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We need to talk about values: articulating normative reasoning in health technology assessment

Researcher, Victoria Charlton, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London

Thursday, 08 February 2024, 3pm to 4pm

Hosted by The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)

Date and time:  Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:00 hours (3.00 pm UK GMT)

Location: L1 Main Meeting Room, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, OX3 7LF

To Join: This is a free event, which will be taking place both in-person and online via Zoom/Microsoft Teams. Register

Abstract: It is acknowledged that health technology assessment (HTA) is an inherently value-based activity that makes use of normative reasoning alongside empirical evidence. But the language used to conceptualise and articulate HTA's normative aspects is demonstrably unnuanced, imprecise, and inconsistently employed, undermining transparency and preventing proper scrutiny of the rationales on which decisions are based. In this seminar, a new framework for articulating normative reasoning in the context of HTA is presented and its utility as a tool for both researchers and policy-makers demonstrated through its application to NICE’s methods of technology appraisal. 

Bio: Victoria Charlton is a researcher at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Her academic work focuses on the ethics and policy of healthcare priority-setting. Prior to joining King's, Victoria worked for several years in science policy. Her roles included Head of Policy at the Academy of Medical Sciences and Specialist to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. She has worked on policy spanning many health-related topics and has published widely on the issue of healthcare priority-setting, particularly in the context of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). 

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