The Evaluation and Planning Service of the Canary Islands Health Service (SESCS) is a unit dependent on the Directorate of the Canary Islands Health Service in the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. It is composed of a multidisciplinary group of researchers (economists, epidemiologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, statisticians, health service evaluators) founded in 1995, with the aim of reducing uncertainty regarding the incorporation, dissemination and appropriate use of health technologies in the Canary Islands. Since 2006, this activity has been extended to the whole of the Spanish state, through the incorporation of SESCS in the Spanish Network of Health Technology Assessment and Services of the National Health System (RedETS).

The mission of SESCS is to present scientific evidence that favors safer, more solvent and higher quality health care; equitable, accessible, affordable, global and sustainable; working with and for patients, professionals and health authorities, in order to guarantee the availability of understandable and usable evidence when making decisions for all actors in the health system.

SESCS is also dedicated to performing evaluative research activities regarding health services. The main lines of research focus on: the cost of the disease; the economic evaluation of health technologies; health-related quality of life (in common chronic diseases and in rare diseases); the evaluation of health services based on telemedicine and knowledge transfer; enhancing patient empowerment through the development and evaluation of decision support tools and the assessment of research needs from a patient perspective.

https://www.sescs.es/