A regulatory governance perspective on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Sweden

Shah, Sara Mehmood, Barron, Anthony, Klinger, Corinna and Wright, John (2014) A regulatory governance perspective on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Sweden. Health Policy, 116 (1). pp. 27-36. ISSN 0168-8510

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Abstract

Independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) are a key means by which national governments have responded to the challenge of ensuring equitable public access to a new range of medicines and treatment options within the context of limited national budgets for healthcare. In this paper, we apply a regulatory governance frame to the study of the Swedish process for HTA. Based on qualitative interviews with key institutional stakeholders, we suggest that the major challenge for Swedish IRAs for HTA is successfully communicating nationally produced research outputs to the regional authorities responsible for the delivery of health services. We conclude that a regulatory governance approach to the analysis of national processes for HTA has the capacity to draw attention to a new range of challenges and issues which have direct relevance to improving the conduct of HTA within national regulatory spaces.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-policy/
Additional Information:	© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Divisions:	Social Policy LSE Health
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2014 09:08
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2024 22:18
Funders:	Higher Education Funding Council of England’s Strategic Development Fund
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56313

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