From July 2024 Paul has been a strategic adviser to Wes Streeting the SoS for health and social care
Between 1966 and 1972 Paul studied
• for his first degree in social policy at the London School of Economics where he was taught how to make social policy work by some of the people who had made post war policy
• for his PhD on juvenile delinquency and schooling at Durham University
Between 1972 and 1984 he taught social policy at the University of Warwick and the Polytechnic of North London to undergraduates, social workers, and community nurses. His research was on community development and social policy in inner city areas.
He then worked as a senior manager in London local government at the GLC, ILEA and the London Borough of Islington, In the midst of that 1990-93 he was the education policy officer for the Labour Party.
In the late 90s he was a management consultant before, in 2001 becoming special adviser on health policy to Alan Milburn. John Reid and Tony Blair
Between 2007 and 2009 he was the Director of Strategy and Commissioning for NHS London.
Since then he has been working for himself and in particular was a non exec at the CQC 2013-9 and helped to develop the NHS New model of care 2014-7
He is married to the Labour Peer Baroness Armstrong.