Our Maternity Teams
The Maternity
and Gynaecology department is made up of a number of professionals.
- More than 120 Midwives based
in the hospital and community services, including specialists in diabetes,
screening, infant feeding, smoking in pregnancy, bereavement and our own
Digital Midwife
- We also have specialist Vulnerability Midwives who provide care
in the community for women and families who need additional support
- A team of Healthcare
Assistants and Maternity Support Workers
- Specialist counselling and
bereavement services
- Breastfeeding peer
support on our wards
- Newborn hearing screening
service
- Nursery Nurses
- Our own housekeepers on our
wards
Nursing and Midwifery
- Head
of Midwifery and Nursing - Sarah Petty
- Head
of Governance for Family Health - Dotty Watkins
- Matron
for Maternity and Gynaecology Outpatient Services - Theresa Woodward
- Matron
for Maternity Acute Services - Verity Gough
- Matron
for Maternity Community Services - Elizabeth Hayter
- Matron
for Acute Gynaecology and Integrated Sexual Health Services - Karen
Charlesworth
- Lead
Midwives Labour Ward - Natalie Humphrey and Alexa Birks
- Lead
Midwife Wharncliffe - Lucy Whitehead
- Lead
Midwife for Smoking in Pregnancy – Wendy Griffith
- Lead
Midwife Gestational Diabetes – Bianca Caudwell
- Lead
Midwife for Infant Feeding – Debbie Ellis
- Lead Midwives for Antenatal
and Newborn Screening Services - Judith Gilliver and Jackie Durban
- B11
Ward Manager - Julie King
- Early
Pregnancy Assessment Unit and PAS Manager - Leanne Hanson
- Gynaecology
Outpatients Manager - Jill Green
- Lead Midwives for Community - Zoe Scott, Lyndsey Willers, Heather Liggins
- Lead Midwife for Greenoaks Antenatal Clinic - Jo Aitken
- Lead Midwife for Governance - Vicki Lee
- Fetal Surveillance Midwife – Erin Linane
- Specialist Bereavement Midwife – Shahida Mehrban
- Lead Midwife for Continuity of Carer – Trudy Hutson
We have 11 Obstetric-gynaecology consultants, all with their own
subspecialties:
Our consultants:
- Miss D Patel - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Special interest in uro-gynaecology. Clinical Effectiveness Lead
- Mr H Lotfallah - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Special interest in minimal access and advance laparoscopic surgery, cancer. Gynaecology Governance Lead
- Mr R Faraj - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Special interest in endocrine gynaecology, infertility and fibroids, EPAU Lead, College Tutor
- Mr S Poku - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Special interest in Obstetric medicine, Lead for Digital Transformation
- Mrs R Gosakan - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Divisional Director for Family Health. Special interest: Colposcopy and maternal medicine
- Miss C Richardson - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Colposcopy Lead. Special interest in colposcopy
- Miss N Bika - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Clinical lead for Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Special interest: Bio psychosocial and mental health
- Miss A Saxena - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Special interest in uro-gynaecology, Lead for Maternity Governance
- Miss R Ram - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Perinatal Lead
- Miss S Malik - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Acute Gynaecology Lead
- Miss R Prajwala - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Fetal Wellbeing Lead