Management

Overall strategic direction and governance for UKMidSS is provided by the UKMidSS Steering Group. Current members are:

Meena Bhatia

Consultant Obstetrician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posy Bidwell

Risk and Governance Lead Midwife, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Maryanne Bray

Lead Research Midwife, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Katie Colville

Consultant Midwife, NHS Grampian

Philippa Cox (Vice-Chair)

Consultant Midwife , Homerton University Hospital

Karen Joash

Consultant Obstetrician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Mervi Jokinen (Chair)

Practice Development Advisor, Royal College of Midwives

Marian Knight

Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health, Head of UKOSS, NPEU

Jenny Kurinczuk

Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology, Director, NPEU

Amber Marshall

Lay Member

Jackie O Neill

Lead Midwife for Community and Public Health, Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Rachel Plachcinski

Lay member, NCT

Rachel Rowe

Senior Health Services Researcher, Head of UKMidSS, NPEU

Lisa Smith

Consultant Midwife, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Southampton

Anna Temke

Lead Midwife Marton Suite, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

Kylie Watson

Consultant Midwife, St. Mary's Hospital Manchester