Mar 2020

Case study: Pacemaker telemonitoring for heart failure

The Welsh Cardiac Network requested an appraisal on pacemaker telemonitoring (remote monitoring) for the management of heart failure.

Mar 2020

Health Technology Wales and NICE announce strategic collaboration

Health Technology Wales (HTW) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have formally committed to work together to enhance their independent and authoritative Guidance on non-medicine technologies.

Feb 2020

Health Technology Wales launches two new e-publications

We’re pleased to announce two new e-publications that will give you regular HTW news and updates straight to your inbox: HTW Quarterly and HTW Guidance Alerts.

Report published: Developing the HTW Audit Function to Assess the Adoption of Guidance across Wales

This is a critical step in the spread of technological innovations and has resulted in an agreed process to facilitate and monitor; routine consideration, uptake, (de)commissioning and implementation of evidence-based guidance in NHS Wales.

Feb 2020

Case study: Continuous Glucose Monitoring

We appraised evidence on the effectiveness of using continuous glucose monitoring to help pregnant women with type 1 diabetes manage their condition. We published guidance in October 2019.

Feb 2020

Join Health Technology Wales at Tomorrow’s Health

Over 500 delegates are expected to attend, which will bring together health and care professionals, businesses and academia to shape the future of health and care in Wales.

Feb 2020

Health Technology Wales makes impact in 2019

Throughout 2019, more than 65 technology topics were proposed to us for appraisal. Strong cross-sector relationships attracted these topic proposals from NHS Wales, industry, third sector, Welsh Government and academia.

Feb 2020

Health Technology Wales to advise national PET-CT board

We’ve joined a national working group on Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanning.

Jan 2020

Health Technology Wales join Accelerate multi-disciplinary team

We’ve joined the multi-disciplinary team meetings of Accelerate, the pioneering collaboration to help translate innovative ideas into new technologies, products and services for the health and care sector, quickly.