Tuesday 29 -Wednesday 30 April 2025
Sponsor/exhibit at the GS1 UK Healthcare Conference 2025
Scan4Safety adoption across the UK continues to expand and as it does, so do the opportunities for solution providers, medical device manufacturers and suppliers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers
More hospitals than ever before are looking for products, equipment and systems, that can use GS1 standards to support their Scan4Safety adoption journeys. Sponsors and exhibitors of the GS1 UK Healthcare Conference are critical to this – equipping hospitals with what’s needed to deliver safer, smarter, connected healthcare for its patients.
From inventory management systems to wristband printers, and everything in between, the GS1 UK Healthcare Conference and exhibition provides the perfect environment to explore new business opportunities.
To discuss sponsorship and exhibition options, please contact one of our business development advisors. You can also download the sales brochure to explore the available packages.
Meet and network with healthcare, regulatory and government professionals
Generate new leads and opportunities by establishing commercial relationships with those leading the adoption of Scan4Safety in their NHS organisation
Gain unique, first-hand insights from NHS end users regarding their digital and Scan4Safety priorities and showcase how your product/solution can meet their needs
Get ahead of the curve on Scan4Safety developments to drive your business development strategy
Pre, during and post event brand exposure to GS1 UK stakeholder community
Organisations attending
Who you will meet
The conference brings together senior-level healthcare decision-makers from across the UK, covering a wide range of disciplines including:
- Board level executives e.g. hospital CEOs, CFOs
- Digital transformation and IT infrastructure e.g. CIOs, CCIOs, directors of IM&T
- Patient safety and quality leads e.g. directors of quality and safety
- Clinical leadership e.g. medical directors, CNIOs
- Procurement and supply chain professionals e.g. chief procurement officers, heads of supply chain
- Pharmacy professionals e.g. chief pharmaceutical officers, hospital pharmacists
- Medical device manufacturers/suppliers e.g. heads of regulatory affairs, heads of supply chain
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers/suppliers
Reasons why your organisation should sponsor/exhibit
Electronic patient record system providers
Digitalisation has been coined as one of the government’s top priorities for the NHS. Couple this with the drive for integrated care, and the need for interoperable electronic patient record (EPR) systems has become even more important.
To enable patient information to be shared seamlessly between systems and organisations, EPRs need to be capable of capturing and sharing unique identifiers such as the NHS number, and using data standards (such as GS1 standards). This will help hospitals to capture accurate data, at the patient bedside, through point of care scanning (Scan4Safety).
End users implementing Scan4Safety, are looking for EPR systems that can support the capture and sharing of standards for record sharing and reduce the risk of transcription errors.
Inventory management system providers
To support Scan4Safety and point of care scanning, end users need to be able to access and capture accurate, unique product information. This information needs to be accessible via inventory management systems to improve stock management and enable products to be scanned to the patient for traceability purposes.
About 50% trusts in England have an IMS with 40% scanning products at the point of care. Initiatives such as the NHS Supply Chain inventory management and point of care scanning roll out aims to increase adoption to improve the traceability of products to patients.
End users require inventory management systems that can hold GS1 standards to enable point of care scanning and improve traceability and patient safety i.e. in the case of a product recall.
Asset management system providers
NHS Supply Chain are building a National Equipment Tracking and Inventory System (NETIS) to provide visibility over equipment assets.
End users will need to have systems that can capture information about assets and will seek ways to track assets to locations. Systems that can hold GS1 standards would enable hospitals to capture information about each asset and since the information is standardised, it could then be shared between systems and organisations or necessary registries or databases.
Location management system providers
GS1 standards for unique identification will be central to improve traceability and safety across the NHS estate.
End users implementing Scan4Safety, require systems and printers to enable locations identified using a unique number and mapped to site CAD drawings. This would be beneficial to futureproof the NHS estate by embedding standards to support digital infrastructure – particularly valuable as part of the New Hospital Programme.
The system infrastructure can also be used to support wider Scan4Safety uses such as asset tracking and patient flow management.
Datapools or product catalogue providers
GS1 standards play a crucial role in healthcare product catalogues and are essential for product data management providers. Hospitals rely on trusted, accurate product data that has been validated and verified. Accurate product data provides the foundation for traceability in order to support safer patient care and improved operational efficiencies.
Using standards ensures the data is standardised so it can be held and shared in relevant hospital systems. This serves to facilitate inventory management and point of care scanning in the hospitals as part of Scan4Safety initiatives, as well as helping with accurate ordering via electronic purchase to pay systems to reduce errors.
Providers of barcode printers, software, scanners, verifiers and RFID tagging
For successful implementation, end users require appropriate software, hardware and labelling/tagging products capable of supporting GS1 standards i.e. generating and printing GS1-compliant barcodes.
Whether it be for patient wristbands, location labels or RFID tags, the right data needs to be captured in the barcode. It also needs to be able scannable as well as able to extract the right information when doing so – essential for Scan4Safety.
Hospitals implementing Scan4Safety need, and seek, equipment that can support scanning at the point of care or use.
Medical device manufacturers / suppliers
Unique product identification is key to Scan4Safety. When a product barcode is scanned, hospital staff need to be able to trust that the data extracted is consistent, accurate, and complete. This is particularly important for implantable medical device information to be fed into the medical devices outcomes registry (MDOR).
End users on their Scan4Safety journeys seek products that are GS1 compliant and can be scanned, identified, tracked and traced when needed to meet their needs. This information will also be required on a national scale for relevant registries and databases i.e. for tracking adverse events and monitoring patient outcomes.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers / suppliers
Effective medicines traceability is critical to minimise prescribing or administration errors and reduce the risk of harm to patients. By using GS1 standards, pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers can ensure medicines can be traced through the supply chain, and to the patient, as part of closed-loop medicines systems.
Closed-loop medicines traceability is an important application of Scan4Safety in action. End users need pharmaceutical products that can be scanned to help improve traceability and reduce the risk of prescribing errors.
