Matthew is the Chair of the Board for the four acute hospitals that make up the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative – Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. He also runs his own consultancy, MJS Healthcare Consulting, through which he provides strategic advice on digital transformation and global healthcare to a small number of innovative companies.
He has spent his entire career in healthcare, most recently as Deputy Chief Executive and National Director for Operations and Information for the NHS in England. In this role he led the NHS's operational management, emergency response, major transformation programmes and the creation of Integrated Care Systems, to move the NHS away from a market system towards population health management. He was also responsible for the development of the NHS’s digital strategy and launch of the NHS app, which enables people to access their GP health record, interact with the NHS and provides the national vaccine passport.
Matthew’s NHS career started as an NHS supplies management trainee and includes a series of operational management roles in the NHS up to Chief Executive at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and as the NHS’s first Chief Information Officer. He then worked in government, firstly as head of the health team in the Prime Minister’s Office of Public Service Reform and then as special policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Health, during which time the government passed the smoking ban legislation and the NHS was identified as the world’s leading health system by the American think-tank, the Commonwealth Fund. After this, Matthew moved into the private sector and took his family to America to be Senior Vice President for global strategy and population health for Cerner, at that time the world’s largest dedicated healthcare IT company.
Matthew is President of the Health Care Supply Association (HCSA) and holds a Visiting Professorship at Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation.

Keith Rowley has been Managing Director of NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) NOE CPC, a wholly owned part of Leeds and York Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) since 2012. Through NOE CPC Keith is responsible for a range of services including the Collaborative Procurement Hub, the Hotel Services Category Tower and the shared Procurement and Logistics services delivered to LYPFT and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH). Prior to joining NOE CPC, Keith worked in the IT Services Sector for 14 years, where he covered a wide spectrum of roles including procurement, sales, marketing, and operations. Most recently Keith has been appointed Chief Officer of Health Care Supply Association (HCSA). Keith is particularly interested in ensuring the role of Procurement is valued and developed to ensure it continues to underpin the success of the NHS.

As Managing Director of KFM, Preeya Bailie brings extensive leadership experience and a strong track record of delivering transformative commercial strategies across the NHS and wider healthcare sector.

A respected leader in public sector procurement, Preeya is known for driving initiatives that prioritise sustainability, transparency, and value for money. Prior to joining KFM, she held senior leadership roles at NHS Improvement and NHS England, where she was instrumental in establishing the Provider Transformation & Operational Model and laying the foundations of the NHS Central Commercial Function.

She led the first National Energy Agreement, advanced the Commercial Efficiencies & Optimisation Programme and led the successful rollout of a single e-commerce system across the NHS. Her leadership on the Net-Zero Supplier Roadmap reflects her deep commitment to environmental responsibility and ethical, modern slavery-free supply chains aligned with the NHS’s 2045 net-zero goal.

A passionate advocate for collaboration, Preeya has brought together the national commercial community through strategic forums and capability-building programmes.

At KFM, a wholly owned subsidiary supporting the NHS and wider healthcare sector, Preeya is focused on driving innovation, ensuring value for money, and reinvesting benefits and cost savings to enhance patient care. Under her leadership, KFM is strategically positioned for sustainable growth, while remaining agile and responsive to the evolving needs of the health service.

Edward is the Director of Procurement at Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative, a newly formed single procurement function working across Hull University Teaching Hospitals, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole and York & Scarborough. Previously Edward worked at the Department of Health & Social Care, London Procurement Partnership and Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals.

Andrew joined NHS Supply Chain as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in September 2021 and has focussed on leading the organisation to deliver a broad range of value to the NHS.

Prior to this, Andrew was Executive Director for Procurement and Supply Chain at JCB and has also held senior roles at Magnox Ltd and Babcock International Group PLC.

Andrew has extensive experience in business transformation, total lifecycle cost management, customer and supplier engagement, and deploying technology to optimise operational performance.

