Healthcare user group

Healthcare user group

Working with industry professionals to realise the benefits of GS1 standards.

The GS1 UK healthcare user group brings together sector experts responsible for GS1 standards adoption within their respective organisations.

 

Healthcare user group

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.

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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 adoption

Promote the adoption of GS1 standards across UK healthcare systems for providers and suppliers

Drive implementation

Drive implementation

Support implementation of GS1 standards to identify every person, product and place

Knowledge sharing

Knowledge sharing

Create a learning environment to benchmark and share ideas with other senior-level industry experts 

Advice and support

Advice and support

Offer support and advice to GS1 regional adoption groups throughout the process of standards implementation

Horizon scanning

Horizon scanning

Keep up to date with industry-wide changes and be responsive to the evolving healthcare landscape

Strategic guidance

Strategic guidance

Provide thought leadership, feedback, and advice, on GS1 UK’s healthcare plans and activities

Regulatory input

Regulatory input

Work with regulatory and NHS arm's length bodies, to support national and international standards activity

Standards management

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
  • Marc Saaiman, deputy head of procurement, South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Dave Harris, head of service – logistics and supply chain, NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster
  • 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
  • Jackie Pomroy, Independent Consultant 
  • Judie Finesilver, Independent Consultant
  • Jo Goulding, head of pharmacy and GS1 strategy, NHS England
  • 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 
  • 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
  • Frankie Wallace, data standards engagement manager, NHS Supply Chain
  • Tracey Herlihey, deputy director of patient safety (digital), NHS England
  • Anna Stec, senior project manager Scan4Safety England, and benefits realisation manager - Digital Clinical Safety Programme at NHS England
  • Richard McVeigh, ICT planning and performance manager, Health and Social Care Northern Ireland
  • Deniz Bruce, CEO, GMDN Agency
  • Graham Walsh, knee surgeon and medical director, Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber 
  • Paul Wright, standards implementation engagement lead (pharmacy), NHS England
  • Mark Kendall, e-health innovation and service development manager, Health and Social Care Northern Ireland
  • Nicholas Oughtibridge, lead architect, NHS England
  • Tracey Francis, Welsh reference data and terminology service management lead, Digital Health and Care Wales
  • Jasleen Rehal, senior analyst - medical technology, Department of Health and Social Care
  • Alistair Meek, source to settle systems solutions lead, NHS Shared Business Services
  • Mark Stevens, deputy director, Greater Manchester Procurement
  • Caroline Beecham, commercial & distribution director UKI, BD; and chair, GS1 UK supplier adoption group
  • Andrew Stradling, chief medical officer, London Procurement Partnership

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.

Want to know more?

Get in touch to find out more about our activities, or to enquire about joining one of our groups.