Scottish Health Technologies Group
A knowledge broker for Scotland's health
networks
The Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG)
is an advisory group set up to provide assistance to NHSScotland
boards when considering selected health technologies, excluding
medicines which will be reviewed by the Scottish Medicines
Consortium (SMC).
The remit of the
SHTG
is to provide
advice on the evidence about the clinical and cost effectiveness of
existing and new technologies likely to have significant
implications for patient care in Scotland. This advice should
support the planning and decision making processes in NHS boards.
This includes a horizon scanning function to provide early
intelligence on health technologies in development.
Balanced and impartial
advice
The
SHTG
aims to present a
balanced and impartial critical appraisal and summary of the
research evidence about new technologies, and/or new evidence about
existing technologies. The
SHTG
sets out to act as
an ‘honest broker’ when interpreting the evidence and provide
independent and unbiased advice.
The
SHTG
complements the
advice supplied by the
SMC
and the Scottish
Intercollegiate Guidelines Network on medicines and clinical
practice respectively.
SHTG
works in
collaboration with a number of national groups, including the
National Planning Forum.
A key function of Healthcare Improvement
Scotland is the evaluation and provision of advice to NHSScotland
on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing health
technologies.
