High Cost Drugs Coordinator

The High Cost Drugs Coordinator will form an integral part of the multidisciplinary team approach in caring for patients diagnosed with severe chronic inflammatory dermatological diseases.

They will provide support to the Dermatology Consultant/Nursing team regarding the initial supply and on-going maintenance for the cohort of all patients receiving treatment of drugs charged directly to commissioners, including Biologic drugs and patients attending the Medical Day Unit for infusions.

The High Cost Drugs Coordinator will work in close unison with the Nurse Consultant/Lead inflammatory CNS/Clinical Nurse Specialists to ensure the coordination and management of patients at all points of their treatment but in particular will act as a point of contact for patients.

The post holder will work independently within the remit of the role while following the high cost drugs pathways/guidelines under the supervision of the Nurse Consultant/Clinical Nurse Specialists., 1. To work with Consultants and Nurse Specialists across Dermatology and the Pharmacy team to provide administrative support to the high cost drugs processes.
2. To facilitate the early transfer of patients to biosimilar medicines
3. To check timing and process follow-up appointments, including ensuring blood tests are up to date. To monitor patients through the patient pathway to ensure that care is provided in an efficient and timely fashion and in accordance with treatment guidelines.
4. To ensure that applications to Commissioners are made at agreed intervals in a patient's treatment to ensure ongoing approval of funding of supply of medication.
5. To establish and maintain systems and processes to monitor and report on the delivery of this growing service.
6. To respond to telephone and face to face enquiries from patients, Trust staff, Homecare Companies and Commissioners. To redirect and prioritise queries as appropriate, ensuring both efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery.
7. To work with suppliers to resolve any patient-specific queries or process issues.
8. To ensure repeat prescription requests are processed effectively.
9. To establish and maintain databases of patients receiving drugs recharged to Commissioners to enable effective on-going monitoring of patients as well as enabling both clinical and managerial audit.
10. To ensure correspondence with GPs and other medical professionals, both within and outside the Trust, is up-to-date.

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.

To support this, our five values are that we are all:

Caring - we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.

Safe - we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).

Responsible - all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.

Inspiring - we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.

Value each other - we all value each other's contribution.

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by Living Our Values Every day.