Paul is an NHS executive director and an experienced non-executive director and charity trustee. As the founder of Mandatum, the health care commissioning management consultancy, Paul has advised GPs and health communities on commissioning.
Paul’s background is in healthcare commissioning and informatics and he actively collaborates with clinicians, service users and carers to re-shape and improve services. He commissioned pioneering sexual health services across London in the 1990s that helped to ensure that charities were recognised as core service providers.
Recently as Managing Director of the north west London’s commissioning unit, his work involved reconfiguring public services to be more responsive to people’s needs and improve clinical quality of care. In an advisory capacity, he has worked at a national level in shaping England’s health care commissioning.
During the 1980s Paul was a Lesbian and Gay Switchboard volunteer and became aware of the HIV and AIDS epidemic at an early stage. Later he was a clinical researcher at St Mary’s Medical School, studying the needs of people living with HIV.
For many years, Paul was chair of Foundation 66 and Rugby House, charities supporting people with alcohol and drug addictions. Paul lives in Camden, London, with his partner of 26 years, with whom he has been in a civil partnership for five years.