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Keeping Patients at the Heart of Care; How Clinical Expertise Is Making Sure Community Voices Are Heard
How NHS Supply Chain’s Ellie Addison is bringing community voices and system leadership together to improve health and care services.
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 Olivia Kennedy our Care Pathway Specialist.
Olivia began her healthcare career at 18, completing her honours degree in Adult Nursing by the time she was, 21 before moving straight into frontline practice. After building a strong foundation on an acute ward, she progressed into Critical Care, where she spent five years developing advanced skills, completing her Level 6 Critical Care Certificate in Professional Studies, and caring for highly complex patients – including throughout the COVID‑19 pandemic.
Driven by a passion for patient safety and quality improvement, Olivia joined NHS Supply Chain as a Clinical Nurse Advisor before moving into the Care Pathway Team as a Clinical Care Pathway Manager.
See our Useful Links section to find out more about Olivia’s career path to becoming a Care Pathway Specialist.
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