Medicines Frameworks and Reimbursement - Senior Policy Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Chwefror 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £54,444 i £66,054 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National = £54444 - £62324 London = £58542 - £66054 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Mawrth 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 390701/2 |
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In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you. |
This post is based in the Medicines Frameworks and Reimbursement Branch of the Medicines Directorate. The Directorate oversees the full range of pharmaceutical issues, including medicines pricing, patient access to medicines and prescribing. The Medicines Frameworks and Reimbursement Branch have specific responsibility to ensure community pharmacies are paid fairly while securing value for money for the NHS, sponsorship role of pharmaceutical wholesalers and lead for various medicine polices such as generic medicine pricing, information regulations which enable access to suppliers’ data and a national falsified medicine deterrent arrangements. The team works closely with NHS England and the wider NHS, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), arm’s length bodies such as the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) and mainly through their representative bodies’ pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers and community pharmacies. |
Job Description
The postholder will be responsible for a portfolio of policies across the team which support the safe and efficient supply of medicines to the NHS and ensure fair pricing of generic medicines, including:
- ensuring that community pharmacies are reimbursed fairly this includes administering the Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018 (Information regulations) which require anyone manufacturing, distributing or supply UK health service products to record, keep and provide information about those products. The data provided underpins the community pharmacy reimbursement arrangements and the Department’s ability to manage supply issues.
- Develop and Implement supply and pricing policies to support medicine supply shortage mitigations such as serious shortage protocol and pharmacists’ supply flexibilities.
- Develop and implement key policy ears such as generic medicine pricing policy and falsified medicines.
- The DHSC sponsorship of pharmaceutical wholesalers including ensuring that their interests are considered as supply chain policy develops and understanding their changing landscape especially with regard to increasing efficiency and service delivery.
Please note for the role to be offered on a part time basis, the successful applicant would need to agree to 0.8 minimum FTE.
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