Leading maternity services during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gill Walton is Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), one of the world’s oldest and largest midwifery organisations, representing the majority of the UK’s midwives. Gill is a passionate midwife, experienced midwifery leader and NHS manager. She started nursing at University College Hospital, and then undertook Midwifery training at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton. She has held Director of Midwifery posts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Barking, Havering and Redbridge, John Radcliffe in Oxford and more recently at Portsmouth Hospitals.

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Professor Eugene Oteng-Ntim is a consultant Obstetrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London.  He trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School now part of King’s College Medical School. Among many prestigious teaching hospitals he has worked in including Chelsea and Westminster and Queen Charlotte, he was finally appointed as a Consultant Obstetrician in 2004. He has been awarded numerous grants and published over 70 peer review papers including in Lancet and BMJ and also holds honorary position at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine linked to department of Population Health. He has strong interest in addressing inequality in Health as well as in Academia.

Anita Banerjee is an Obstetric Physician and Acute Physician at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital. Anita trained as an endocrinologist and diabetologist and obstetric physician. Her main interests are in maternal health and medical education. She is a committee member for UKOSS, maternal critical care subgroup and a MBRRACE chapter writer and assessor. She is a member of the London Maternity Clinical Leadership Group and Clinical network member for Maternal Mortality and Morbidity. She is a national and international leader in interdisciplinary maternal medicine education and simulation. She has lead on developing the enhanced medical problems in pregnancy section of the new mMOET course for 2021

Agnes Agyepong is a Chair of St Thomas Hospitals Maternity Voices Partnership Committee. As a mother of three herself, she is driven by a strong desire to improve the lives and wellbeing of children, pregnant women and new mums. With a Masters degree in International Relations from Queen Mary's University London, she is passionate about developing better intercultural awareness and communication within maternity care. Agnes is also a school Governor, with a particular focus on early years education and development, and the founder of the GLOMAMA Awards, a prestigious annual awards that helps to improve maternal mental health and highlights and celebrates the achievements of mums on social media.