About our research
PACE is building better methods, data and processes for patient-centred assessment of medicines and medical devices, services and procedures.
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What’s the problem?
PACE – Patient Centred Evaluation of Medical Devices – responds to longstanding concerns that patient consultation can be ‘tick-box’ and ‘tokenistic’.
When funding decisions are made without considering patient preferences and their lived experiences, we may answer the wrong questions, measure the wrong outcomes and fund the wrong types of health technologies.
Patient-centred assessment of health technologies can improve population health. It is an important element of an inclusive and equitable health system.
Opportunities for change
Government and other stakeholders know we can do better.
They have:
What will PACE do?
PACE speaks directly to testimony from the recent Conversations for Change report that ‘tinkering round the edges of health technology assessment will not produce the results we need’.
PACE will improve how health technologies are assessed by involving patients and communities more deeply in the process.
Patient-centred health technology assessment requires:
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a patient-centred definition of what does and does not carry weight when assessing health technologies
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use of patient-centred measures of experience and outcome
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a patient-centred assessment of value.
PACE is working with patients, clinicians, decision-makers, industry and tax-payers to do better in every aspect of patient-centred health technology assessment.
Our focus
PACE (Patient Centred Evaluation of Medical Devices) is a four-part program designed to create fairer and more inclusive assessment of medicines, medical devices, medical services, and procedures.
Co-design with consumers to authentically empower the consumer perspective
Dedicated consumer evidence base using revealed and stated preference evidence
Methodological guidance to combine qualitative and quantitative evidence
New avenues for consumer collaboration using citizen juries and living labs
Our aims
PACE aims to create a more inclusive, evidence-based and patient-centred framework for health technology assessment that enhances the relevance and impact of funding decisions.
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PACE begins and ends with genuine consumer empowerment: from authentic co-design of our research to new avenues for consumer collaboration.
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PACE will embed real patient experiences and consumer data in the lifecycle of health technology assessment, ensuring that decisions better reflect what matters to people.
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Through innovative methods like citizens’ juries and living labs, PACE is helping to create fairer, more inclusive assessments that value lived experience alongside economic and clinical outcomes.