BIVDA’s Procurement Group is open to all members and meets 3 times a year to receive presentations and to discuss current procurement and related issues. Topics covered have included procurement practices in the NHS, e-business, the role of NHS Supply Chain and the NHS Business Services Authority, CEP, payment for pathology service and a tariff and increasing pseudo regulatory burdens on SMEs. Meetings are always lively and well attended
We also have a small Procurement Core Group to provide input to the secretariat, as well as a Payment System group that engages closely with the processes in the possible development of a tariff for pathology.
Chairman - Jeff Watson, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Government Affairs Group formerly the Voice of Industry Group
Cancer New Cancer Working Party Group
Government Affairs & Diabetes Group - Mark Samuels, Roche Diagnostics Point of Care - David Watwood, Unipath
Market Audit - John Bagshaw, bioMerieux Procurement - Jeff Watson, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Cancer - Les Farrington, The Binding Site Regulatory Affairs - Allan Swift, Gen-Probe Life Sciences Ltd