Mark Songhurst

Mark Songhurst has worked in England’s NHS for more than 20 years. For the past five years, he has been a workstream leader and is currently Programme Lead for Scan4Safety at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Having worked for 13 years in the internal audit organisation, he has an in-depth understanding of the processes across the hospital that help to deliver good patient care. 

Mark Songhurst is also a Future-Focused Finance Value Maker and a School of Health and Care Radicals Change Agent. He is extremely passionate when it comes to working with people and understanding how they can collaborate across the NHS to make lasting changes on services provided to patients. He was awarded the Future-Focused Finance Award by the Healthcare Financial Management Association in 2018, in recognition of his work at local, regional and national levels to improve NHS Finance. 

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