Dr Alison Wright is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London and the President of the RCOG.  

Previously, as Vice-President of the RCOG, she helped to develop the RCOG’s ‘green top’ guidelines. She also set up and led the RCOG’s ‘Supporting our Doctors’ programme and was the clinical representative on the RCOG’s Womens’ Network.  

Dr Wright was subsequently a National Specialty Adviser (NSA) in Obstetrics, for NHS England, where she led on personalised care and informed choice, working with Nadine Montgomery and others to improve consent in maternity care.  

She then took over from Baroness Cumberlege, to chair NHSE’s maternity and neonatal ‘Stakeholder Council’, bringing together representatives from pregnancy charities and bereaved families.   

She is currently the lead Obstetrician/Gynaecologist at the HCA Portland Hospital in London.  

Dr Wright advises WHO and FIGO on post-partum haemorrhage, and other aspects of global women’s health, and is the clinical advisor on FIGO’s Gates Foundation funded ‘LDI Reach’ project.  

She sits on the council of the General Medical Council, where she has worked on updating recommendations for decision making and consent.  

Dr Wright is committed to improving maternity services, by collaboration, supporting provision of evidence-based care, high quality training, and involving women and their families in their care at every level.