The GS1 UK healthcare user group brings together sector experts responsible for GS1 standards adoption within their respective organisations.
About the healthcare user group
The healthcare user group is made up of invited senior representatives from central healthcare organisations, trade associations, healthcare providers, regulators, and other related organisations.
The group meets quarterly, coming together to share ideas and best practice, and produce guidance documents, through the workstreams, to support organisations with standards adoption.
Chaired by Ian Townend, the group's purpose is to promote the adoption of GS1 standards throughout UK hospitals, supplier organisations, and partners, in line with:
Scope of work
Promote adoption
Promote the adoption of GS1 standards across UK healthcare systems for providers and suppliers
Drive implementation
Support implementation of GS1 standards to identify every person, product and place
Knowledge sharing
Create a learning environment to benchmark and share ideas with other senior-level industry experts
Advice and support
Offer support and advice to GS1 regional adoption groups throughout the process of standards implementation
Horizon scanning
Keep up to date with industry-wide changes and be responsive to the evolving healthcare landscape
Strategic guidance
Provide thought leadership, feedback, and advice, on GS1 UK’s healthcare plans and activities
Regulatory input
Work with regulatory and NHS arm's length bodies, to support national and international standards activity
Standards management
UK point of contact for the GS1 Global Healthcare Group and feed into the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP)
Meet the user group members
- Ian Townend, lead architect – standards and interoperability, NHSX, and HUG chair
- James Mayne, programme manager and Scan4Safety lead, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and GS1 UK Midlands adoption group representative
- Richard Price, Scan4Safety programme manager, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, and GS1 UK Southern adoption group representative
- Gillian Fox, product director – life sciences and healthcare UK, DHL Supply Chain
- Andrew Stevenson, chairman, British Healthcare Trades Association
- Luella Trickett, director, value and access, Association of British HealthTech Industries
- Clare Wells, eProcurement lead, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Rachael Ellis, Scan4Safety director, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Andrea Smith, director of procurement, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Marc Saaiman, deputy head of procurement, South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dave Harris, head of service – logistics and supply chain, NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster
- Liz Ashall-Payne, chief executive officer, ORCHA, and techUK health and social care council member
- David Lawson, director of medical technology, NHS policy and performance, Department of Health and Social Care
- Philip Graham, digital programme director, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Andy Smallwood, assistant director of procurement, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
- Lindsay Robertson, technology services manager, National Services Scotland
- Mark Songhurst, programme lead - Scan4Safety, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dr Julia Coombes, unit manager, product information quality unit, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Paras Shah, operations manager - medical devices, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Karen Mayor, deputy director for data and analytics, Department of Health and Social Care
- Jackie Pomroy, Independent Consultant
- Judie Finesilver, Independent Consultant
- Jo Goulding, head of pharmacy and GS1 strategy, NHS England
- Stef Curry, critical care scientist, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Simon Walsh, group procurement director and joint GM procurement lead, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trus
- Mark Vallentine, technology engagement partner, NHS Supply Chain
- Emmanuel Akinluyi, chief biomedical engineer and head of clinical engineering, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- David Wilson, safety strategy unit, Department of Health and Social Care Northern Ireland
- Andrea Smith, ICS procurement director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Simon White, national programme director, NHS Scotland Scan for Safety Programme
- Sarada Chunduri- Shoesmith, programme manager, NHS England
- Paul Wright, standards implementation engagement lead (Pharmacy) / principal terminology specialist, NHS England
- Jennifer Lambert, head of analysis, medical technology, Department of Health and Social Care
- Maxine Chappell, principal data architect and CTO – standards and interoperability team, NHS England
- Lee Jackson, managing director, North West London Procurement Services
- Frankie Wallace, data standards engagement manager, NHS Supply Chain
Workstreams
To support each of these areas of scope, we also establish smaller focus groups on specific workstreams. These are centred on a particular implementation use cases such as, inventory management, surgical instrument tracking, or asset management for example.
Here, our industry leaders bring together their expertise to help create useful guidance documents on each use case for GS1 standards implementation.
In addition to the healthcare user group guidance documents, you can find a host of related Scan4Safety and standards guides on our website.
Visit our resources page to learn more.
Meetings, agendas and minutes
Dates for our upcoming meetings are as follows:
- 6 September 2023, 10am–12pm (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, and virtually)
- 6 December 2023, 10am–12pm (Virtual)
As an open, transparent group, all meeting minutes are available below.
Minutes – June 2023
