Pharmacy, Medicines, and Specialised Commissioning in the new NHS

What changes can we expect to pharmacy, medicines management, and specialised commissioning in the new NHS?  Professor Inderjit Singh (Chief Pharmacist at University Hospitals Birmingham) joins Tom Clarke (Director, Mtech Access) to explore all this and more.

Professor Singh is one of the leading pharmacists in today’s NHS and is currently Chief Pharmacist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He has responsibility for the provision of the pharmacy service within the Trust and for ensuring appropriate governance of medicines. He provides strategic oversight into commercial pharmacy matters and strategic support to Heath Trust Europe, a collaborative procurement hub based in Birmingham.

This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar on Friday 26th March 2021.

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Chapters

• 2:50 How do medicines services work locally?
• 8:10 What do you hope will change for pharmacy with the development of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)?
• 15:10 When do you think you'll be using genomic testing and AI?
• 20:30 How will AI affect the role of the prescriber?
• 22:10 What impact will the introduction of aligned incentives have on pharmacy?
• 29:15 Value of medicines - What impact would a 5 year budget make?
• 31:00 What impact will the Commercial Medicines Framework have?
• 35:15 Where could industry support pharmacy and the NHS at the moment?
• 38:44 What's your view on the proposed national medicines registries?
• 41:00 How do you see Primary Care Networks playing a greater role in medicines?
• 42:45 What are the greatest opportunities to better enable access to the right medicines?
• 48:20 Is there a future for a tech first approach?
• 49:50 How easy is to bring systems and stakeholders together?