The Pan Mersey APC is a professional group consisting of GPs, pharmacists and other key healthcare professionals. It seeks to identify and champion the best use of medicines taking into account cost effectiveness, quality, equity and above all, patient safety.
The Committee is responsible for making recommendations of medicines, especially high cost medicines, across the Merseyside and Warrington footprint.
Impacts over the past year include, amongst others:
28 NHS organisations are APC members
A website created to offer national and regional information on COVID-specific medicines issues
22 new medicines reviews and policy statements
1 guideline and 5 formulary updates produced by safety subgroup
11National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal reviews.
We have been working in collaboration with the APC providing medicines care system support.
Supporting ICSs with approaches to design and deliver effective communication, engagement and behavioural insights as a key enabler for system change and…
Acting as an independent and trusted partner within the system to facilitate working across stakeholders and integrate elements of the provider system…
Digitising care and partnering with systems for the transformation of digitally enabled service delivery (and other supporting processes) across vision, planning and…
Supporting systems to build a sustainable and integrated workforce, transforming systems, organisations and the workforce experience to improve resilience.
Providing end-to-end funded care services, including patients as active partners in identifying their healthcare needs and then commissioning care to meet these.…
Applying intelligence-led understanding of the health of the population to support the redesign of care and improve patient and financial outcomes across…
Supporting providers to work together at a place and neighbourhood level to manage common resources, integrate community teams, improve health and reduce…