Paul Smeeton

Paul Smeeton
Director of Business Development and Marketing
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Paul Smeeton has been Director of Business Development and Marketing with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust since 1st May 2008.

He leads the Trust’s Business development and marketing unit and is responsible for overall business planning and strategy, business development and marketing, innovation initiatives, and developing the capability of the Trust to respond to market opportunities and partnership initiatives.

He is also the Foundation Trust equivalent Project Director, involved in developing the new organisational freedoms and responsibilities for Nottinghamshire Healthcare (one of the three Trusts with High secure Hospitals) for which NHS Foundation Trust status is not appropriate.  

He first joined the NHS in 1986 as a General Management Trainee working in Preston and has held various roles in the NHS ever since, mainly in informatics which has provided a strong interest in using information analysis to maximize business development opportunities.    

Paul's hobbies include his family, politics, history, walking, and being a long suffering supporter of Newcastle United.