Biography: Mark is a Mental Health Nurse with a First Class BSc specialising in substance misuse, with NMC recognised Specialist Practitioner status in Mental Health. He has twenty-seven years nursing experience excelling in a variety of specialist areas. He has expertise in innovation, leadership, training and service development. He strongly believes that working with and influencing policy makers and commissioners not only leads to income generation to build services, but the ultimate aim of ensuring improved patient care. He shares his expertise across disciplines and heavily involve those with lived experiences in services that he works in. This ethos is supported by publications (that have been cited in the Lancet and by NICE and Public Health England (PHE)), conference presentations, attendance at judging and expert panels (including WHO, PHE).

Mark leads the Centre of Education at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham.  The mission of the Institute is to advance mental healthcare through excellence in research and education.