Mary Elford

Mary has been chair of Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since April 2025. The Trust delivers acute and community services to the people of City & Hackney and North East London. 

Prior to this, Mary was chair of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, vice chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust, and served as a non-executive director for Barts and The London NHS Trust as well as Health Education England. She has also been a council member at Queen Mary University of London, a member of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel for the NHS, and a council member of the General Pharmaceutical Council. 

Mary’s commercial career was with the John Lewis Partnership, where she held a range of senior executive positions.