2010 Speakers

Sarah Marsh is a Midwife and Project Manager at NHS South Central responsible for project management within the strategic Maternity and Newborn Programme. To date she has had a wide and varied career including a number of years in clinical practice in London and the South East.

Currently seconded from her substantive post as Associate Director of Nursing & Midwifery in NHS Lanarkshire, to lead on the UK wide Midwifery 2020 Programme.  A registered general nurse and midwife with 29 years of experience working in the NHS in both England and Scotland, Noreen has held a number of senior management posts.

Andrea is the Strategy Manager – Children & Maternity Services for the Care Quality Commission. Her role involves working as an integral member of the Children’s strategy team leading and coordinating work specifically relating to acute hospital children’s services, maternity and neonatal services. Andrea has also been involved in developing the tools and methodologies required for implementing the new registration and regulation process for health and adult social care.

Miranda Dodwell has a research background, with a Ph.D. in Genetics.  After becoming a mother, Miranda trained as an antenatal teacher with the National Childbirth Trust and qualified in 1999, also attaining a Diploma of Higher Education in Antenatal Teaching.

Julie, a registered Nurse and Midwife with 30 years varied experience as a midwife:  a commissioned officer in Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service (PMRAFNS), Community Midwife for the Soldiers Sailors Airman’s Families Association (SSAFA) in Germany, in the Middle East (Riyadh).

Catherine Powell joined NHS Portsmouth at the end of 2006 as Consultant Nurse Safeguarding Children and holds the designated nurse responsibility across the City.  She has a background as a general nurse, children’s nurse and health visitor and has specialised in child protection since 1994 as both a practitioner and an academic.  Before coming to Portsmouth Catherine was seconded to the Department for Education and Skills as a cross-Government Nurse Advisor for Children and Young People.  Here she promoted the importance of the roles of midwives and nurses as part of the Every Child Matters: Change for Children policies.