Hub Pharmacy Training - Pharmacy Outsourcing 

Venue: Victoria House, Capital Park, Fulboun, Cambridge. 

About the Seminar

This training session is hosted by the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub and will be led by Sharon Renouf, Partner and Head of Health at Bevan Brittan and Lucinda Price, an Associate at Bevan Brittan.

It is free to NHS staff who work in any area of Pharmacy, Procurement or related fields.

This seminar will look the approach to procurement around pharmacy outsourcing, in view of limited number of market players, and will examine            Trusts need to do/prepare in order to go to market. 

The key commercial issues are as follows:

• Contract term;
• Ensuring that a detailed mobilisation plan is developed with the provider, to ensure an efficient and clinically safe handover of the services, within timescales acceptable to the Trust;
• Ensuring exemption from VAT of medicinal products dispensed by the provider, and minimising VAT-risk in the contractual provisions;
• Components of the payment to your provider;
• Robust payment mechanism:  concise and well described KPIs and associated reporting requirements and thresholds, and sanctions for non-compliance;
• Obligations in the contract to ensure that the provider complies with the pharmacy regulatory regime;
• Commercial terms for any ancillary income generation activities (e.g. retail outlet);
• Clear provisions regarding cost and depreciation of assets;
• Lease provisions that interface with the services contract and adequate estates provisions and facilities management where both Trust and private sector facilities are used;
• Ensuring the application of TUPE and any pensions implications are dealt with at an early stage of any procurement;
• Detailed exit arrangements including exit-TUPE indemnities; 
• Robust and effective remedies for breach of contract.

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