Mercy Jeyasingham has mainly worked in the voluntary health and social care sector, most recently as the CEO of the umbrella organisation for the eye health and sight loss sector.
She is a non-executive director of the medicines and devices regulator, the MHRA, and Chairs its Patient Safety and Engagement Committee. She has been a charity trustee for local, regional, and national charities. This included being Vice Chair of the Afiya Trust, a national organisation campaigning to reduce inequalities in health and social care provision.
Her government appointments included as a non-executive director of the National Institute for health and Care Excellence, NICE, for 12 years and Chair of their HR committee for 8 years. She has also worked in professional regulation, Chairing Fitness to Practice committees for the General Optical Council and established the statutory register for Social Workers.
She was Head of Care Standards for a London social services department in the early 1990s and was Head of Accreditation for the Royal College of Nursing in the 2000s. She was a carer for 30 years of a family member with multiple disabilities. Mercy is still a local volunteer in South West London where she has lived for most of her life.