Colleague News
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 David Newton our Clinical Lead.
David Newton’s career path has been far from typical. Before moving into nursing, he worked in banking and finance and later in alcohol counselling, before finding his true fit in healthcare.
After qualifying as a nurse, David gained experience in High Dependency and Intensive Care Units before moving into Cardiothoracic care. He created an E-grade development programme to support nursing career progression and later led a service development team that introduced a rapid extubation pathway for cardiac surgery patients.
This innovation reduced waiting times and allowed up to ten patients a week to bypass the traditional ITU stay – transforming the standard care pathway and improving patient experience.
See our Useful Links section to find out more about David’s career path to becoming a Clinical Lead.
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