Multi-Professional Advisory Panel (MPAP)

Baby Lifeline’s Multi-Professional Advisory Panel (MPAP) is made up of dynamic, dedicated professionals who work in healthcare, patient safety, and law. Health professionals on the Panel look after mothers and babies from pre-conception, to birth, and afterwards. Our legal members specialise in clinical negligence, both acting for families and for the NHS. Each member of the Panel is an expert in important aspects of care.

The Panel steers the work of the charity to ensure it is impactful and makes a difference.

Areas of Expertise

Obstetrics
Midwifery
Neonatology
Clinical negligence
Maternal mental health
Reducing inequalities in maternity
Anaesthetics
Education in healthcare
Paramedics
General Practice

Multi-Professional Advisory Panel

Mr Edward Morris

Mr Edward Morris CBE (Chair)

Regional Medical Director & Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS England – East of England Region

Mr Michael Magro

Mr Michael Magro (Vice Chair)

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Anita Banerjee

Obstetric Physician, General Medicine Physician and Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant

Mr Charles Cox OBE

Mr Charles Cox OBE

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton

Dr Chris Dewhurst

Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Ms Gill Edwards

Ms Gill Edwards

Partner, Potter Rees Dolan

Dr Elizabeth Egbase

Dr Elizabeth Egbase

Locum Consultant Obstetrician, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Christine Ekechi

Dr Christine Ekechi

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Imperial College Health NHS Trust

Clara Haken

Clara Haken

Consultant Midwife, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation

Mr Majid Hassan

Mr Majid Hassan

Partner in Clinical Law, Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Mr Kim Hinshaw

Mr Kim Hinshaw

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Director of Research & Innovation City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Minesh Khashu

Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Perinatal Health

Barbara Kuypers

Clinical Fellow and Maternity Improvement Advisor with NHS England & NHS Improvement.

Nicky Lyon

Nicky Lyon

Co-Founder, Campaign for Safer Births, and Co-Chair of Baby Lifeline's Family Voices Group

Ms Bernadette McGhie

Ms Bernadette McGhie

Consultant Solicitor and Head of Brain Injury Team, Russell Cooke

Lydia Emerson

Lydia Miller

Paramedic and Practice Development Co-Ordinator, London Ambulance Service

Dr Felicity Plaat

Dr Felicity Plaat

Consultant Anaesthetist, Queen Charlotte’s & Hammersmith Hospitals. Council member, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Dr Paarul Prinja

Consultant Acute and Obstetric Physician, New Cross Hospital, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Nick Tait

Part-time Principal GP, Croft Medical Centre GP Registrar Trainer

Emeritus Professor James Walker

Emeritus Professor James Walker

President of Baby Lifeline Training

Sascha Wells-Munro, OBE

Sascha Wells-Munro OBE

Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer for England: Maternity Safety and Quality Improvement.

Join our Multi-Professional Advisory Panel

Interested in shaping the work we do, and being part of our mission to make every birth safer and better?

We are always looking for active and committed members of the maternity world to join us on our Multi-Professional Advisory Panel. We are particularly interested in the following professional groups at this time (of any grades): 

  • Midwives 
  • Anaesthetists 
  • General Practitioners 

If you are interested, please do get in touch using the contact form.

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