Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG)

Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) Recommendations

Multidisciplinary community based respiratory care services for patients with chronic respiratory conditions

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT)

Placental growth factor (PlGF)-based testing to help diagnose suspected preterm pre-eclampsia

Tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for patients with early breast cancer

Volatile capture technologies

Bacteriophage therapy for patients with difficult to treat bacterial infections

Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE-2) for the detection of colorectal polyps and cancer in adults

KardiaMobile® for detecting atrial fibrillation

Endobronchial valves for lung volume reduction in patients with severe or very severe emphysema

Elective surgery using mesh to repair primary or incisional hernias in adults

Closed loop systems and the artificial pancreas for type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM)

Complex endovascular aneurysm repair (C-EVAR) in patients with complex aortic aneurysms

FDG-PET (fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography) dementia imaging

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for people with severe aortic stenosis who are at low surgical risk

Vacuum bell device for people with pectus excavatum

Home blood pressure monitoring for people with suspected or confirmed hypertension

About this toolkit