Co-design Working Group for the HTA Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process

The Co-design Working Group (CWG) formed in November 2023 to support the co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The group worked to improve how we include the views of consumers and patients earlier in the medicines listing process.

Role

The CWG formed to work on the co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process. This is one of the main commitments in the 2022–2027 Strategic Agreement (clause 6.3.2) as part of improving health technology assessment. This co-design process aimed to improve how we include consumer and patient perspectives during the medicines listing process.

The CWG: 

  • found opportunities along the health technology pathway where consumer engagement may inform and improve HTA committees’ decision-making processes
  • developed these into proposed recommendations for enhanced consumer engagement
  • held open consumer and other stakeholder consultations for feedback on the proposed recommendations
  • decided on final recommendations for an enhanced consumer engagement process informed by the consultation feedback
  • created a final report with their recommendations.

Members

We chose members after an expression of interest process for consumer representatives. The group includes a range of consumer, industry and department representatives. 

Member Role 
Sharon Winton (Chair) Consumer representative 
Genevieve Handley Consumer representative 
Nicole Millis Consumer representative 
Cara Philpott Consumer representative 
Karen van Gorp Consumer representative 
Hayley Andersen Industry representative 
Petrina Keogh Industry representative 
Liz Marshall Department representative 
Rebecca Pitman Department representative 

Meetings

The CWG held different workshops scheduled between November 2023 to June 2024. These were to:

  • design and develop recommendations for the co-designing process
  • prepare the consultation
  • review consultation feedback
  • create the report of recommendations for the enhanced consumer engagement process.

Read the CWG communiques for more details about their activities.

Communiques

Contact

HTA Consumer Evidence and Engagement Unit

This unit helps consumers and patients to be part of health technology assessment (HTA) processes. It also supports the Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee.
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