Officially supported by key buying organisations such as NHS Supply Chain, P4H England 2019 will provide a unique platform for both buyers and suppliers to engage across a range of interactive and educational features, all designed to enhance collaboration in support of driving greater efficiencies and savings across England’s £27bn+ NHS procurement marketplace, complimenting key initiatives such as The NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS Supply Chain Operating Model.
Held over a single day, P4H England is set to welcome over 1400 key decision makers, representing England’s healthcare procurement and supply chain community.
The World’s Greatest Living Explorer
The World’s Greatest Living Explorer
-The only man alive to have travelled the surface of the World’s polar axis - Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface (more people have been on the Moon!) His record-breaking expeditions include travel by riverboat, hovercraft, manhaul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover and ski... Now he's taking on a new record-setting challenge, the Global Reach Challenge, to raise funds for Marie Curie. By completing the challenge he'll become the first person to have crossed both polar ice caps and climbed the highest mountains on each continent. To date Ranulph Fiennes has raised over £18.3 million for different UK charities including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the British Heart Foundation and Marie Curie Cancer Care. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been named the UK’s top celebrity fundraiser by Just Giving, the UK’s most popular online fundraising platform. He has raised more than any other celebrity fundraiser featured on JustGiving.com during the same period. To date he has raised £8.3 million for Marie Curie.
Customer Engagement Director
NHS Supply Chain
Customer Engagement Director
NHS Supply Chain
Prior to joining the new NHS Supply Chain he was UK Managing Director for Clarks, Chief Marketing Officer at Argos and General Manager for all consumer-facing products for the Walt Disney Company in Italy, where he lived and worked for 5 years. He has also performed various commercial and marketing roles for Mothercare, Blockbuster and Woolworths. Stephen started his career with Gillette before joining British Airways where he re launched the Club World Brand in the early 90’s. He has an established track-record in repositioning and relaunching several businesses and brands, where his impact has been responsible for driving revenue and market share to record levels.
Managing Director
NHS London Procurement Partnership
Managing Director
NHS London Procurement Partnership
Michael Pace has recently been appointed as Managing Director at NHS London Procurement Partnership, with a focus on building a new vision and strategic direction for the organisation. He has a passion for the NHS, and is committed to ensuring that NHS LPP plays its part in delivering value and savings for the health sector. “Part of our strategic vision is to align objectives between NHS LPP customers and suppliers to ensure efficient synergies between supply and demand for the benefit of the NHS, patients and the public” Prior to accepting the role at NHS LPP, Michael was part of a senior category team responsible for the implementation of the new NHS Supply Chain Operating Model. His continued close working relationships with key stakeholders supports our organisational aim to ensure collaboration and partnership working. With over 30 years of senior procurement experience, Michael has led both global and UK-wide projects in the retail and manufacturing sectors before joining the NHS. Working in both the United Kingdom and North America, Michael’s approach has delivered significant savings for blue-chip clients and improved quality across all environments.
Professional Lead Infection Prevention and Control/AMR
Royal College of Nursing
Professional Lead Infection Prevention and Control/AMR
Royal College of Nursing
Rose is The Professional Lead for Infection Prevention and Control and RCN lead for Sustainability at the Royal College of Nursing. Based in the Nursing Dept, she provides strategic leadership and specialist professional advice to the Royal College, its members and key stakeholders across the UK on Infection Prevention and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the implications for Nurses and Nursing. Rose is a member of the PHE Rapid Review Panel which evaluates products for use in the NHS on the basis of scientific evidence to support claims of improved efficiency or efficacy of infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions to reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAIs). Rose leads the RCN’s work on procurement through the ‘Small Changes Big Differences’ programme. Rose was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthdays Honours list for services to Infection Prevention and Control in her role at the Royal College.
Procurement Lead, Corporate Services
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Procurement Lead, Corporate Services
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Neil Hind is an experienced procurement professional currently leading on the procurement workstream for the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. Previously he has held the roles of the Head of Procurement for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Head of Procurement at NHS England.
Director of Procurement & Supply Chain
UCLH Procurement & Supply Chain Directorate
Director of Procurement & Supply Chain
UCLH Procurement & Supply Chain Directorate
Pia Larsen has had a career in the NHS spanning over 9 years, working at large acute trusts including The Royal Free London, Oxford University Hospitals and in recent years as the Director of Procurement & Supply Chain at UCLH. She has worked progressively to build a high performing, award winning team that has step changed the performance and reputation of procurement within UCLH. She is passionate about leadership, collaboration and diversity, founding UCLH’s first Women’s Network in 2016. Pia is committed to driving value to the organisations she works within through innovative and value driven procurement activities supported by a strong focus on people and engagement. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and the current Chair of the Shelford Procurement Director’s Group.
Group Procurement Director
Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
Group Procurement Director
Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
As Group Procurement Director for Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, Joe is a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who seeks to deliver value for money through effective negotiations with suppliers and robust procurement processes which provide quality products/services at cost effective prices, as well as strong contract management with key suppliers. He is a skilled procurement professional who engages with key stakeholders to deliver innovative outcomes to ensure the delivery of the highest quality of healthcare for patients. Joe is vastly experienced in project management, ensuring that from project initiation the scheme is delivered and implemented to meet the expectations of customers.
Chief Procurement Officer
NHS Improvement
Chief Procurement Officer
NHS Improvement
Preeya Bailie started her new role as the new Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at NHS Improvement in 2018, leading the delivery of Procurement improvements across providers for NHS Improvement. Preeya takes over from Kate Greenbank who has been leading in this role, as interim, since November last year. Preeya Bailie joins from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust where she was the Associate Director of Procurement, responsible for all non-pay expenditure excluding pharmacy. In her time at there, Preeya worked closely with all stakeholders to involve them in procurements, rationalisation of products, to switch to better value products and introduced new initiatives to save the trust £4.3million in her first year. Preeya brings a breadth of public sector procurement experience including the establishment of frameworks, outsourcing of services, setting up of joint ventures and programs for income generation. She has created and developed procurement functions. Preeya is a big advocate of the STP and collaboration, and has worked closely with her NHS colleagues to benefit from economies of scale where appropriate. We welcome her to the team at NHS Improvement and look forward to Preeya leading the NHS through the changes over the next few years and the delivery of significant Cost Improvement Programme Initiatives that are required.
