Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme
What is the Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme?
The Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme (MTEP) selects and evaluates new or innovative medical technologies (including devices and diagnostics). The programme complements and operates in conjunction with NICE's technology appraisal capacity, which evaluates new pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. MTEP helps the NHS adopt efficient and cost effective medical devices and diagnostics more rapidly and consistently.
The types of products which might be evaluated are medical devices that deliver treatment such as those implanted during surgical procedures; technologies that give greater independence to patients; and diagnostic devices or tests used to detect or monitor medical conditions.
What we do
The Medical Technologies Advisory Committee (MTAC) has two separate functions.
- to select those technologies for which NICE should produce guidance and then route the selected technology to the appropriate NICE guidance producing programme.
- to develop guidance on technologies which is issued by NICE as Medical Technologies Guidance.
Medical Technologies Advisory Committee (MTAC)
The Committee is comprised of 25 independent specialists with a broad range of medical technology and evaluation expertise. It is chaired by Professor Bruce Campbell, who has been the Chair of NICE's Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee since 2002 and has extensive experience of NICE's evaluation processes and guidance production. Read more about the Medical Technologies Advisory Committee.
Process and methods guides
Technologies notified to the Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme are selected and routed, and guidance produced, in accordance with the programme process and methods guides.
Contact us
Please send all enquires relating to the Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme to medtech@nice.org.uk
Related links
- MTEP supplement in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- 'How to judge the value of innovation' - BMJ Editorial
- New workshops to support medical technology companies
- Medical technologies guidance
- Notify a product to medical technologies
- Medical Technologies Advisory Committee
- The programme process and methods guides
- Innovation landscape
- Listen to Professor Campbell talk about the new Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme
- New programme to speed up use of innovative and cost effective medical technologies in the NHS
- NICE Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme welcomes new external assessment centre
This page was last updated: 17 May 2012
