Procurement Conference

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Responsibility for setting the future UK Med Tech policy and implementation of the new Med Tech Strategy. SRO for the Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) and the Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP). Member of new Life Science Council advisory board on medical devices regulatory reform. Strong interest in supply chain, sustainability and enabling adoption of new innovation. Lead for implementation of largest deployment of automated inventory systems in Europe (2010) and lead for implementation of off-site consolidation centre (2019) and in-house wholesaler (2021). Procurement lead for South East London Pathology Programme (£2b) and NHS England Increasing Capacity Framework Agreement (£10b), both completed 2021. Launched the first Government Strategy for Medical Technology (2023). SRO for Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) and Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP). Accredited by the Government Commercial College September 2021 at Senior Commercial Specialist Level.

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Curtis Fallows is the Business Manager for the Diagnostics category at NHS Supply Chain, having worked for the organisation for 15 years primarily in finance and commercial roles with a bias towards procurement in recent years. Curtis started his career in the legal sector before moving into the NHS system, working primarily within the purchasing and supply area but also spending a brief spell working with patient transport for London.   As part of the Diagnostics leadership team,  Curtis leads on the data and analytics strategy for the area, with a focus on the NETIS programme working in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care.   Curtis has a passion for the NHS including a long-term strategic view of how the purchasing and management of medical equipment can be transformed to increase capacity and capability with a view that the NETIS system can be foundational in driving this positive change.

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Mark joined NICE in 2022 as director of HealthTech. This includes diagnostics, digital and medtech that can be implantable or assistive. Mark has 35 years of experience in the medtech arena. He initially trained as a Clinical Physiologist, and worked for 10 years within the UK NHS, Tertiary Cardiac Care, with a specialist interest in complex cardiac devices. Moving into Industry in 2001, holding various clinical and commercial roles. In parallel, he has held roles, including committee member on our technology appraisal programme. Is a past member of the External Advisory Board, University of Leeds EPSRC Centre for innovative Manufacturing of Medical Devices. Mark has also undertaken secondment within the UK Government, Office for Life science, Department of Business, as MedTech Policy Advisor. Since 2014 Mark was the Director of Health Economics and Commissioning for UK & Ireland at Medtronic.

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Mr Adam Peckham-Cooper is a Consultant Emergency General Surgeon and the Lead Clinician for the Leeds Institute of Emergency General Surgery at St James University Teaching Hospital, Leeds.

Adam’s clinical focus is on the acute management of complex biliary disease, hernias and all major acute and emergency abdominal surgical presentations. He is an advanced laparoscopic surgeon committed to managing this high-risk patient group with keyhole techniques and has developed novel management and triage pathways and strategies to manage emergency surgical patients in ambulatory and closer to home settings. He is the Director of Emergency General Surgery for Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and a national leader in this field.

He is passionate about the delivery of sustainable healthcare and particularly decarbonising surgical procedures and surgical care pathways. He led a Leeds based team to victory in a highly acclaimed national competition co-hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Health and Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) looking at the delivery of net-zero laparoscopic surgery and is now considered an expert in this field speaking globally on the subject.  He works closely with NHSE, DHSC and other stakeholders in this area, co-leads the sustainability theme for the NIHR Healthtech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care and is a sustainability champion at the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) researching and publishing widely on the subject.

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Dr Rory Turnbull is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Healthcare Mechatronics Laboratory at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. He brings expertise in medical device development, robotics, automation, and medical device regulation. Having completed his PhD in assistive lower limb exoskeletons, he has worked on various projects, including assay automation, nuclear pipe inspection robots, wearable device development, and medical device evaluation. Working alongside Professor Peter Culmer on the Sustainability Theme of the NIHR HRC in Accelerated Surgical Care, he applies mechatronics and automation techniques to the surgical environment.

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Jason is an Economic Advisor at DHSC and the Lead analyst on the MedTech Compass Project.

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Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pyrexia. A doctor, designer and software engineer by background, he has led teams at the junction of all three. With Pyrexia, Ali is building AI native software for healthcare's back office teams. Pyrexia's mission is to make life easier for teams across procurement, workforce, governance and finance. 

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Dr Ash Kalraiya Bio Ash worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon for a decade in the NHS and South Africa, plus in Malawi where he was a World Orthopaedic Concern Fellow. He founded MediShout after witnessing hospital operational problems preventing best patient care; for example when he cancelled operations due to faulty equipment or a broken theatre lightbulb. MediShout solves such problems by delivering the world’s first digital platform to integrate clinical staff, clinical engineering and healthcare suppliers; to improve operational workflow in hospitals. Ash has since become an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow.

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