Pharma Market Access Insights - from Mtech Access

How is the NHS preparing for winter? Which challenges are the most pressing for NHS decision-makers? How can industry best engage and support NHS decision-makers in the next few months?

In August, Karen Cooper (Senior Consultant – NHS Insight & Interaction, Mtech Access) was joined by Jo Turl (Former Director of Commissioning, Devon ICS) to explore these challenges.
Jo and Karen discuss:

• How ICBs and Directors of Commissioning prepare for winter pressures
• The current key areas of focus at Place and ICB level
• Specific challenges and pressures facing the NHS now and in the run up to winter
• Immediate and long-term impact of (expected) new government policies
• How industry can best support the NHS as it plans for winter and beyond
• How your field teams can engage with NHS commissioners over the next few months

This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in August 2024.
Learn more at https://mtechaccess.co.uk/nhs-winter-planning/
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Population health management is often talked about in top-down terms, but how seriously will the needs of individuals be taken as systems develop? How will personal needs inform care delivery? Why will the patient voice play a very different role in the NHS of the future?
Steph Edusei (Chief Executive of St Oswald’s Hospice) joins Tom Clarke (Director, Mtech Access) to explore these questions and more.
This episode was first released as a live webinar on Friday 21st May 2021.
For more information visit: https://www.mtechaccess.co.uk/population-health-development-webinar/
Steph Edusei has held the role of Chief Executive at St Oswald’s Hospice since May 2020. The hospice provides specialist care for adults, babies, children and young adults from across the North East of England and takes a proactive approach to integrated care, working with other NHS providers in the region and the wider population.

Prior to this, Steph was Chief Executive of Tell us North, the organisation that run Healthwatch Newcastle and Healthwatch Gateshead, giving her extensive experience in local healthcare and how this integrates with wider NHS systems. She has also held a wide variety of leadership and senior operational positions, including Interim Deputy Chief Executive at Newcastle Council for Voluntary Services; Authorisation Development lead and then Strategic Head of Corporate Affairs at NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Assistant Director, Commissioning at NHS North of Tyne, and Assistant Director of Operations at North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Rarely does one come across an individual with such a breadth of experience across so many different services supporting population health.
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In this 'Questions Time' special we welcome a broad panel of practitioners from across the NHS to explore the themes of care delivery, collaboration, innovation and governance. Our panellists are:

• Cameron Ward (Interim Director of Strategy and Outcomes, Sefton CCG)
• Hilary Snowdon (Management Lead, West Northumberland PCN)
• Patrick McGinley (Head of Costing & SLR, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust)
• Dr Su McCole (GP & Area Clinical Director)

This episode is part of our COVID-19 series, where Tom Clarke (Director - NHS Insights & Interaction, Mtech Access) asks experts holding operational, strategic and clinical roles across the NHS to share their experiences and insights into how the NHS has responded to COVID-19 and the wider challenges facing the health service.
In this special 1-hour episode, our panellists explore:
Care delivery:

• What will happen to elective procedures over the next few months - how will they be prioritised & delivered?
• How will services begin to mobilise themselves while the threat of a second (and subsequent) wave remains?

Collaboration:

• What are the highlights you have seen locally in approaches to collaborative working?
• Do you think trust has been built in partnership working that will continue post COVID, both within the NHS and with external partners?
• What has been your experience of working with the pharmaceutical industry during this COVID pandemic?

Innovation:

• How will innovations that have happened during COVID be evaluated so the best ones are kept?
• What elements of the remote care used, evolved or developed during the pandemic will become standard elements of NHS care, and in what time frame?
• What risks are attached with the innovations we have seen during COVID?

Governance:

• What lasting ‘relaxation’ effects on NHS governance (engagement; medicine trials; budgets etc.) do you anticipate as remaining post pandemic?
• What part do you expect the NHS to play in covering the ‘COVID bill’ that the country has been left with?

This episode was originally broadcast on 5th June 2020 as a webinar. This podcast series has been converted from our webinar series 'How is COVID-19 impacting the NHS?'.
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How can real-world evidence (RWE) support health technology assessment (HTA)? Can real-world data (RWD) supplement clinical data? How can RWE be used to solve common challenges with treatment comparison?
Here, Mtech Access are joined by experts from Arcturis and Delta Hat. Dan Howard (Associate Director – Health Economics, Mtech Access) shares some of the challenges that our clients face when developing HTA-ready health economic models with limited clinical trial data. Joseph O’Reilly (Principal Medical Statistician, Arcturis) introduces solutions to these challenges using RWD and RWE approaches. Nick Latimer (Analyst, Delta Hat; Professor of Health Economics, University of Sheffield; former NICE Appraisal Committee member) discusses how RWE is assessed by HTA committees. Samantha Gillard (Director – HTA, Mtech Access) facilitates the discussion and puts your questions to our experts
This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in October 2024. To request a copy of the slides used or to learn more visit: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/rwe-approaches-economic-modelling-hta/
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Will NHS leaders, as part of an Integrated Care System (ICS), make conscious decisions to drive economic and social change?
What social and economic value do ICSs offer the wider population they serve? How will industry support ICSs to deliver population-based health and social benefits?

Prof Phil Richardson (Chair and Chief Innovation Officer, Mtech Access) is joined by Michael Wood (Head of Health Economic Partnerships, NHS Confed) for a far-reaching discussion around system integration, population health management, and the NHS’s social and economic potential.
In December (2022), Michael Wood authored a report exploring one of the four key purposes of an ICS: to help the NHS support broader social and economic development. Michael’s NHS Confed report looked at the economics of healthcare and where broader strategic partnership working might lead system thinking in the NHS.
Phil Richardson was one of several experienced ICS, local authority, university and professional experts that Michael invited to share their perspectives in the report.
We were delighted to bring Michael and Phil together in this webinar to discuss these topics, particularly in light of what these new leadership purposes mean for the NHS’s relationship with the Pharmaceutical and wider Life Science industries.
In the webinar, Phil and Michael discuss:

• NHS Confed and the links between the health sector and the economy
• The need for ICS leaders to focus on broader social and economic development
• How Pharma and Medical Device companies can add value to support this key ICS purpose
• Why health and economic development is key to tackling health inequalities
• The important role the NHS plays as an anchor institution that links better health with economic and social development
• What health and economic development could mean for funding at different levels of an integrated system – e.g. place based commissioning
• Opportunities for industry to step up and support the NHS with economic and social development

Learn more about this webinar here
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This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in January 2023

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