Logistics & Materials Management

Purpose and Role of Group

The primary role of the group is to develop a community where logistics and supply chain professionals can connect peer to peer and to develop a network that can support the NHS deliver upon its wider objectives.

Specifically, the group will support with:

• Sharing industry and NHS best practice.
• Creating networking opportunities for logistics and supply chain professionals.
• Identifying opportunities for collaboration (such as standardised operating procedures) and working with partners to deliver benefit to the community.
• Encouraging staff to gain technical, professional, and other skills necessary to perform their roles safely and to the highest standards.
• Encouraging and support staff to develop their own level of competence to maintain continuous development, increase job satisfaction, and achieve their personal and professional potential.

Group Membership

• Group Chair: Paul Pilgrem
• Deputy Chair: Rebecca Bines
• Senior PMO Lead: Heather Appleby
• HCSA Exec Sponsor: Keith Rowley
•  CCF: Barbara Begg NHSE

Stakeholder Membership

• Open to all within the NHS and affiliated organisations with Logistics and Supply Chain responsibilities.

HCSA Annual Conference 2025

At the 2025 Annual Conference, the L&MM Network ran a series of breakout sessions to introduce the network and highlight the work being done within the sector.  The following sessions were held throughout Day 1 - links below to the presentations:

• L&MM Network - An Introduction
• Mounjaro for Matman
• The Secrets of a Good Inventory Management System
• Out in the Community, not out in the Cold

Podcasts 

UHB Director of Warehousing & Logistics Dave Lightening discusses starting out as a bricklayer, working in retail, the HCSA Logistics Network and loving a bit of The Jam!

L&MM Case Study Template