South African HTA activities

This page displays a listing of current events or changes to our web. We intend to place notices here regarding general notices, meeting dates, feedback from past meetings, notice of bulletins and documents available for download etc.

Tuesday, 3 August 2004
The Interim Steering Committee on HTA is to meet in Pretoria on Friday, 6 August 2004. A Stakeholders Meeting is being planned for Tuesday, 17 August 2004.

Friday, 23 July 2004
A meeting convened by the National Department of Health was held in Johannesburg to continue work on preparing the way for a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Process for South Africa. Drs Jacqui Miot of Discovery Health and Hannes Loots of Medscheme each delivered presentations covering the methodology of their already well established South African HTA programmes.

Wednesday, 21 July 2004
Our web discussion forum was activated for ready usage on 17 July 2004. Please follow the links on the Contact Us page to reach this. We invite all interested parties to participate in these debates.

Wednesday, 14 July 2004
Our web discussion forum will be activated by 23 July 2004. The forum is being provided to facilitate and support the important discussions that need to take place within and amongst HTA stakeholders prior to the Stakeholders Meeting planned for August 2004. Any number of topics can be created to support these discussions, and all discussions are threaded and archived. Should you so wish, restricted access can be arranged for discussions of a preliminary and/or sensitive nature.

Monday, 12 July 2004
The Interim Steering Committee on HTA working group on stakeholder communications holds a teleconference to prepare the concept and practical issues surrounding the publication and posting of this website.

Friday, 9 July 2004
The Interim Steering Committee on HTA holds a teleconference to prepare the way forward in terms of further Technical and Stakeholders meetings to be announced in due course. Mrs Nonkonzo Molai, Miss Lyn Hanmer and Messrs Mladen Poluta and Rob Dickinson are tasked with conceptualising this website and to discuss ways in which the Interim Steering Committee could further communicate and consult as broadly as is possible.

Friday, 25 June 2004
Mrs Nonkonzo Molai presents an overview of the work and interim findings of the Interim Steering Committee on HTA to the Interim Health Technology Advisory Committee (IHTAC) at the National Department of Health in Pretoria.

Friday, 11 June 2004
A meeting convened by the National Department of Health was held in Johannesburg to continue work on preparing the way for a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Process for South Africa. At this meeting all working group findings thus far were collated, presented and discussed.

Sunday, 30 May to Wednesday, 2 June 2004
Dr Johann van Zyl and Messrs Mark Brand and Owen Hooker travel to Krakow Poland to attend the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Conference 30 May to 2 June 2004.

Friday, 7 May 2004
A meeting convened by the National Department of Health was held in Johannesburg to continue work on preparing the way for a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Process for South Africa. Three working groups comprising members from the Interim National Steering Committee on HTA were established.

Mr Rob Dickinson and Dr Michael Cheng (EU Technical Advisor to DOH on Health Technology Regulation) were tasked to produce an international survey of all known existing HTA entities, to tabulate, analyse and report back on input from returns received.

Mrs Nonkonzo Molai and Miss Lyn Hanmer were tasked to report on existing HTA processes already underway in various South African healthcare sectors.

Dr Johann van Zyl, Miss Nusreen Khan, Messrs Mark Brand and Riaan van der Watt were tasked to produce a document outlining possible structures of an HTA entity that South Africa could possibly
adopt.

April 2004
Mrs Nonkonzo Molai travels to Sweden to attend a Health Forum meeting, following the October 2003 examination by herself and Dr Penny Thlabi of various aspects of Health Technology Assessment systems adopted there.

Wednesday, 10 March 2004
A two day seminar was held in Johannesburg to continue discussion on a Health Technology Assessment Process for South Africa. The seminar was facilitated by the Department of Health and was also attended by a delegation from the SBU, the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care.

Friday, 20 February 2004
Following extensive consultation and negotiation, an HTA Stakeholders Workshop was held at the SAMA offices near Pretoria to discuss a Health Technology Assessment Process for South Africa. The workshop was arranged by Lyn Hanmer of the Private Health Information Standards Committee (PHISC) and facilitated by Dr Gustaaf Wolvaardt of the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD), a division of the South African Medical Association (SAMA). The vision for an HTA system as laid out in the Department of Health's Health Technology Policy Framework was discussed. An Interim National Steering Committee on HTA was proposed and members of this committee nominated.