scholarly journals A NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR DEVICES: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Campbell ◽  
Lee Dobson ◽  
Joanne Higgins ◽  
Bernice Dillon ◽  
Mirella Marlow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Disease Area ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Technology Type ◽  
New System

Objectives: The aim of this study was to review 5 years of activity from a new system devised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), for assessing medical devices and diagnostics aimed at identifying and speeding adoption of technologies with clinical and cost advantages, compared with current practice in the United Kingdom healthcare system.Methods: All eligible notified technologies were classified using the Food and Drug Administration and Global Medical Device Nomenclature nomenclatures. Decisions about selecting technologies for full assessment to produce NICE recommendations were reviewed, along with the reasons given to companies for not selecting products.Results: Between 2009 and 2014, 186 technologies were notified (46 percent therapeutic and 54 percent diagnostic). Thirty-nine were judged ineligible (no regulatory approval), and 147 were considered by an independent committee. Of these, eighty (54 percent) were not selected for full assessment, most commonly because of insufficient evidence (86 percent): there were uncertainties specifically about benefits to the health service (54 percent), to patients (39 percent), and about cost (24 percent). The remaining 67 were selected and assessed for Medical Technology guidance (52 percent) (noninferior and/or lower cost consequences than current practice), for Diagnostics guidance (43 percent) or other NICE recommendations about adoption and use. Classifying technologies by two different systems showed no selection bias for any technology type or disease area.Conclusions: Identifying new or under-used devices and diagnostics with potential benefits and promoting their adoption is important to health services in the United Kingdom and worldwide. This new system offers a means of fostering both uptake and further research. Lack of research data on new products is a major obstacle to evaluation.

Ankle Replacement: Current Practice of Foot & Ankle Surgeons in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 950-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Goldberg ◽  
Robert J. Sharp ◽  
Paul Cooke
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Ankle Replacement

scholarly journals Open access gastroscopy: second survey of current practice in the United Kingdom.

Gut ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
J G Silcock ◽  
M G Bramble
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom

Armchair Auditors: Crowdsourcing Analysis of Government Expenditures

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. O'Leary
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Government Expenditures ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Open Data Movement

ABSTRACT Increasingly, there is interest in using information and communications technology (ICT) to help build a “better world.” As an example, the United Kingdom has initiated an “open data” movement to disclose financial information about federal and local governments and other organizations. This has led to the use of a wide range of technologies (Internet, Databases, Web 2.0, etc.) to facilitate disclosure. However, since there is a huge cost of generating and maintaining open data, there also is a concern: “will anyone do anything with the data?” In a speech in 2009, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, used the term “armchair auditor” to describe crowdsourcing analysis of that data. In that speech, Cameron (2009) noted: “Just imagine the effect that an army of armchair auditors is going to have on those expense claims.” Accordingly, as more and more countries and organizations generate open data, those “armchair auditors” could play an increasingly important role: to help crowdsource monitoring of government expenditures. This paper investigates a number of potential benefits and a number of emerging concerns associated with armchair auditors.

Emergency Management of Priapism in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Current Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bullock ◽  
Martin Steggall ◽  
Gareth Brown
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom

Post‐Treatment Head and Neck Cancer Care: National Audit and Analysis of Current Practice in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-294
Author(s):  
◽  
Matthew Ellis ◽  
George Garas ◽  
John Hardman ◽  
Maha Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck Cancer ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Cancer ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Post Treatment ◽  
National Audit ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals 298. PRESCRIBING PATTERNS IN JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS: A SURVEY OF CURRENT PRACTICE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Rheumatology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (suppl_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Hawley ◽  
Helen E. Foster ◽  
Michael W. Beresford ◽  
Athimalaipet Ramanan ◽  
Tim Rapley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Prescribing Patterns ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals Children’s moral rights and UK school exclusions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
John Tillson ◽  
Laura Oxley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
School Community ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

This article argues that uses of exclusion by schools in the United Kingdom (UK) often violate children’s moral rights. It contends that while exclusion is not inherently incompatible with children’s moral rights, current practice must be reformed to align with them. It concludes that as a non-punitive preventive measure, there may be certain circumstances in schools where it is necessary to exclude a child in order to safeguard the weighty interests of others in the school community. However, reform is needed to ensure that exclusion is a measure of last resort, unjust discrimination is eliminated, appropriate and timely alternative provision is available, cultures of listening are developed, and blanket policies are removed. The argument is framed in terms of children’s weighty interests as identified in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The moral bearing of these interests on UK schools is defended, and an overview of exclusion practices commonly used in UK schools is provided. Finally, the extent to which the use of exclusion in UK schools might violate the moral rights of the child is considered by evaluating empirically informed arguments for and against such policies couched in terms of interests identified in the Convention.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document