The federal council of Switzerland has passed the health strategy 2020 in January 2013. With 36 actions, the federal council plans to secure the quality of living, equality of opportunity, improve the quality of supply and increase the transparency. The goal is to adapt the health system to the new challenges and at the same time to keep it affordable. One of this goal is the reduction of not effective and not efficient services and pharmaceutical products, to improve the quality and to reduce the costs. Specifically, it is the goal to improve and strengthen the so-called Health Technology Assessments. The Federal Audit Office will be auditing the Swiss Health Technology Assessment processes of the Federal Public Health Office in September 2019. The Bachelor Thesis contributes to the preparation and execution of this audit.

- Literature research - Collection of interviews - Evaluation of the collected Literature and interviews

- Valuable background information about the HTA in Switzerland is provided - The independence of the FOPH HTA is being analyzed - The Swiss HTA process is being evaluated according to the principles of Drummond et al - The Swiss HTA is being compared with the HTA from countries that have proved to have very good HTA process such as Scottish Medicine Consortium and IQWiG in Germany - Switzerland’s involvement in the international HTA organizations is being evaluated - A recommendation if Switzerland should collaborate with Europe in the HTA area is being formulated. The client benefited as the Bachelor Thesis has given a good overview/comparison about HTA in Europe and made some valuable recommendations. It has helped in the preparation phase of the upcoming HTA audit.AI84