February 2020
Health Technology Wales makes impact in 2019
Throughout 2019, more than 65 technology topics were proposed to us for appraisal. Strong cross-sector relationships attracted these topic proposals…
February 2020
Health Technology Wales to advise national PET-CT board
We’ve joined a national working group on Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanning.
January 2020
Health Technology Wales join Accelerate multi-disciplinary team
We’ve joined the multi-disciplinary team meetings of Accelerate, the pioneering collaboration to help translate innovative ideas into new technologies, products…
January 2020
Our team has grown! Meet the new members
It means we now have 20 members of staff, with 17 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs), and it has increased capacity…
January 2020
Industry engage with Health Technology Wales to kick start 2020
We started 2020 with an event to encourage industry to collaborate with us in our work to increase access to…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
