April 2025 HTA ESIG meeting - minutes

· April 9, 2025

Date/time

08-April-2025 13:00-14:00 CET

Agenda

  1. Admin updates (5min)
  2. Member/subteam/guest driven topic (35min)
    • Policy questions, intermediate endpoints & PRO’s (20min/Anja Rettlebach MSD - guest speaker)
    • Update from training subteam (15min/Anna Wiksten)
  3. SIG leadership model (15min/all)
  4. AOB (5min)

1. Admin updates

  • PSI/Moore: MS Teams collaboration solution for SIGs next steps
    • Test run Anders/Milana
    • Barebones Teams with a channel + files
    • Exploring with Moore if they can support e.g. meeting invites for SIG meetings

2. Member/subteam/guest driven topic

  • Update from training subteam (15min/Anna Wiksten)
    • Click here to download Anna’s presentation
    • Discussion:
      • Important to ensure that the prep work, logistics etc for those teaching is managable
      • Consider doing something like the Visualization SIG’s Wonderful Wednesdays in 2026 (contingent on an autumn 2025 pilot being succesful)?
      • For training for non-HTA statisticians, important to clarify what the SIG adds that vendors can’t (in particular, need to ensure diverse speakers for such an event)
      • Action Anders: follow up with PSI on webinar options including for a training track, loop in Anna
  • Policy questions, intermediate endpoints & PRO’s (20min/Anja Rettlebach MSD - guest speaker)
    • Lara presented Anja’s slides
    • Action all: Is there an interest in driving an HTA ESIG track to drive work on strengthening the evidence of correlation of non-OS endpoints (PROs) with PFS?
      • Could be an opportunity to get behind EFPIA initiatives + connect company needs/our day jobs with SIG/cross-company work
      • Katrin mentioned the cross-company SAVVY efforts as a potential inspiration
      • Will take the topic up again at next meeting to assess whether we can have a subteam on this

3. SIG leadership model

  • Anders stepping down as co-chair effective 06-May (after next meeting)
  • Opportunity to revisit the leadership model and source fresh perspectives
    • Rotational leadership (ISPOR style)?
    • How to best deal with admin aspects of SIG leadership?
      • Email list management
      • Meeting invites
      • SIG comms
    • Lara: supportive of rotational model, don’t switch out both chairs from the get-go to ensure continuity
    • Katrin: consider having maybe 3 people to distribute work
  • Temporary subteam to bring recommendations for May SIG meeting
  • Arthur, Katrin, Anders. Anders will set up a meeting.

4. AOB

  • Lara: please note that the ‘Additional documents’ section of the “Guidance on filling in the JCA dossier template” have been updated to also include a ‘structure folder for HTD dossier’ - available here https://health.ec.europa.eu/publications/guidance-filling-joint-clinical-assessment-jca-dossier-template-medicinal-products_en