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GS1 UK Healthcare User Group

Delivering interoperability and sustainability through Scan4Safety

The Healthcare User Group (HUG) is made up of invited senior representatives from healthcare trade associations, providers, suppliers, solution and service companies, and other related organisations.

The purpose of the HUG:

To promote the adoption of GS1 standards throughout the NHS, its suppliers and partners in line with the NHS Code of conduct for data-driven health and care technologies*, NHS digital data and technology standards, Government Digital Services Technology Code of Practice and the NHS eProcurement Strategy.

Adoption of the standards also supports adherence to the requirements of Medical and Invitro Diagnostic device regulations (MDR and IVDR) as well as Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) in the verification and tracking of Unique Device Identification (UDI).

*this will be changed to the Digital Healthcare Technology standard once released

The group is chaired by Ian Townend, lead architect – standards and interoperability at NHSX.

The scope of the HUG is to:

Drive adoption of standards across the NHS, starting with acute trusts in England
Support implementation of standards to identify every person, product and place
Create a sharing and learning environment
Offer support and advice to regional groups implementing our standards
Be responsive to the evolving healthcare environment
Provide feedback and advice on GS1 UK’s healthcare plans and activity
Work with regulatory and other bodies, to support national and international standards activity
Act as the UK point of contact for the GS1 Global Healthcare Group and to provide healthcare related feedback into the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP)

HUG meetings

2 February 2021 – Virtual meeting

HUG members

Ian Townend, lead architect – standards and interoperability at NHSX, and HUG chair
Jo Goulding, business product lead – pharmacy at NHS Digital, and HUG vice chair
Andy Crosbie, devices division at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Bayode Adisa, devices data and surveillance strategy manager – devices information and operations group at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Jan McDonald, group manager – access, information and medicines standards at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Neil Hind, procurement lead – corporate services, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP)
Sandie Bunyan, procurement lead GDE and GS1, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, and GS1 UK East of England adoption group representative
Tony Naylor, assistant director of information management and technology (IM&T) at North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and GS1 UK North East and North Cumbria adoption group representative
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 at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, and GS1 UK Southern adoption group representative
Vicky Green, offer to cash – commercial lead UK and Ireland at Medtronic
Gillian Fox, product director – life sciences and healthcare UK at DHL Supply Chain
Andrew Davies, director of hospital pharmacy, pharmacy and medicines optimisation team – improvement directorate at NHS England and NHS Improvement
Andrew Stevenson, chairman, British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA)
Andrew Davies, digital health lead, Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI)
AnnMarie Shaw, deputy head of procurement at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Rachael Ellis, Scan4Safety director, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Stuart MacMillan, programme lead, West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYATT)
Jackie Pomroy, Independent Consultant
Judie Finesilver, Independent Consultant