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Health Technology Assessment Programme
Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park, Chilworth, Southampton S016 7NS, UK.
The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) website at 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 are available free of charge for personal use.
You can order HTA journals from our despatch agent (Synergie UK) by fax (with credit card details); email; post (with credit card details or cheque); or telephone during office hours (credit card only). Additionally, the HTA website allows you either to print out your order or to download a blank order form.
Contact details of our despatch agent (Synergie, UK) are as follows:
Email: Tel (UK only*): +_44 (0)84 5812 4000-ask for ‘HTA Payment Services’ (out-of-hours answer-phone service); Fax: (UK only*): +44 (0)84 5812 4001-put ‘HTA Order’ on the fax header. Outside the UK please use these numbers: Tel +44 1256 467 771; fax +44 1256 840 383. Please note that only MasterCard and Visa payments can be accepted from overseas; Post: Synergie UK (HTA Department), Digital House, The Loddon Centre, Wade Road, Basingstoke RG24 8QW, UK.
Payment methods
Paying by cheque: If you pay by cheque, the cheque must be in pounds sterling, made payable to ‘University of Southampton’ and drawn on a bank with a UK address.
Paying by credit card: You can order using your credit card by phone, fax or post. We regret that, for the time being, it is not possible to pay by credit card via the website itself.
HTA Bulletin
If you have an email address you can subscribe to the HTA monthly email bulletin, by sending an email to:
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 DVD
This product has been designed for use with Adobe Reader software (version 7.0.9 provided on the DVD). Issue 28 appeared in April 2010. 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 13:00 on Thursday 30 September 2010. 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 dates are 7 October 2010 and then 1 February 2011.
For details of all funding opportunities in the HTA programme please see http://www.hta.ac.uk/funding
Screening-related monographs already published
Expected publication dates of forthcoming monographs relating to screening
