Meet the Maternity Team

Midwives

Our midwives provide most of the care for women during their pregnancy and birth. They work in all of our departments including:

• community
• specialist teams, e.g. diabetes
• antenatal clinic
• Sanctuary Birth Centre
• Labour Suite
• hospital wards

We also have a team of midwife sonographers working in our antenatal clinics. Their role is to perform ultrasound scans to monitor the growth of your baby during your pregnancy if needed.

Midwifery Support Workers

Our Midwifery Support Workers (MSWs) help the midwives and obstetricians in both the community and hospital, including clinics, labour suite and the wards.

Their roles include performing observations, blood tests, assisting you with feeding and bathing your baby.

Student Midwives

Our student midwives work in all of our departments. They will be supervised in their work by a qualified midwife.

 

Senior Midwives

Senior midwiveswork across all of our settings. 

Their role includes providing care during pregnancy. They also have additional responsibilities such as leading their team and coordinating the shift. Some senior midwives also have special interests or qualifications, including prescribing medication and performing ultrasounds. 

Matrons 

The role of the matron is to provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership within the department, ensuring both safe and high standards of clinical care.

The matron will provide visible and clinical presence within the clinical areas and be responsible for leading the provision of high quality care, ensuring that the needs of women and their families are placed at the centre.

Our matrons help to ensure our service meets NUH and National standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.

Obstetric Doctors

Within NUH Maternity our obstetric doctors work according to 4 levels of seniority:

• Tier 1: These doctors may be in the first two years of their training in obstetrics, foundation training, general practice (GP) training, or in a non-training post. They are supervised in the care they provide by more senior doctors.
• Tier 2: Our team of tier 2 doctors have at least 2 years experience in caring for pregnant women.
• Tier 3: These professionals have at least 5 years experience in obstetrics. They have all completed their specialist qualification in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (MRCOG)
• Consultants: Doctors who have gained their Certificate of Completion of Specialist training, are on the specialist register and who have been appointed by the trust to a consultant post.

List of Obstetric doctors:

• George Bugg (QMC) Fetal Medicine, Diabetes in Pregnancy
• Mausumi Das (City and QMC) Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. Pelvis After Pregnancy service
• Petra Deering (City) Consultant Obstetrician. Service supporting women with twin pregnancies or who have a higher chance of preterm birth
• Andree Ellis (City) Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. Deputy Head of Service
• Ghada El-Senoun (City and QMC) Consultant Obstetrician. Diabetes in Pregnancy, Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
• Amanda Green (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician Supporting women with twin pregnancies or who have a higher chance of preterm birth
• Clare Gribbin (QMC) Consultant Obstetrican, Maternal Medicine, Psychosexual Medicine
• Nia Jones (QMC and City) Associate Professor and Consultant Obstetrician. Fetal Medicine, Diabetes in Pregnancy
• Anita Juliana (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
• Dipa Kapoor (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal Medicine, Diabetes in Pregnancy and Perinatal Mental Health
• Lucy Kean (City and QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Head of Service, Fetal Medicine, Maternal Medicine
• Amita Mahendru (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Fetal Medicine
• Gemma Malin (City) Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal Medicine, supporting women with substance misuse
• Jane Marley (City) Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Perinatal Mental Health
• Alec McEwan (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Fetal Medicine
• Judith Moore (City and QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal Medicine, supporting women with recurrent miscarriage
• Jane Rutherford (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal Medicine
• Tyira Siddiq (City and QMC) Consultant Obstetrician, lead for ABC
• Andrew Simm (City) Consultant Obstetrician, Diabetes in Pregnancy and fetal growth assessment
• Judith Ten-Hof (QMC) Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
• Jim Thornton (City and QMC) Professor, Consultant Obstetrician
• Suzanne Wallace (City) Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal Medicine, Teenage Pregnancy
• Gemma Wright (QMC and City) Consultant Obstetrician, Teenage pregnancy, supporting women with substance misuse, Healthy lifestyle clinic

Anaesthetic Doctors

Anaesthetic Doctors are used in all stages of patient care and there is always one present on the labour wards.

They provide and will discuss options for pain relief in labour. They will also be present to provide anaethetic for any other obstetric procedure. 

Physiotherapists

Our physiotherapists offer services to support you during your pregnancy and after the birth of your baby.

Any pregnant woman can access these during pregnancy or take part in exercise classes offered by the team.

Please see the Physiotherapy page for further information.

Sonographers

Our sonographers perform the dating and anomaly scans that you are offered as part of your routine pregnancy care.

If you require additional scans during your pregnancy, these will also be performed by a sonographer, for example: 

• To check the position of the placenta
• Monitor growth in twin pregnancy
• If you have fibroids.

Neonatologists and Hearing Screeners

These staff carry out the newborn infant and paediatric examinations on our postnatal wards. 

Receptionists 

Our reception staff welcome you to our wards, clinics and labour suite.

Research staff

At NUH Maternity we have a variety of research taking place within the department, aiming to improve outcomes and experience for women and their babies.

Our research staff may approach you to discuss joining one of our clinical trials.

Domestic staff

Our domestic and housekeeping staff maintain cleanliness in our hospitals to a high standard. They also help with serving food on the wards.