Annual report 2017

Brachy-HERO

With strong links to the HERO project, Brachy-HERO is a working group of Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie (GEC)-ESTRO, whose task is provide a health economics analysis of brachytherapy. Brachy-HERO set up a group of experts to begin a European survey on the cost of brachytherapy. Collected data from this survey will provide the basis for future analysis.

Pre-meeting with CCORE at ESTRO 36

At ESTRO 36, ESTRO-HERO and the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (CCORE) organised a workshop on health services research, with a focus on radiation oncology costs, cost effectiveness, needs and utilisation. The meeting, which was attended by 56 people, hosted a panel of international speakers and offered an overview of ongoing research in the field, enabling discussion between various research groups, and facilitating networking and collaboration.

Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) study

As part of the HERO project, ESTRO has collaborated with the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) on a report analysing the Belgian healthcare landscape, in which radiotherapy was chosen as one of the case studies. ESTRO contributed a chapter to the report, providing a picture of radiotherapy services in Belgium, including comparative examples of how radiotherapy services are organised in other European countries, including Denmark, The Netherlands, Ireland, France and the UK, and concluding with some recommendations. The main object of the KCE report was to make recommendations on the planning of equipment resources in the future, based on international recommendations and the HERO-forecasted need for radiotherapy in 2025.

KCE report downloadable at bit.ly/2pf8NRx Section on Radiotherapy Services pages 316-379.

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