Patrick Hopkinson

Patrick Hopkinson is a Global Market Access/ HEOR expert with over 30 years experience. He is an independent consultant, founder and managing director of PHTA Consulting.  He is a senior leader in the life sciences industry with extensive expertise gained from working across multiple functions in global pharmaceutical organizations at an executive leadership level. 

A former Vice President of Global HEOR at Bristol Myers Squibb he has a specialist focus in Market Access, HEOR, HTA Policy and RWE combined with extensive commercial experience including P&L responsibility. An HTA expert he has delivered multiple launches, over 400 submissions across ~35 countries overcoming HTA and Access challenges to optimize commercial performance. 

An EU HTAR expert he led the BMS enterprise readiness, was a member of the EFPIA HTA working group and is a regular speaker at key conferences. Patrick provides support for organizations preparing for JCA/JSC ie embedding requirements into  the product development process, cross functional working, JSC, PICO predication, JCA strategy, stakeholder planning and dossier submission.

He has been a member of key access policy working groups at EFPIA, PhRMA and ABPI, plus he served as a NICE Appeal Panel member for 10 years. Previously he worked at GSK in Global and Country roles and as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacist in the UK NHS. Patrick is a thought leader and regular conference speaker who is passionate about transforming the life science industry and health care stakeholder relationship by focusing on value and the sustainability of health care.