PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS- A TOOL FOR THE INCLUSION OF SOCIETY IN THE BRAZILIAN HTA PROCESS
Author(s)
Silva AS1, DA Silveira LC2
1Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil, 2Department of Management and Incorporation of Health Technology, National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation (CONITEC), Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil
The participation of society in HTA is crucial and needs to be implemented. In the last years, it has been analyzing, discussing, and questioning how to actually introduce the public’s participation into HTA processes within the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) perspective. In 2011, Law 12,401 was enacted, making the participation of civil society official within the process of incorporating technologies in the health system through: the participation of a representative of the National Health Council (CNS) on the National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation (CONITEC); the execution of a Public Consultation (PC) for each theme evaluated by CONITEC; and through a Public Hearing prior to final decision-making, in case the relevance of the matter should justify such a hearing. The aim of this abstract is to describe the activities which are being developed after a study published in 2013 which identified proposals for improving the mechanisms of society’s involvement in the processes of the assessment and incorporation of technologies into the SUS. Many of these proposals, among others, are being implemented by the Executive Secretariat of the CONITEC. Some of those proposals were to improve its disclosure and to attain a better use of social media. We started to disseminate information regarding PC through social network, website and mailing lists to the interested audiences, in addition to producing reports in an appropriate language for patients, which was another proposal made previously by the cited study. Furthermore, a new PC form was especially created in order to report the society’s perspective (patients, caregivers and health professionals’ experiences) and a Guide to HTA for Patients is also being produced. Public Consultations as a tool for the inclusion of society in HTA is legitimate and innovative; improve this will increase Patient and Public Involvement in the Brazilian HTA process.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2015-11, ISPOR Europe 2015, Milan, Italy
Value in Health, Vol. 18, No. 7 (November 2015)
Code
PRM278
Topic
Methodological & Statistical Research
Topic Subcategory
Confounding, Selection Bias Correction, Causal Inference
Disease
Multiple Diseases