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EUnetHTA – European network for HTA Joint Action, EU-grant no. 2009 2302

The purpose for a European co-operation on HTA is to find and develop an efficient and sustainable co-operation in the area of HTA. This co-operation is to lead to improvements on European, national and regional level.

The EUnetHTA – Joint Action cooperation is to find solutions for a closer co-operation and to promote national solutions, in which context-specific reports contains relevant HTA-information, all created in joint action and complimented with national information.
 
The strategy for the co-operation consists of two closely connected objectives:

  1. Development of methods in order to strengthen the effectiveness and visibility of HTA-cooperation in Europe.
  2. Implementation of the tools, developed in the European Joint Action, on national, regional and local level.


Close interaction between the two objectives shall ensure that the needs of HTA-users within European Healthcare shall be meet. The goal for the Joint Action is to create a sustainable mechanism for exchange of reliable, timely, transparent and transferable information, which in the European countries may be used for HTA.

Background

After a successful ending of the European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) Project (2006-2008), lead by the Danish National Board of Health, implemented 25 partners from 13 EU member states, Norway and Switzerland the EUnetHTA Collaboration (2009) a call for a sustainable permanent HTA-collaboration across Europe.
 
In 2009 the EUnetHTA Collaboration, lead by Denmark, started a new co-operation with the EU-Commission. The purpose was to implement the results of the EUnetHTA Project together with a recommendation from the Pharmaceutical Forum, through a Joint European Action within HTA for the period 2010-2012.

In 2009 forwarded the EUnetHTA-Secretariat, on behalf of 33 European organisations (all 33 appointed by their respective Ministry of Health for participation in the EU-project), an application to the EU-Commission for a Joint Action within HTA.

The project was approved by the EU-Commission and the official Joint Action started on January 1st, 2010 with the Danish National Board of Health as coordinator. The project involves partners from 24 EU-member states, as well as Norway, Switzerland and Croatia.