AHHA Submission to the Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods Review

This submission builds on consultation undertaken with health system leaders in developing a blueprint for health reform towards outcomes-focused, value-based health care, and AHHA’s operating model of continuously listening to and engaging with the experiences and evidence from our members and stakeholders, as we contribute to the evolution of our health system. [...] In 2019, AHHA established the Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care, recognising that a person’s experience of health and health care is supported and enabled by a diverse range of entities, public and private, government and non-government. [...] An explicit disinvestment framework will be critical in helping to address the issue of low and no value care currently contributing to poor outcomes for patients and undermining the sustainability of the health system. [...] There would be value in considering the work of the Welsh Value in Health Centre, which is discussed in the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Perspectives Brief, Transforming for value-based health care: Lessons from NHS Wales and the resources developed by the Welsh Centre on PROMs and PREMs4. [...] Activity to assess the environmental impact of new health technologies and products at the HTA level and transparency of reporting of this information is a critical step to better supporting decarbonisation and investment decision making at all levels of the health system.