Delegation and governance striuctures in health technoilogy.docVIP

Report: Governance structures and health technology assessment agencies: a comparative approach Mark Thatcher Department of Government London School of Economics July 2010 Abstract Health technology assessment (HTA) agencies have spread throughout Europe in the past twenty years. The study examined the governance structures for those agencies comparatively, both through cross-national comparison (it looks in detail at HTA agencies for pharmaceuticals and other health treatments in three major European countries- Britain, France and Germany) and through cross-sectoral comparison, notably with e