Paul was formerly Chief Medical Officer at Bupa with a global role ensuring quality and safety of services internationally.

He was previously Director of Commissioning Development at the Midlands and East Strategic Health Authority and Medical Advisor and primary care lead at The King’s Fund.

Paul has been Chief Executive of NHS Cambridgeshire, NHS Peterborough, Great Yarmouth PCT and Northeast Essex PCT. In 2002 he set up the Braintree Care Trust for adult social care, where he was Chief Executive

In the mid-1990s he led the Fund Holding Consortium for Braintree focusing on waiting lists, national patient access and the Modernisation Agency.