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Health Technology Assessment Programme
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The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) website (http://www.hta.ac.uk) contains executive summaries and full text versions (in Adobe Acrobat format) of published monographs.
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Standard Call
A Standard Call for Proposals is currently open. The closing date is 13:00 on Friday 8 January 2010. Please see the HTA website for details.
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Screening-related monographs already published
Expected publication dates of forthcoming monographs relating to screening
