Expert Pharmaceutical Assessor (CDF)

Job description

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research. The objective of the Healthcare Quality and Access Group is to drive quality and critically appraise benefits and risks to inform robust decisions on healthcare access including accelerated access pathways. It will do this by bringing together a fusion of our capabilities across both medicines and medical devices to enable licensing and market access, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations and standards. What’s the role?: The Established Medicines function within the Healthcare Quality and Access group delivers a risk appropriate critical appraisal of quality, safety and efficacy of healthcare products that are vital to the NHS and wider population, determining whether a product’s benefits outweigh the risks. This includes our work on established medicines, complementary medicines, self-medication, parallel imports, and unlicensed imports. This enables access whilst ultimately reducing costs to the healthcare system and delivering positive patient benefi...