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.

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
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.