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LETTERS: Peter N Furness Introducing new health interventions: Diagnostics is the Cinderella of health technology assessment BMJ 2006; 332: 235-b-236-b [Full text]

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Re: 'Diagnostics may well be a Cinderella, but not of health technology assessment

John Gabbay, Tom Walley   (1 February 2006)

Re: 'Diagnostics may well be a Cinderella, but not of health technology assessment 1 February 2006
John Gabbay, Professor Emeritus Wessex Institute for Health R&D, University of Southampton SO16 7PX, Tom Walley Send response to journal: Re: Re: 'Diagnostics may well be a Cinderella, but not of health technology assessment	We would refer you to our rapid response to this letter that appears in the correspondence related to our original article (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/332/7533/64#127234), since the system doesn't seem to refer readers to it from here. There we make the point that although it may be true that diagnostics are relatively neglected by policy makers and health service funders, the accusation cannot be sustained against the NHS HTA Programme, which - as we document in our letter - has devoted a great deal of attention to diagnostics. Competing interests: JG was Director of the NHS National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment 1998-2004. TW is Director of the NHS HTA Programme