Devyani Vaishampayan joins the SCCL Board as a non-executive director

NHS Supply Chain is delighted to announce Supply Chain Coordination Limited (SCCL), the management function of NHS Supply Chain, has appointed Devyani Vaishampayan as a non-executive director (NED) to join the Board with effect from 1 November 2024. She will replace outgoing NED Heather Benjamin who will complete her second term at the end of November 2024.

Ms Vaishampayan brings a wealth of HR, AI, climate/sustainability and commercial experience and expertise, along with valuable private sector NED experience to NHS Supply Chain.

Ms Vaishampayan is a highly experienced Chief HR Officer, spending the first part of her career in large corporate businesses, including global HR leadership roles in FTSE companies such as Rolls Royce and a Group HR director role for the British Standards Institute (BSI), a profit for purpose business operating in multiple countries.

She currently holds non-executive positions at Norman Broadbent Plc and the UK audit board of Forvis Mazars, while recently concluding the successful exit of her AI venture. She is a Fellow at Chapter Zero, a not-for-profit organisation helping non-executive directors around climate issues and a board mentor with Criticaleye where she mentors CEOs and senior executives.

Our people are our greatest asset and supporting them to be the best they can be, thriving in a positive, values led culture will be key to our future in supporting the NHS.

I’m really looking forward to Devyani’s extensive people and organisational development experience bringing real value to supporting the implementation of our ambitious strategy as we continue to grow.

I would also like to personally thank non-executive director Heather Benjamin for her valued contribution over the last six years. I wish her well in her new ventures.

Heather Tierney-Moore OBE, SCCL’s chair

I’m delighted to be joining the SCCL board. In addition to my international experience working with a diverse range of businesses, I’m really interested in the power of AI/data and driving climate sustainability around supply chains. I hope to bring new insight from my broad experience of innovation around digitisation of the workplace and working on the climate agenda at Chapter Zero.

Devyani Vaishampayan, SCCL’s new non-executive director

Ms Vaishampayan joins existing NEDs on the SCCL board Rommel Pereira, Mark Swyny, Duncan Kendal and Sheila Doyle.

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About NHS Supply Chain

NHS Supply Chain is part of the NHS family and manage the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We manage more than 8 million orders per year across more than 129,000 order points and over 17,000 locations. We deliver over 35 million lines of picked goods to the NHS annually and our systems consolidate orders from over 1100 suppliers. This enables us to bring value to our NHS partners, helping them save time and money in removing duplication of overlapping contracts.

NHS Supply Chain aims to leverage the collective buying power of the NHS to drive savings and provide a standardised range of clinically assured, quality products at the best value.

NHS Supply Chain is committed to enabling the NHS to deliver safe and excellent patient care.

Supply Chain Coordination Ltd (SCCL) is the company at the heart of NHS Supply Chain. It provides oversight and operational management for NHS Supply Chain and its service providers. 

SCCL is the legal entity through which NHS Supply Chain undertakes its procurement services and transacts with customers and suppliers.

Whilst its shares are owned by NHS England, SCCL is a separate organisation.