Paul Woodrow OBE

Consultant

Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

Paul Woodrow OBE has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in and around the NHS spanning over thirty years. He commenced working for the NHS when he joined the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in 1991. He initially pursued a clinical career pathway that included time spent working in frontline operations all over London, initially as an ambulance technician before achieving Registered Paramedic status.

He then went on to further qualify as a specialist flight paramedic and served on London’s Air Ambulance. Paul then transitioned from his clinical role into an operational management development pathway where he went on to successfully deliver within several senior management positions within the Trust with responsibility for operational delivery and performance. He has also undertaken numerous roles in the wider NHS system and has worked with other ambulance Trust’s both nationally and internationally advising on operational delivery, systems and processes, Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management. Paul has a significant amount of board level experience operating at an Executive Director level.

His last substantive role in the NHS was Executive Director of Operations along with the role of Accountable Emergency Officer in the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. During his tenure in that role he played a key part in visibly leading the organisations response to numerous major incidents including most recently the Grenfell Tower fire and the multiple terrorist attacks in London in 2017. He was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to leadership in the NHS.

He retired from the NHS at the end of 2019. Since leaving full time NHS employment Paul has undertaken a wide range of operational development and quality improvement assignments in support of AACE both domestically and internationally. Paul is an accomplished and highly motivated executive level health leader with an evidenced history and track record of delivery at the highest level in the pre-hospital and healthcare system environment.