David Lawson

Procurement lead for Guy’s and St Thomas’ since 2001 and procurement shared service including three other NHS Trusts.  Double winner of the Supply Chain Excellence Award for Supply Chain Innovation (2008) and Urban Logistics (2021) and led the deployment of the largest implementation of automated inventory systems in Europe (2009) and establishment of an off-site supply chain hub (2019).  Led the procurement for the £2bn South East London Pathology Transformation awarded in 2020 and the £10bn NHS England Increasing Capacity Framework awarded last year.  Member of the GS1 Health Advisory Board.  Accredited at Senior Commercial Specialist level in 2021 by the Government Commercial Function.