Mark Songhurst

Mark has been working in the NHS for 19 years, the last three years he has worked as a Workstream Lead and currently Project Manager for the Scan4Safety at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.  Having worked for 13 years in Internal Audit he has an in depth understanding of the processes from across the hospital that go to delivering good patient care.  

Mark is also a Future-Focused Finance ValueMaker and a School of Health and Care Radicals Change Agent. He has a real passion for working with people and understanding how people collaborate across the NHS to make changes that will have a lasting impact on the service we provide to our patients. Mark was awarded the Future-Focused Finance Award by the HFMA in 2018 in recognition of his work locally, regionally and nationally to improve NHS Finance.  

His infectious willingness to accept change, to walk alongside NHS staff of all levels enabling them to engage with change and try something new is helping drive the Scan4Safety project forward at Leeds.