Mark Kitchingham

Senior Lecturer Mental Health Nursing

Mark joined the University of Greenwich in February 2026 as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing. He is a registered mental health nurse with over 23 years of experience of working in the NHS, predominantly in community mental health teams for older adults with both functional and organic conditions. Prior to this he worked with working age adults in acute mental health inpatient wards and a crisis team.

He is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Non-Medical Prescriber and has worked in senior clinical roles in the NHS, most recently as a Nurse Consultant within a memory assessment service responsible for assessing, diagnosing and treating dementia. Mark has also managed teams operationally and has experience of leading complex change, service development and transformation across traditional service boundaries to improve quality of care.

Mark has previous experience as a lecturer supporting simulation and both undergraduate mental health nursing and postgraduate Advanced Clinical Practice programmes. His specialist area of interest is dementia care and the pathophysiology of mental health and neurodegenerative conditions.

Posts held previously:

  • Clinical Lead Dementia Transformation, Nurse Consultant Memory Assessment Service and Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, 2024-2026
  • Lecturer Canterbury Christchurch University (Secondment), 2023-2025
  • Advanced Clinical Practitioner Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, 2022-2024
  • Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, 2020-2022
  • Team Leader Older Adults Community Mental Health Teams, 2014-2020
  • Community Mental Health Nurse Older Adults, 2007-2014

Health and social care

Responsibilities within the university
  • Senior Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing, School of Health Sciences
  • Academic Tutor
  • Academic Assessor
  • Link Lecturer

Research / Scholarly interests

Current research interests include the Advanced Clinical Practitioners role in memory services, using the DiADeM tool to support systems to diagnose advanced dementia in care homes and improving equity of access to memory assessment services.

Recent publications

Rodda, J. & Kitchingham, M. (2025) ‘Tackling inequities requires new tools to make assessment faster’. Nursing Times. Available at: https://www.nursingtimes.net/dementia/tackling-inequities-requires-new-tools-to-make-assessment-faster-10-12-2025/

Delrée, J., Kitchingham, M., Hawes, M., Rickett, A., Hill, B. & Phipps, O. (2024) Chapter 18 Mental Health and Learning Disabilities in Phipps, O., Setchfield, I., Hill, B., Diamond-Fox, S. ed. in The Advanced Practitioner in Pathophysiology and Diagnostics (Advanced Clinical Practice) (2024). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. p290-308.

Kitchingham, M. & Tan, K. (2023) “Making a diagnosis of dementia using DiADeM (Diagnosing Advanced Dementia Mandate) in Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley”. Journal of Dementia Care. November/December 2023. 31(6). pp27-28.