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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.
Driving Better Value in Northern Ireland
A clinically-led procurement transformation in Northern Ireland unlocks savings and smarter decision-making.
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 Marc Naughton, our Clinical Lead – Modernisation Programme.
Marc has recently taken up a new role within the NHS Supply Chain Modernisation Programme. As an experienced clinician with extensive procurement and logistics expertise, he is excited to ensure that clinical and patient considerations remain central to all aspects of programme design and delivery.
A Paramedic by profession, Marc began his career in procurement at Tesco, working in stock control and warehouse teams. He then joined CHEP, the company behind the global blue pallet network, where he further developed his understanding of distribution systems and processes before joining the NHS in 2002.
During his 15 years at North West Ambulance Service, Marc maintained a strong connection to procurement, supporting improvements to local stores processes, standardising equipment, and contributing to the evaluation and implementation of new products.
See our Useful Links section to find out more about Marc’s career path to becoming a Clinical Lead – Modernisation Programme.
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