Dr Paul Edmondson-Jones MBE graduated in medicine in 1980 at University of Dundee. Paul was an Army Medical Cadet while at University and remained in the Army for a further 20 years after graduation, serving in many parts of the world. He was a Regimental Medical Officer with the Gurkha Rifles in the Falklands War in 1982, commanded the British Medical Battalion with the United Nations Force in former Yugoslavia in 1992/3, led a hospital task force to Nepal after the earthquake in 1986 and was honoured to be made an MBE for his role in the Gulf War of 1990-91.

In 2000, Paul left the military and moved to Portsmouth & SE Hampshire Health Authority as a Public Health Consultant and then to Portsmouth City Teaching PCT as Director of Public Health in 2001. When Public Health moved from the NHS back into Local Government in 2013, Paul moved to York where he became the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Adult Social Care as well as Director of Public Health. In 2018, after a short period in Teesside as DPH in Redcar& Cleveland and Hartlepool, Paul moved to Stoke-on-Trent as Director of Public Health and Director of Adult Social Care. In May 2022, Paul moved to his current role as Chief Medical Officer for the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.