Mark Songhurst💙

Project Manager for Scan4Safety at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Future Focused Finance Value Maker. Views and Opinions are my own

[Mark Songhurst💙 @mtsonghurst]

Today I had the honour of speaking at the 12th World Clinical Safety Congress.

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Valuemaker journey started…

[GS1 UK Healthcare @gs1uk_hc]

How can #GS1standards be used to better manage patient flow?

Scan4Safety programme manager at
@LeedsHospitals, @mtsonghurst, explains how the trust is implementing Live Bed State and explores the benefits for staff and patients.

@scan4safety @LTHScan4Safety @QualityForum

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Our partner @gs1uk_hc and #Scan4Safety champions at @LeedsHospitals @mtsonghurst were presenting the benefits of barcode scanning at point of care, during @QualityForum 2024

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@WYMayor please can I ask why it acceptable for people living 4 miles from the centre of Leeds to have to wait 30 minutes for a bus at 17:30 or walk 20 minutes because the trains are unreliable too.
How do we have a conversation, urgently. One distressed and upset widower.

[Mark Songhurst💙 @mtsonghurst]

@LNER amazing service from a gentleman called Shaun on the information desk at Leeds. Kind, helpful and informative.

[Joe Tracini @joetracini]

I’ve spent the past month playing The Good Fairy.
I always said the same thing at the end of the show.
This is me saying it for the last time.
A moment I won’t forget in a rush xx

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@nationaltrust thank you to the staff at Bembridge Windmill. What an excellent visit and such wonderful volunteers. Bringing history to life by knowledge.

[Mark Songhurst💙 @mtsonghurst]

My amazing nephew is rowing a half marathon in a pair on a rowing machine to raise money for Leeds Rowing Club. If anyone can spare anything it would be greatly appreciated.

https://t.co/OgGQhskyTl

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A new day and a new presentation talking to @gs1uk about the impact of #Scan4Safety and GS1 Standards

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Looking forward to speaking to @gs1es tomorrow and sharing the work we have been doing with @gs1uk_hc to improve processes at Leeds.

[GS1 Healthcare @GS1Healthcare]

💬 'We are responsible for every single patient in this globe to make sure their healthcare is the best it can be, the safest it can be, and the most effective'.

🎬@mtsonghurst receiving his 'Best Healthcare Provider Individual Award' at the GS1 Healthcare Conference in Paris ⤵️

[GS1 UK Healthcare @gs1uk_hc]

Congratulations @mtsonghurst for receiving the @GS1Healthcare Provider Individual Leadership Award at the #GS1HealthcareConference2022 👏

A true champion of #GS1standards implementation & #Scan4Safety, not just in the UK but globally.

@LTHScan4Safety @LeedsHospitals

[Mark Songhurst💙 @mtsonghurst]

Thank you all for the kind comments and to GS1 for the award. I am very humbled by it, it is part of a journey to constantly providing better healthcare for patients across the globe.

[GS1 UK Healthcare @gs1uk_hc]

Congratulations @mtsonghurst for receiving the @GS1Healthcare Provider Individual Leadership Award at the #GS1HealthcareConference2022 👏

A true champion of #GS1standards implementation & #Scan4Safety, not just in the UK but globally.

@LTHScan4Safety @LeedsHospitals

[Mark Songhurst💙 @mtsonghurst]

Everyday we have a new experience. Today it is flying to a conference. Thanks to a rail strike flying was the best option to get to London.

[GS1 UK Healthcare @gs1uk_hc]

Looking forward to @mtsonghurst's session at @Convenzis_Group's #NHS Estates conference tomorrow at 12:50pm.

Mark will be discussing the importance of accurate location identification using #GS1 #GLNs, & exploring the benefits to #patientsafety.
https://t.co/JQZ3ztGWOi

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@LBIAirport when your teams are struggling today remind them that one fast track passenger was impressed and grateful. 25 minutes from joining the right queue to being airside. All staff were working hard and still so polite. Please say thank you to them.

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Steve Bush from @LeedsHospitals asks what advice he’d give to a trust embarking on #Scan4Safety. “Have a really hard look about what’s achievable, at what’s your real focus, at what can be done with the time and resources available.” #BetterCareCostsLess

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The focus of the trust’s Scan4Safety programme is therefore focusing on these three areas, “because the general public would think we were doing them already”. #BetterCareCostsLess

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Steve Bush of @LeedsHospitals says members of the public would understandably think the NHS would know where are its patients are, where its equipment is, and know which equipment has been used for which patient. 1/2 #BetterCareCostsLess