Mark Clement
Responsibility:
Emergency and Critical Care in adults and childrenExperience:
30 YearsPersonal Experience
Mark has over 30 years of experience in the health sector spanning most specialities but with a particular focus on Emergency and Critical Care in adults and children. Mark trained as a UK nurse and subsequently undertook a master’s programme to become one of the first advanced nurse practitioners in the UK, qualified to lead, risk assess and undertake the stabilisation and transport of critically ill and injured children.
Mark has wide-reaching strategic and management experience setting up and running health and patient transport systems. He is regularly consulted internationally for advice on monitoring and delivery of medical transport systems for adults and children. He is currently the Operational Lead for an award-winning Paediatric Transport Service at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital, which has provided the blueprint for other UK and international transport services.
Mark has been hand-picked and deployed by the UK Government to disease outbreak regions serving adults and children worldwide as a humanitarian medical lead and experienced clinician. He has proven experience developing programmes in overwhelmed and resource-poor healthcare systems in several African and South African countries.
Mark has extensive transport and repatriation experience, having undertaken more than 1000 ground transfers and over 70 air transfers internationally, and utilising most airframes including rotary wing, turboprop, Lear and Challenger Jets, and commercial aircraft. He is exceptionally skilled in assessing the client’s needs. He can build a bespoke end-to-end medical plan of care, ensuring the appropriate level of support, from a medical escort role to providing the highest hospital-level critical care management for any transfer duration.