Eileen Dudley is a senior Programme Lead who leads on the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeo SIP) working with organisations across the region to improve outcomes for women and babies. Eileen has an MSc in Senior Healthcare Leadership with the NHS Leadership Academy and continues to practice clinically as a midwife. She is the project lead for the award-winning Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation (IIA) in labour programme.
Contact: Eileen.dudley@healthinnovationoxford.org
Tara Gradwell is a Programme Support Officer providing programme support to the Maternity and Neonatal Patient Safety Collaborative. She has worked in the NHS for 12 years, providing administrative support to maternity and clinical governance teams.
Contact: tara.gradwell@healthinnovationoxford.org
Ania Scigala-Ali joined the Patient Safety team in October 2024 as the Project Lead for Perinatal Culture & Leadership Programme. She has a background in clinical and organisational psychology, research and quality improvement. She is an International Coaching Federation-accredited coach and project manager. Ania has held various front-facing and leadership roles within the NHS and third sector. She is particularly interested in Culture and behaviour.
Contact: ania.scigala-ali@healthinnovationoxford.org
Katherine Edwards leads on Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement, running a large number of quality improvement projects across the region, and contributing to national patient safety programmes. Katherine has over 20 years’ experience working in the NHS and healthcare, starting her career in midwifery and progressing through clinical management of wards and departments. She moved into clinical research at the University of Oxford and onto quality improvement and patient safety, joining the Oxford AHSN (now Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley) in 2014. Throughout her career Katherine has been dedicated to improving healthcare through supporting healthcare staff, enabling systems to work efficiently and developing collaboration.
Lawrence Impey is a Consultant in Obstetrics and the Lead for Fetal Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Clinical Lead for the Maternity & Neonatal Network. He is interested in patient safety in maternity care, primarily through the development of safe and equitable systems. He has published widely on breech birth, fetal growth and the role of labour in determining neonatal outcomes and is the author of the leading undergraduate textbook in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Anda Bowring is an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practioner (ANNP). She is the Neonatal Clinical Audit Lead at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. She is the MatNeo SIP Neonatal Clinical Improvement Lead for the MatNeo network.