Paul works as AMD for Safety and Quality at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. A surgeon by background, he has worked with many Hospitals to help improve their safety systems particularly in operating theatres and is part of the NHS England NATSSIPs working group. He has an MSc in leadership for Quality having completed the GenerationQ programme as a Health Foundation Fellow. He is leading the establishment of a Quality Academy in Plymouth, our ambition to help patients and front line staff own and improve the care we provide by developing improvement capability and capacity.