Medical Writing Support for Health Technology Appraisal

The Client…

• the UK division of a global corporation with headquarters in the US and Europe
• had to deliver three NICE submissions with overlapping timelines causing a shortage of experienced medical writing resource
• was looking to improve channels of communications between the internal stakeholders

…so what we did was…

• help the Client to plan the individual document draft stages, and soon became the process owner for document production
• free up the Client’s in-house team to focus on the economic argument development
• apportioned Spectrum resources to write, edit and QC the clinical evidence sections, to meet the overlapping timelines
• facilitate inter-departmental review and input, and reconcile differences in approach
• assemble and harmonise the clinical-, cost-effectiveness and budget impact sections of the submissions, and compile all Appendices and references

…and the outcome was…

• all three dossiers were submitted to NICE on time
• the Client went on to develop in-house processes for document production modelled on the approach taken by Spectrum
• Spectrum was recommended by the Client to other companies with needs in the preparation of HTA dossiers

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