Dr Paula Bennett

Paula has had a long clinical career as an Emergency Nurse, leading development in Advanced Practice, Paediatric emergency care, and informatics. She completed a Doctorate at the University of Salford in 2014 after undertaking research into the effectiveness of computerised decision support. Paula joined HInM in 2016 and now leads the Utilisation Management (UM) Unit. The UM Unit provides specialised urgent and emergency care improvement support to the provider and commissioner organisations in GM and other parts of the UK. Paula’s passion is high quality urgent and emergency care and the creation of pathways to ensure equitable access to services.