Drug Tariff Independent Advisory Panels: Part IX
The Independent Advisory Panels (IAPs) support the assessment of medical devices listed in Part IX of the NHS England and Wales Drug Tariff.
Role of the Part IX IAPs
The function of the Part IX Independent Advisory Panels (IAPs) is to provide expert and patient-informed recommendations in terms of product quality on product inclusion, renewal and removal from Part IX of the Drug Tariff. Part IX contains a list of appliances and chemical reagents approved by NHS Prescription Services on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for prescribing at NHS expense by an appropriate practitioner.
There are currently 2 advisory panels for Part IX of the Drug Tariff:
- IAP for point of care testing (POCT) and hypodermic equipment
- IAP for oral, dental, ear, eye and nasal (ODEEN) care
Further IAPs will be established to cover the future waves of renewals of products on Part IX of the Drug Tariff.
Membership
IAP for ODEEN care
- Ms Jas Khambh, Chair ODEEN IAP (Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Director, NHS London Procurement Partnership)
- Dr Sulaxni Nainani, Chair ODEEN IAP (Director of Primary Care and Community Services CQC)
- Dr Parnyan Ashtari (specialty dentist in head and neck cancer restorative dental services)
- Dr Davinder Bains (specialty dentist in oral medicine)
- Dr Ferouze Mattan (Chief Dental Officer clinical fellow at NHS Business Services Authority (BSA))
- Dr Mark Gribben (specialty dentist in oral medicine)
- Dr Manzoor Jaffar Shakir (specialty dentist in oral medicine)
- Dr Shalini Nayee (consultant in oral medicine)
- Neel Raithatha (audiologist and director, The Hear Clinic)
- Dr Emily Hocknell (ear, nose and throat (ENT) registrar)
- Mr Dimitrios Angelou (ENT registrar)
- Mr Don McFerran (consultant ENT surgeon (retired))
- Guy Thompson (negotiating principal, Medicines Value Unit, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership)
- Professor James S Wolffsohn (School of Optometry, Aston University, Birmingham)
- Professor Nicholas Rumney (Professor, Honorary Clinical Optometry)
- Mr Ziggy Shah (independent prescribing optometrist)
- Miss Meera Radia (consultant ophthalmic surgeon)
- Ms Kay Saini (senior pharmacist and independent prescriber)
- Mr Manpreet Saini (clinical pharmacist)
- Dr Daniel Crown (consultant ophthalmologist)
- Mr Daren Hanumunthadu (consultant ophthalmologist)
- Ms Pratibha Kumar Veeramani (consultant ophthalmologist)
- Ms Sumiya Neki (clinical pharmacist and independent prescriber)
- Dr Maria Eleftheriadou (consultant ophthalmologist)
IAP for POCT and hypodermic equipment
- Dr Partha Kar, Chair POCT IAP (consultant, diabetes and endocrinology, Portsmouth)
- Professor Rajeev Shah, Chair POCT IAP (clinical director, East London Foundation Trust)
- David Locke (lead medicines optimisation pharmacist)
- Sarah Jennings (registered general nurse, National Patient Safety Lead for Medical Devices NHS England)
- Liz Cross (advanced nurse practitioner in primary care)
- Dr Cheong Ooi (consultant physician in diabetes and endocrinology)
- Guy Thompson (negotiating principal, Medicines Value Unit, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership)
- Dr Hood Thabit (consultant diabetologist and senior lecturer)
- Dr Christopher Philbey (consultant physician in diabetes and endocrinology)
- Dr Maureen Wallymahmed (retired nurse consultant (diabetes) and senior lecturer)
- Sam Preston (lead nurse for independent health and social care sector, Royal College of Nursing, England - East Midlands)
- Terri Robinson (registered specialist biomedical scientist, POCT Manager, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group)
- Professor Enitan Carrol (Professor of Paediatric Infection and honorary consultant in paediatric infectious diseases)
Declarations of interest
Current vacancies
Email the Part IX consultation mailbox if you are interested in opportunities to join the panels: partix-consultation@dhsc.gov.uk
Terms of reference
The attached document sets out the IAPs’ terms of reference:
Minutes
No meetings have taken place.
Annual report
The IAPs for Part IX do not publish an annual report. The code of practice for scientific advisory committees sets out the content that should be published in an annual report. These are the committee’s purpose and activities, its membership and members’ interests, and a financial statement. All of this content, with the exception of a financial statement, will be recorded in the minutes of its meetings or published on GOV.UK.
The Part IX IAPs have not yet published a financial statement because there is very little financial activity so far to report. A statement will be published annually.