The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme

The NCCHTA offices have moved to: Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park, Chilworth, SOUTHAMPTON SO16 7NS. Telephone numbers and email addresses are unchanged.

The HTA web site (http://www.hta.ac.uk) contains executive summaries and full text versions (in Adobe Acrobat format) of published monographs.

Printed copies cost £20 for both public and private sectors (post and packing free in the UK). Non-UK purchasers must pay a small fee for post and packing (Europe £2 per monograph, rest of the world £3 per monograph). Electronic versions will continue to be available free of charge for personal use. Printed copies of monographs may be ordered by:

Fax (with credit card or official purchase order) to 02392 478 555

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If you have an email address you can subscribe to the HTA monthly email bulletin, by sending an email to: [e-mail] with the word subscribe in the body of an otherwise blank message.

EMAIL ALERTING SERVICE

If you have an email address you can ask to be alerted to new HTA projects and publications in your selected area of interest, e.g. screening. See the HTA website for details.

ELECTRONIC FEED

You can receive alerts on new projects and publication in the HTA programme direct to your desktop using “RSS feeds”. See the HTA website for details.

HTA ON CD

Issue 22 of the CD-ROM of HTA monographs appeared in August 2008. This CD-ROM contains the electronic text in Adobe ‘Acrobat’ format of all monographs published by the HTA Programme up to the end of August 2008. The product has been designed for use with Adobe Reader software (version 7.0.9 provided on the CD-ROM). Issue 23 is planned for early 2009. You can order a free copy via the website (www.hta.ac.uk) or from our despatch agent – see above for details.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Standard Call

A Standard Call for Proposals is currently open. The closing date is 1 PM on 6th January 2009. Please see the HTA website for details.

HTA Open Call. The HTA programme's successful researcher-led funding stream now enables researchers to submit evaluation studies falling within the remit of the HTA programme. This includes feasibility, pilot studies and proposals for evidence synthesis as well as proposals for clinical trials. The next cut-off date is 28th January 2009.

For details of all funding opportunities in the HTA programme please see http://www.hta.ac.uk/funding

Screening related monographs recently published

Project number	Volume	Author	Title	Date published
04/41/01	Vol 10 (3)	(Black)	The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computed tomography screening for lung cancer: systematic reviews	January 2006
03/49/01	Vol 10 (8)	(Garside)	Surveillance of Barrett's oesophagus: exploring the uncertainty through systematic review, expert workshop and economic modelling	March 2006
01/04/03	Vol 10 (11)	(Wu)	Screening for thrombophilia in high-risk situations: systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis. The Thrombosis: Risk and Economic Assessment of Thrombophilia Screening (TREATS) study	April 2006
99/46/02	Vol 10 (14)	(Speight)	The cost-effectiveness of screening for oral cancer in primary care	May 2006
04/40/01	Vol 10 (32)	(Castelnuovo)	The cost-effectiveness of testing for hepatitis C (HCV) in former injecting drug users	September 2006
04/45/01	Vol 10 (39)	(Waugh)	The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computed tomography screening for coronary artery disease: systematic review	October 2006
98/48/04	Vol 10 (50)	(Hewison)	Amniocentesis results: investigation of anxiety. The ARIA trial	December 2006
97/32/31	Vol 11 (8)	(Low)	Epidemiological, social, diagnostic, and economic evaluation of population screening for genital chlamydial infection	March 2007
05/02/01	Vol 11 (17)	(Waugh)	Screening for Type 2 Diabetes: literature review and economic modelling	May 2007
04/51/01	Vol 11 (29)	(Colbourn)	Prenatal screening and treatment strategies to prevent group B streptococcal and other bacterial infections in early infancy: cost-effectiveness and expected value of information analyses	July 2007
03/05/01	Vol 11 (32)	(Bamford)	Current practice, accuracy, effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the School Entry hearing Screen	August 2007
04/08/02	Vol 11 (41)	(Burr)	The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for open angle glaucoma: a systematic review and economic evaluation	November 2007
94/46/01	Vol 11 (42)	(Davis)	Acceptability, benefit and costs of early screening for hearing disability: a study of potential screening tests and models	November 2007
06/90/16	Vol 11 (52)	(Karnon)	A review and critique of modelling in prioritising and designing screening programmes	December 2007
01/64/04	Vol 12 (6)	(Meads)	Methods of prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia: systematic reviews of accuracy and effectiveness literature with economic modelling	March 2008
04/32/05	Vol 12 (25)	(Carlton)	The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening programmes for amblyopia and stabismus in children up to the ages of 4-5 years: a systematic review and economic evaluation	June 2008
03/06/01	Vol 12 (27)	(Karnon)	A preliminary model-based assessment of the cost-utility of a screening programme for early age-related macular degeneration	June 2008

Expected publication dates of forthcoming monographs relating to screening

HTA project number	Grantholder/Author	Title	Monograph expected
03/37/06	Gilbert	Accuracy of screening procedures for non-accidental injury in children: systematic review and modelling of clinical effectiveness	Within 1 month
05/03/01	Khan	Screening to prevent pre-term birth - systematic reviews of accuracy and effectiveness literature with economic modelling	Within 1 month
05/09/07	Feder	How far does screening women for partner violence in different health care settings meet the UK National Screening Committee criteria for a screening programme in terms of condition, screening method and intervention?	Within 2 months
05/11/02	Czoski-Murray	What are the pros and cons of screening high risk populations for anal cancer?	Within 5 months
02/38/04	Gray	Accuracy and cost effectiveness of rapid diagnosis of Group-B streptococcus during labour	Within 5 months
03/02/03	Marteau	Antenatal screening for haemoglobinopathies in primary care: a cluster randomised trial to inform a simulation model (SHIFT)	Within 6 months