OP33 Adopting Health Technologies: NICE Approach For Evidence Into Action

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Chesworth, Elaine Wyart, Katie Chrisp, Paul
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	Introduction: Evidence and guidance alone do not change practice. A multitude of factors are influential upon whether a particular health technology is adopted in practice. The adoption team at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) engages with healthcare professionals to develop specifically tailored support for the adoption of NICE health technology assessments (NICE medical technologies, diagnostics and technology appraisal guidance). Methods: The NICE adoption team uses a structured process which involves engagement of healthcare professionals with experience or knowledge of the technology to identify the barriers to adoption. This information is used to populate the topic selection tool which presents the impact of adopting the technology under five headings: care pathway change; finance; difficulty to implement; education; and, patient acceptance. The result indicates which guidance would benefit from adoption support: plan and develop tailored solutions to address barriers to adoption which include a resource impact assessment and targeted communications; quality assure; and, publish tailored resources. Results: Examples of tailored outputs include: adoption resources sharing real world experiences of sites that have adopted the technology; and, NICE pilot projects, where the adoption team work closely with sites to support adoption of the technology at a local level. The team then share learning and results from the project to facilitate: engagement with national planning groups to coordinate wider scale adoption; resource impact assessments which help local cost impact of adoption to be estimated; engagement with general and specialist media; and, influencing national tariff. Conclusions: NICE's processes have evolved to facilitate the development of a wider variety of more tailored resources, to support adoption of NICE health technology assessments guidance into practice. We will continue to engage with healthcare professionals and be responsive in our processes to ensure the packages of adoption support are tailored to need.
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Ending Page	14
Page Count	2
Starting Page	13
ISSN	02664623
e-ISSN	14716348
DOI	10.1017/s0266462318000910
Journal	International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
Issue Number	S1
Volume Number	34
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2018-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Adoption of Nice Health Technology Nice Health Technology Assessments
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Synopsis
Subject	Health Policy