An experienced commercial and procurement professional, Lois has supported various transformation programmes across the NHS. She is a Chartered Fellow of CIPs and currently leads the Commercial Capability and Best Practice team in NHS England’s Central Commercial Function. Lois also supports the delivery of the Strategic Framework for NHS Commercial to build a world class commercial function for our health system by leading on a number of interventions. Experienced in leading teams to deliver requirements in a proactive and innovative way, Lois is well respected across the commercial community and wider health network.

Barbara is an experienced procurement and commercial professional. Having worked in the NHS at local, regional and national roles for over 15 years and in the private sector for seven years prior, she specialises in leading large scale strategic programmes and creating more efficient processes and practices. She is currently responsible for delivering the NHS commercial capability programme that includes the transformational NHS Commercial Learning & Development Centre of Excellence which will eliminate disparity in investment and access to learning for the NHS commercial community.

Fiona is the Chief Commercial Officer (Interim) and Director of Medicines Value and Access at NHS England.

Since January 2025, as the Chief Commercial Officer (Interim), Fiona has been leading a national team of commercial professionals ensuring goods and services are delivered safely and efficiently, so that the NHS can focus on providing world-class patient care. Encouraging competition and market innovation to improve health outcomes, Fiona oversees significant commercial activity, of c.£30 billion spend across approximately 80,000 suppliers. Fiona delivers efficiency savings to ensure the NHS uses its resources effectively and maximises value for taxpayers’ money and is SRO for NHS Supply Chain. Together with key stakeholders, key priorities include implementation of the 10-Year Health Plan’s strategic ambitions, development of a Commercial Vision for Health and delivery of prioritised Strategic Framework interventions.

As Director of Medicines, Value and Access, since October 2023, Fiona has leveraged the health service’s considerable clinical and commercial expertise to ensure that patients across the country benefit from innovative and everyday medicines at cost-effective prices to deliver value for taxpayers from a £20 billion annual medicines budget. Over the past year Fiona has been focused on ensuring that the NHS is aligning its commercial approach to medicines at every level, capitalising on national ‘do once’ opportunities and the capabilities of local systems to improve the outcomes of the populations they serve.

Prior to joining NHS England, Fiona built a career in the pharmaceutical industry, holding senior commercial, marketing and value and access roles at multinational companies that partnered with the NHS and health systems around the world.

Karen Conway advances the role of supply chain to achieve a value-based healthcare system that optimizes the cost and quality of care, while improving both equity and sustainability in care delivery. She applies her knowledge of supply chain operations and systems thinking to align data and processes to improve health outcomes and the performance of organizations upon which an effective healthcare system depends. In 2020, Conway provided closing remarks for a G20 Summit pre-event on leadership to achieve sustainability in the health sector; she has also led the supply chain curricula at recent summits on health system recovery, health equity and ESG.
Conway is former national chair of AHRMM, the supply chain association for the American Hospital Association, and an honorary member of HCSA. She currently serves on the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) and the working group on forced labor in the healthcare supply chain. She has also served on the GS1 Global Healthcare Leadership Team and on the healthcare advisory board for CAPS Research.
Conway is a co-author of Strategic Management of the Healthcare Supply Chain (Wiley, 2023) and Leading from the Edge, a best-selling book on global leadership (ATD Press, 2013). Conway holds a masters in the Science of Healthcare Delivery from Arizona State University and a bachelors degree from The Colorado College.

Dr. Chung is Chief Medical Officer of Advantus Health Partners, an end-to-end supply chain company owned by Bon Secours Mercy Health in the US and Ireland. He is board certified in surgery and has practiced for over 20 years. He is a Certified Physician Executive and Past Chair of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM).

