This year’s recipients of the annual HCSA Awards were announced at a Gala Dinner at the Hilton Manchester, Deansgate on Wednesday night (23 November).
The Lord Mayor of Manchester was in attendance alongside more than 500 assembled guests as the awards were handed out.
The HCSA Chairman’s Award went to Chris Slater MBE, ICS Provider Procurement Director
West Yorkshire & Harrogate.
Chris came to the NHS when he joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals as Head of Procurement in 2004, where he quickly began modernising the department, bringing in an inventory management system and creating systems to analyse data and purchasing trends. Leeds went on to became one of the original six scan4safety demonstrator sites as he worked with clinical and operational colleagues to embed scan4safety across the Trust.
Chris was also instrumental in setting up and supporting collaborative working across West Yorkshire and over the past six years has led the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) collaboration and West Yorkshire ICS collaboration.
During the COVID pandemic, Chris was asked to support the set up of the Harrogate Nightingale hospital, creating a full supply chain solution for the 500 bed unit in less than four weeks. During this period, he also supported Leeds, West Yorkshire and Yorkshire & North east in procuring PPE and supporting mutual aid across the patch. Chris was subsequently awarded an MBE this year and retired in April.
The HCSA Awards 2022 also saw the first presentation of the Lord Philip Hunt Award - created in honour of our longest-serving President – which was given to the top delegate from this year’s HCSA PDP event - Rebekah Bradshaw from Collaborative Procurement Partnership. In addition, Katie Woods from Lancashire Procurement Cluster and Diane Andrew, from North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, were ‘highly commended’.
Congratulations to everyone who received an award this year and many thanks to all who put forth nominations in what was another very difficult year for the judges due to the calibre of submissions.
Full award winners details:
HCSA CHAIRMAN’S AWARD
Winner
Chris Slater MBE
ICS Provider Procurement Director
West Yorkshire & Harrogate
HCSA Procurement Team of the Year Award
Winner
Shropshire Healthcare Procurement Services
Highly commended
NECS Healthcare Procurement and Market Management Team
HCSA Cross Functional Collaboration Award
Winner
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership,
Procurement Services and Swansea Bay University Health Board:
Tackling Bed Poverty in Wales
Highly commended
NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster:
Releasing clinical time back to patient care in Emergency Department
Highly commended
University College London Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust:
QUINIAC MRI Procurement Team
HCSA Procurement Excellence Award
Winner
Rowena Thomas - Regional Supply Chain Manager,
Denbigh Regional Warehouse
Supply Chain, Logistics & Transport
(North & Mid Wales)
Highly commended
Clare Nash - Head of Clinical Product Management
Black County Alliance
HCSA Logistics Excellence Award
Winner
University Hospitals Birmingham
NHS Foundation Trust: Vaccines Programme
HCSA Clinical Procurement in Partnership Award
Winner
NHS London Procurement Partnership - Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Procurement (MOPP) Regional Homecare KPI Dashboard
Highly commended
NHS Supply Chain:
Clinically Led Value Based Procurement Project Results in NICE Guidance for Clinicians
Highly commended
NHS Commercial Solutions:
New Integrated Care Solution and Collaborative Approach to Topical Negative Pressure
HCSA Unsung Hero Award
Winner
Philip Adams-Howell
Senior Nurse - Clinical Procurement
University College London Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
Highly commended
Toshif Valley
Procurement Manager
NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster
Lord Philip Hunt Award
Procurement Development Programme Overall Winner
Rebekah Bradshaw
Collaborative Procurement Partnership
Highly Commended
Katie Woods
Lancashire Procurement Cluster
Highly Commended
Diane Andrew
North of England
Commercial Procurement Collaborative
Next year's HCSA Winter Conference will take place 28 and 29 November and will return to Manchester Central. Booking open in March 2023!