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.

With over 30 years procurement & supply chain experience. Simon began his career in the Royal Navy and has worked in senior procurement & supply chain roles within the Pharmaceutical, Banking and Public sector, before starting his NHS career in the East of England at Basildon & Colchester Hospitals.

Now working in Birmingham, he is responsible for all NHS procurement activity across the Birmingham & Solihull Integrated Care System (ICS).

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.

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.

‘Moving Forward’ – these two words perfectly encapsulate Ben’s approach to his role as CEO of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Chain (CIPS).

In a world where supply networks increasingly sustain businesses, industries and economies, Ben believes that the procurement and supply chain profession must take centre stage and step up to lead from the frontline.

It is a big and bold step for the profession.

With his multifaceted experience as a leader in procurement, supply chain management, membership, digital transformation and operations, Ben is uniquely qualified to bring this ambitious vision to life.

His most recent position was Director of Operations, Planning and Delivery in one of the UK’s largest retailers – the John Lewis Partnership.

An illustrious early career and achievements in the military laid the foundation for Ben’s Ben’s distinct high-energy, high-impact style of leadership.

Achieving the rank of Colonel at a very young age, he served as Commanding Officer of the Irish Guards. In recognition of his remarkable service, Ben was awarded an MBE when he was just 29 years old.

Today, as Chairman of the Invictus Games Foundation Programme Board and Chairman of the Forces Employment, Ben is also a respected leader in the charity sector. He is the Founder and organiser of the Blackthorn Rally, an international motorsport rally for army veterans.

Ben has proven his ability to marry ambition with impact.

With the coincidence of technology advances, the increasingly interconnected world, climate risk, and geopolitical instability, he is determined to move the procurement and supply chain profession and CIPS forward into a future where they are global leaders, shaping the future of the planet.

Andrew is a partner and head of procurement within Hempsons’ specialist procurement law team. He has over 21 years’ experience of working with the NHS to provide pragmatic advice on running defensible procurement processes/defending procurement law challenges, and advising bidders on improving their chances of success/challenging processes.

Andrew led the team that worked alongside the NHSE policy team and NHSE legal team, advising on the development of the PSR and that supported 3 Trusts for the procurement of a pathology managed service contract, for which we won Best Legal Services Partnership with the NHS’ at the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards.

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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 a Partner at Capsticks and is the Head of Procurement and Deputy Head of Healthcare. Mary leads the procurement team and advises clients on a range of public procurement matters from day to day issues through to complex and strategic processes and procurement challenges. Mary also advises bidders. Mary regularly delivers training to clients and speaks at conferences on procurement. Mary has been supporting clients to implement the changes brought in under the Procurement Act 2023 and she has also advised on a number of processes under the Provider Selection Regime. Mary has previously worked in-house at NHS Supply Chain advising on the setting up of various framework agreements for health supplies. She therefore has in depth experience of working closely with public sector procurement teams in a fast paced environment.

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.

Having practised medicine for more than 20 years, Dr Andrew Stradling joined NHS LPP from his previous role as Clinical Director for an Integrated Care Partnership (ICS) where he has maintained a patient-facing clinical role alongside his leadership responsibilities.

Andrew has held senior leadership positions within the NHS, including working as Consultant in Emergency Medicine for many years, and has significant experience in launching new services, chairing local and regional boards and advising on healthcare systems in the UK and overseas. Andrew has also worked in an educational role alongside his clinical work, as an instructor and medical director for several national clinical courses.