David Lawson is Director of Medical Technology & Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care having commenced the role in October 2022. In this role, Mr Lawson is the Government policy lead for Medical Technology with responsibility for the implementation of the Government's inaugural Medical Technology Strategy published February 2023. Key initiatives include the Design for Life programme, to promote circular economy; Value Based Procurement Methodology and associated MedTech Compass to support evidence based decision making and enable a Passporting System, to be adopted for MedTech procurement; NICE Multi-Tech Assessments of existing product categories; National Product Information Management System; National Outcomes and Registries Programme, National Equipment Tracking Information System, reform of the Part IX Drug Tariff which controls MedTech prescribed in the community. David is also SRO for the Innovative Devices Access Pathway bringing together MHRA, NICE, NHSE to provide enhanced support for novel technology that meets an unmet need, and member of the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) for the newly launched NIHR HealthTech Research Centres (HRCs) Network. Prior to joining the Department, Mr Lawson was the Chief Procurement Officer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust – a position he held for 21 years – and is a double winner of the Supply Chain Excellence Award in 2008 and 2021

Stuart joined the Department of Health and Social Care as their Chief Commercial Officer in July 2024, following a 30-year career in the private sector where he held commercial roles in financial services, professional services and retail in both the UK and USA. Stuart joined DHSC from Morrisons where he held a number of positions, most recently leading their Services division – running all of the group’s non-food and drink services, including their pharmacy business.

Tom is the founder of Procurement Protagonist Ltd and author of Procure Bites, a Procurement newsletter delivering insights to help Procurement Professionals.

Tom’s motivational speaking has come from his passion for Procurement and his experiences throughout his career in procurement, supply chain and buying roles with major brands including Nisbets, Clarks, The Co-0p, The Hut Group and Bibby Financial Services.

Andrew is a partner and head of procurement within Hempsons LLP’s specialist procurement law team. He has over 20 years’ experience of working with the NHS, acting both for contracting authorities and bidders.

Andrew utilises the knowledge gained from acting for clients on both sides of the fence to provide pragmatic advice on running defensible procurement processes/defending procurement law challenges, and also to advise bidders on improving their chances of success/challenging defective processes. Andrew is heavily involved in advising relevant authorities on the implications of the Provider Selection Regime and the new Procurement Act.

Andrew led on the successful and timely delivery of one of the first innovation partnership procedures under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and regularly advises on designing and structuring processes, drafting procurement documentation, and defending procurement law challenges. He also acted for the commissioner in defending the first NHS v NHS procurement challenge to reach the courts.

When acting for bidders, Andrew seeks to challenge processes, looking at areas where the bidder has been discriminated against. He has successfully overturned a number of procurement processes on behalf of bidders. Andrew successfully advised the two trusts in Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust & Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Lancashire County Council [2018] EWHC 1589 (TCC).

Mary is an experienced commercial lawyer with a particular focus on public procurement. She has extensive experience advising clients in a range of sectors including health, central government, local government, housing and utilities. Mary has experience of working in-house and has previously been Legal Counsel at DHL advising NHS Supply Chain on setting up framework agreements for health supplies and a commercial lawyer at the regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, where she advised on some of their most complex projects including Finance Yorkshire and the Leeds Arena.

Aldo Santo is the current President of the Association of Healthcare Supply and Procurement Officers (AHSPO) in Australia.

In this capacity, he champions national initiatives aimed at advancing healthcare supply chain efficiency and procurement best practices.

In addition to his presidency, Aldo serves as a Steering Group Member of the Australian Medtech Manufacturing Alliance (AMMA)—a collaborative network that connects industry leaders and peak bodies to bolster Victorian SME medtech manufacturers. Through his involvement with AMMA, Aldo plays a vital role in promoting innovation in healthcare delivery and supporting the growth of Australian-made medical technology.

A passionate advocate for local industry and improved patient outcomes, Aldo is committed to strengthening procurement pathways and fostering meaningful collaboration between healthcare providers and medtech manufacturers.

Andrew Taylor is the inaugural Chair of the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel. The Panel has been responsible for advising on procurement disputes arising under the Provider Selection Regime for health care services since the regime’s adoption in January 2024. In addition to chairing the Panel, Andrew is also a member of Ofgem’s Enforcement Panel for regulatory and competition matters and was, until recently, a member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the UK’s specialist court for regulatory and competition issues. Previously, Andrew was a partner in the consultancy business, Aldwych Partners, where he advised on numerous NHS and Foundation trust mergers, and was also Director of the NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel, which was responsible for advising on procurement, patient choice and other matters. An economist by background, Andrew has made his home in the UK since arriving from Australia in the late 1990s.

