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New cancer medicines: Joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
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Break-out sessions
Delegates then split into four small groups for a series of ‘bite-size’ break out sessions, designed to stimulate discussion about important topics.
Chemotherapy tariff
Anne Hines (Network Pharmacist and Chair of the Cancer Network Pharmacists’ Group, Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network) talked about how cancer medicines are going to be funded in the future.
She explained how Payment by Results was going to be implemented for cancer medicines and how cancer medicines would have their own tariff system. Cancer medicines were likely to be banded into ten different health resource groups, which would affect the way that PCTs and trusts would charge each other for cancer medicines in the future.
Ms Hines highlighted the current challenges within the NHS of gathering reference cost information to allow for price setting and how this task has proven more problematic than originally thought. She indicated that it was likely to be 2011 before the new system was introduced.
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Discussion.