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Nurses Leading Sustainable Procurement
Michelle Johnson shared how nurses and midwives are uniquely positioned to lead the NHS’s sustainability journey through smarter procurement.
Honoured To Become a Queens Nurse: Simon Hall Champions Holistic Care in the Community
In recognition of the dedicated work, Simon Hall, our Head of Clinical Rehabilitation and Community has done in community nursing, he was recently awarded the title of Queens Nurse.
Celebrating Allied Health Professions Day – 14 October 2025
Colleagues in the field reflect on their careers within the Allied Health Professionals community.
A Shared Responsibility
This video is a celebration of how future leaders are embracing our shared responsibility to deliver safe patient care for the NHS, patients and caregivers.
Clinical Community Spotlight
Every month we’re sharing an insight into the vast range of clinical and non-clinical expertise which makes up our Clinical Community.
This month we’re featuring Paula McNamara- Jones our Clinical Pathway Manager.
Paula McNamara-Jones works within the Care Pathway Team as a Clinical Pathway Manager here at NHS Supply Chain. She brings a unique perspective as a dual-trained nurse in both Mental Health and Adult Nursing.
Paula has extensive experience in community and unscheduled care settings – a role she held for 22 years – alongside commercial roles with healthcare suppliers.
She has also worked as a Pharmaceutical Representative and as a Clinical Nurse Advisor within the commercial sector across a broad range of disease areas, from coronary heart disease to depression.
This combination of clinical and commercial insight enables her to support the development of care pathways that are patient focused and aligned with value-based healthcare principles. Paula chose to complete her Mental Health Nursing training so she could care for patients as a whole.
See our Useful Links section to find out more about Paula’s career path to becoming a Clinical Pathway Manager.
Collaborative Expertise: Clinical Community across four directorates
NHS Supply Chain is supported by a specialist leadership group known as the Clinical Community. This diverse group brings together healthcare professionals with a wide range of qualifications – such as nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals including physiotherapists, operating department practitioners, and paramedics. They work in close collaboration with colleagues who contribute extensive experience from the NHS, industry, specialist healthcare products, and procurement.
All focused on how to support the NHS to deliver high quality clinical patient care.
The Clinical Community operates across four directorates – Clinical, Commercial, Strategy and Change, and Customer Engagement – ensuring a well-rounded, strategic approach to supporting NHS priorities.
Clinical
- Innovation
- Patient Safety
- Clinical Professional Standards
- Regulatory Compliance
- Clinical Operations and Development
Commercial
- Medical Technology
- Medical and Consumables
- Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Customer Engagement
- Voice of the Customer
- Care Pathway
- Out of Hospital Care
Strategy and Change
- Inventory Management Systems