NHS Resolution re-starts oral appeal hearings
In our last Pharmacy Brief, we reported that PCSE had re-started
processing market entry applications in England. NHS Resolution
never stopped processing appeals, but it had paused the
determination of any appeals that needed to go to an oral
hearing.
Since then NHS Resolution has agreed to re-start hearings, but
they will only take place remotely via video conference.
Noel Wardle attended the first appeal hearing to be organised
under the new regime on 16th September. Apart from some
connectivity issues with a Panel member (and the odd occasion where
people starting speaking but were on mute!) the hearing went
smoothly.
It is not ideal for hearings to take place remotely: there are
non-physical cues and gestures that are missed when using
video-conferencing software and it is inevitably more difficult to
connect with people through a webcam. However, with no immediate
prospect of physical hearings resuming, the