Peter was born and raised near Sunderland, and after graduating from Cambridge, started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery. He was then was Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the UK Department of Social Security, and NatWest Group. He was elected a Fellow of CIPS and was President in 2003. He founded his consulting firm, Procurement Excellence Ltd. in 2004 and worked extensively in the public sector, becoming a Senior Adviser to the National Audit Office. He has been a non-executive director in two large public sector organisations and now fills that role with a private company. From 2010-18 was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters Europe website, and has written five books, including “Bad Buying”, published by Penguin Business, and “Procurement with Purpose – How organizations can change the way they spend money NOW to protect the planet and its people”. His most recent book is NOT about procurement but he writes regularly on procurement topics for various websites and publications and also lectures at Skema Business School in France.

Richard Evans has been a Gore Associate for over 25 years, initially working on European commercial projects for Gore-Tex Technical  Fabrics as a Sales Leader, before relocating to Munich and then into a corporate role with a focus on leadership learning and development. Moving into the Medical Products Division in the Health Economics Team over 10 years ago and latterly moving back to the UK delivering value strategy for NHS Healthcare Providers across the Gore Vascular, Structural Heart and Surgical Solutions business units.

Helen Bunnell is a Principal Category Manager specialising in NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Health framework agreements.

Helen has over 15 years’ experience in Procurement having recently returned to NHS SBS from a role as Head of Procurement Contracting at the Countess of Chester Hospital delivering products, services, and capital requirements on behalf of the Trust.

Helen leads on the Acute and Community Health and Social Care Equipment Products and Services framework agreement and her experience in both NHS Trusts and at NHS SBS has given her a deep understanding of requirements to better support Customers.

Emma Clyne is a Principal Category Manager within the Construction and Estates category team at NHS Shared Business Services, with over a decade of experience in public sector procurement across both healthcare and education.

She leads several key framework agreements—including Linen and Laundry, Building Safety and Fire Compliance, and the award-winning Sustainable Healthcare Recycling and Waste Management framework agreement —supporting the NHS and wider public sector in achieving both environmental and financial goals.

Emma is a passionate advocate for sustainable procurement, aligning her work with the NHS’s Net Zero ambitions and driving forward initiatives that promote innovation, value creation, and measurable sustainability outcomes. She has collaborated closely with a range of NHS organisations to deliver procurement solutions that generate savings, improve operational efficiency, and support greener healthcare practices.

Leigha Woods is a Principal Category Manager within the Construction and Estates Category team at NHS Shared Business Services, specialising in Construction Consultancy with over 11 years of experience in category management across both the public and private sector.

In the private sector, Leigha held a global role managing multiple categories, and in her current role, she is Operational Lead on the Healthcare Planning, Construction Consultancy and Ancillary Services framework agreement, which features 174 suppliers and is heavily utilised by the NHS across a wide range of projects from 6 facet surveys to complex new builds.

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Colin Donald is a System Transformation Specialist at Smith+Nephew, where he leads initiatives that align clinical excellence with economic value across wound care services. With a background in NHS commissioning and transformation, Colin brings deep expertise in data-driven strategies that improve patient outcomes while optimising system efficiency. He plays a key role in delivering Smith+Nephew’s COMPASS Programme—a value-based care model designed to reduce costs, enhance service utilisation, and support sustainable healthcare delivery. Colin’s work reflects a commitment to measurable impact, empowering providers to navigate the shift from volume to value in today’s healthcare landscape.

Emma Marsden is a Procurement Business Manager within the Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative, hosted by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. She plays a pivotal role in coordinating procurement and supply chain services across multiple NHS partner trusts, supporting both clinical and non-clinical operations. With a focus on operational excellence, Emma oversees departmental management, ensures policy compliance, and champions staff development. Her work contributes to the delivery of high-quality, sustainable healthcare services across the region.