With Steven Albery joining the team and Richard Dixon-Ramsey returning from leave, we felt it would be helpful to signpost you to the individual procurement specialists in our expanded Pharmacy and Healthcare Services team who look after specific frameworks and areas of focus.
Joe Bassett, Assistant Director of Procurement – Pharmacy and Healthcare Services
Oversees the division. He is the regional homecare specialist for the East of England, works with a handful of systems and NHSE on enteral feeds and is Chair of the National Homecare Medicines Committee.
David Olusanya, Procurement Specialist – Pharmacy and Healthcare Services
Frameworks:
- Appliance Prescription Management Service (APMS)
- Homecare Medicines Services
- Nutrition Supply Services (Enteral Feeds)
- Stoma Care Nurse Sponsorship Service
- Wound Imaging Solutions
Julia Asplin, Procurement Specialist – Pharmacy and Healthcare Services
Frameworks:
- Compounded infliximab 2021
- Contrast Media and Barium Products
- Parenteral Nutrition
- Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Arrangements
- Radiopharmaceuticals (2023)
Richard Dixon-Ramsey, Procurement Specialist – Pharmacy and Healthcare Services
Frameworks:
- Hybrid Outsourced Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services
- Medical Gases
- Pharmaceutical Services
Areas of focus:
- Pharmacy automation
- Unlicensed imported medicines
Steven Albery, Procurement Specialist – Pharmacy and Healthcare Services
Frameworks:
- Aseptic Cleanroom Consumables and Laundry Services
- Specialist Pharmacy Courier Services
- Aseptic Isolators (new framework due to launch soon)
Areas of focus:
- Engagement with mental health and community trusts, to determine what more we can do to support you
- Engagement with trusts and suppliers about pharmaceutical packaging to gauge appetite for doing things differently
- Working towards tackling over-labelled packaging.