0202411110603
Medical Services Advisory Committee - Expert Standing Committees Description: The Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) has several Expert Standing Committees (ESCs) which provide specialist advice and make recommendations to the MSAC on a range of medical services and technologies. The ESCs are composed of experts in various fields of medicine and health technology assessment.
STARDIT ID:
STARDIT ID:
0202411110603
Dates
State ongoing
Start 1998-01-01
Form updated 2024-11-12
Report authors
Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
0000-0003-0316-3254
Location
Australia
Aims
provide specialist advice to the MSAC
make recommendations on medical services and technologies
assist in the assessment of the safety, clinical effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of medical services
Keywords
medical services
health technology
assessment
advice
Category
research
Inputs
organisation
Department of Health (link)
Task: Funding, providing resourcing for organisation and Secretariat support
group of individuals
Expert Standing Committee Members (varies) (link)
Task: Assess items
Compensation: paid
individual
Professor Kwun Fong (link)
ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6507-1403
Task: Chairing meetings
Method: Appointed as Chair
Compensation: paid
Information correct as of 15/10/2024 - http://www.msac.gov.au/internet/msac/publishing.nsf/Content/esc-membership
Outputs and impacts
other
Application decisions (link)
Impact: Impacts and informs Federal Government decision-making on health technology assessment, by providing advice to Government on whether a new medical service should be publicly funded (and if so, its circumstances) on an assessment of its comparative safety, clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and total cost, using the best available evidence.