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) 2019 Annual Meeting in Cologne and were…
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July 2019

International progress for Health Technology Wales at HTAi 2019

The four-day conference was held in Cologne, Germany, and brought together over a thousand Health Technology Assessment (HTA) professionals from…
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July 2019

Health Technology Wales launch online stakeholder survey

As part of our evaluation, we’d like to know how you feel about our work, what you’re able to learn…
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May 2019

Health Technology Wales approved Data Accessor for NICE’s new Health Tech Connect resource

The secure online resource helps to identify and support new health technologies as they move from inception to adoption in…
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May 2019

Health Technology Wales sign a strategic collaboration with WHSSC

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will support us to form closer connections with WHSSC, who share complimentary remits and roles.
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May 2019

Health Technology Wales commit to strategic collaboration with Bevan Commission

Both organisations share complementary remits and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the quality of care in…
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May 2019

‘Celtic connections’ alliance celebrates early success

Having recently entered a ‘Celtic connections’ strategic alliance with our equivalent national bodies in Scotland and Ireland, we’re happy to…
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April 2019

We’ve grown! Meet our new recruits

The Health Technology Wales (HTW) team has grown again in recent months, with the recruitment of three new team members.
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April 2019

Join us for the Welsh Health Hack 2019

The Welsh Health Hack will again bring healthcare professionals together with digital, technology and data companies to solve clinical problems…
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April 2019

Patient, carer and public voices to be heard by Health Technology Wales

Patients, carers and members of the public will have their voices heard as we work to improve the quality of…
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April 2019

Cross sector support for inaugural health workshops

Our inaugural health workshops have taken place to build capacity across the health, care and industry sectors.
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March 2019

Health Technology Wales start 2019 by entering ‘Celtic connections’ strategic alliance

We’re starting 2019 by entering a ‘Celtic connections’ strategic alliance with our equivalent national bodies in Scotland and Ireland.
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March 2019

Topic Call opened to improve care in Wales

We’ve opened a Topic Call on St David’s Day and we’re asking you to suggest non-medicine technologies that could improve…
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February 2019

VIDEO: Learn about Health Technology Wales

We’re delighted to release our brand new ‘About us’ video, an animation to explain who we are, what we do…
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February 2019

Health Technology Wales to hold workshops

Health Technology Wales (HTW) has collaborated with Life Sciences Hub Wales (LSHW) to introduce you to key concepts and methods…
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January 2019

Health Technology Wales publish first ever Impact Report

We’re very happy to publish Health Technology Wales’ first ever Impact Report and reflect on the achievements we made in…
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