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What we do


Our Aims

  • To provide research based comparative evaluations of medical and assistive technologies.
  • To disseminate findings widely to help users and health and social care professionals with selection, choice and purchase of technology.
  • To focus our approach around the needs of people who use medical and assistive technology.


Our Outputs


ATEC produce commissioned outputs for CEP including:

  • Evidence reviews
  • Evaluation reports
  • Buyers'guides
  • Evaluation protocols


We work closely with:

  • National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
  • Collaborative Procurement Hubs
  • NHS Supply Chain
  • Acute Trusts and PCTs
  • Professional bodies


How does our research help you?

Our report findings are integral to NHS and social services procurement processes.

We are supporting key stakeholders to address health priorities as follows:

  • providing independent evidence to assist effective decision-making on procurement
  • forming strategic partnerships to enable better adoption of innovation
  • proactive focus on understanding priority issues from a grass-root and higher level
  • economic reviews/cost benefit analysis to help implement efficiencies
  • encouraging uptake of innovations within the NHS
  • identify issues requiring further research and development
Details of recent and current work can be found on the Evaluation page.