Paul is currently Digital Lead for Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partners and a Co-Chair of the NHSX Blueprinting Steering Committee . Until recently he was Director of IT and Information at the Digital Exemplar, Wirral University Teaching Hospital. As a Global Digital Exemplar the hospital is one that aims to be a fully digital hospital by 2020. He has more than 35 years’ experience in health informatics having worked in top roles at the National Programme for IT and North West and Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authorities. He also worked for 5 years for Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar leading their strategic Informatics programme.