NICE boosts support for innovative ideas
NICE becomes responsible for the Health Technologies Adoption Programme from May 2013 with funding from NHS England to improve NHS’s uptake of new technologies, such as diagnostic and monitoring devices, surgical implants and other technologies to improve the care given to patients.
NICE will engage with frontline clinicians, managers and procurement specialists in hospitals, clinical commissioning groups and community services to enable them to better understand and overcome the barriers to adoption.
HTAP's products will be in the form of adoption projects, where they will work with a small number of frontline NHS organisations to take a technology and sustainably bring it into routine use in clinical care. This will be written up into a guide detailing what the team did, which may be data collection, procurement of kit, pathway redesign, staff training or business case development. This will be done in parallel with NICE's guidance development and will be published at the same time.