Health Technology Assessment

Health Techology Assessments (HTAs) assess the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health care interventions including tests, pharmaceuticals, devices and procedures to inform healthcare policy decisions.

Health Technology Assessment is our largest programme of work and includes:

York Technology Assessment Group (TAR), one of NIHR's Technology Assessment Reviews (TAR) teams funded by the NIHR Evidence Synthesis Programme, undertaken in collaboration with the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.
York Evidence Synthesis Group (YES Group) funded by the NIHR Evidence Synthesis programme, undertaken in collaboration with the Social Care Policy Research Unit at the University of York, and Healthwatch York.

These programmes enable rapid commissioning of HTAs including systematic reviews and economic evaluations to inform decision makers, including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England.

We also undertake systematic reviews and economic evaluations of benefits, harms and costs of a range of healthcare interventions, funded by the NIHR HTA Programme and other organisations.

Project spotlights

HTA Publications

We keep records of our TAR and YES Group projects, as well as other work funded by the NIHR HTA programme and other organisations.

TAR projects

YES Group projects

Individual HTA projects