Donald Peebles is NHSE National Clinical Director for Maternity since Jan 2024. He has been a Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University College London Institute for Women’s Health since 2008 and was Divisional Clinical Director for Women’s Health at UCLH from 2014 to 2020. He is subspecialty accredited in Maternal- Fetal Medicine and works mainly in the area of Fetal medicine with special interests in fetal therapy and neurodevelopment.

In 2019 he was part of a team that won a BMJ Clinical Leadership award for setting up a service to treat fetal spina bifida in utero. In 2013 he was appointed as co clinical Director for the NHS England London Maternity Strategic Clinical Network and in 2020 he was appointed as a National Specialty Advisor in Obstetrics working with a multidisciplinary national team to improve Maternity Services in England.

In particular he led an initiative to implement maternal medicine networks across England, improve culture of maternity services and provided obstetric leadership to the Maternity Safety Support Programme.