• Kings College London
• Emeritus Professor (Honorary) of Obstetrics and Women's Health

Declaration on 19 March 2024

Declaration period: 2024

Main employment

• Type: Academic
• Details: Chair of guideline development group / NICE

Consultancy

• Income band: £100 to under £1,000
• Details: Consultancy fee regarding advice in Indian medicolegal case donated to charity

Academic

• Relates to: Other
• Income band: under £100
• Details: Occasional lectures at King's College London

Other work

• Relates to: Media
• Income band: £100 to under £1,000
• Details: Interview fee for performance art theatre show First Trimester donated to charity.

Sponsored / educational events

• Relates to: Conferences, Meals / hospitality / travel
• Income band: £2,000 to under £5,000
• Details: Travel, hospitality and meals to speak at SEGM conference New York October 2023. Speaker fee donated to charity.

Declaration on 29 July 2023

Declaration period: 2023

Main employment

• Type: Academic
• Details: Chair of Guideline Development Groups / NICE

Academic

• Details: Unfunded research, peer reviewing and comments

Other work

• Relates to: Commercial relationships
• Income band: £100 to under £1,000
• Details: Royalties from textbooks

Declaration on 26 January 2021

Declaration period: 2021

Consultancy

• Relates to: Other
• Income band: £2,000 to under £5,000
• Details: Chair NICE Rapid Covid Guideline Development Groups

Declaration on 26 January 2021

Declaration period: 2021

Other work

• Details: Trustee Maternity Action Chair Healthwatch-UK

Declaration on 31 March 2020

Declaration period: 2020

Nothing to declare.

Declaration on 20 July 2019

Nothing to declare.

Declaration on 6 April 2019

Other sources of income or benefits from other organisations relevant to medical practice

• Company: National Institute of Social and Healthcare Excellence · Reason for receipt of fees: Chairing Guideline Development Groups · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000
• Company: NGO Hospital India · Reason for receipt of fees: Expert Maternity Advice · Total amount received: £2,000 to under £5,000

Declaration on 24 September 2018

Other sources of income or benefits from other organisations relevant to medical practice

• Company: National Institute of Health and Social Care Excellence · Reason for receipt of fees: Chairing Guideline Development Groups · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000

Declaration on 2 April 2018

Other sources of income or benefits from other organisations relevant to medical practice

• Company: NGO Hospitals India · Reason for receipt of fees: Expert maternity advice · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000
• Company: Inside Government · Reason for receipt of fees: Chairing Forum on Maternity Services · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: NICE · Reason for receipt of fees: Chairing GDG, Standing Committee · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000
• Company: Universities (Nottingham, Newcastle) · Reason for receipt of fees: Research Advisory Committee, Trial Steering Commitee · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: Publishers (Wiley, Oxford University Press, Silverwood) · Reason for receipt of fees: Royalities · Total amount received: £1,000 to under £2,000

Fees directly received from other medical companies

• Company: Media (Channel Four, BBC) · Reason for receipt of fees: Background research, speaker fees · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: Northern Ireland Ethics Forum, Medical Defence Union, Italian College of Physicians, Danish Midwives Association · Reason for receipt of fees: Travel, hotel and subsistance expenses only (lectures with no speaker fees) · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000

Other declarations

I continue (unpaid) to produce academic papers and letters, and sometimes express opinions (where possible based on evidence) in these writings which can be found in the public domain.

Declaration on 25 August 2016

Fees directly received from other medical companies

• Company: European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology · Reason for receipt of fees: speaker fee, registration fee, travel expenses · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: BBC · Reason for receipt of fees: speaker fee (in the ethics committee) and advice · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: Liverpool medicolegal society · Reason for receipt of fees: speaker fee, travel and hotel expenses · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000

Declaration on 2 December 2015

Other sources of income or benefits from other organisations relevant to medical practice

• Company: Hospital Trust in UK and NGO Hospital India · Reason for receipt of fees: Invited RCOG review, expert maternity advice · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000
• Company: Royal Society of Medicine (retired fellows), Safer Lives (women's aid), Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, Primary Health Care Conference, · Reason for receipt of fees: Lecture fees and travel expenses · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: NIHR/ PRP/ University of Southampton · Reason for receipt of fees: Expert reviews of grants/ research reports · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: CPPE · Reason for receipt of fees: Advice and workshops regarding educational tools for NICE products · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: University College Dublin · Reason for receipt of fees: External examiner · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: Medical Defence Union/ Solicitors · Reason for receipt of fees: Member of MDU Council and Cases committee, provision of medico-legal reports · Total amount received: £10,000 to under £50,000

Fees directly received from other medical companies

• Company: Media (including BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Juniper productions) · Reason for receipt of fees: Studio fees · Total amount received: under £100

Other declarations

I express opinions (where possible based on evidence) in my academic writings, which can be found in the public domain.

Declaration on 23 January 2014

Other sources of income or benefits from other organisations relevant to medical practice

• Company: Speaker’s fees, travel expenses, to occasional conferences in UK and Europe · Reason for receipt of fees: To cover costs of preparing and travelling to give lectures. I am not always aware of the sponsorship of conferences and try to always avoid pharmaceutical funding, as I have to declare all interests · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: Medical Defence Union · Reason for receipt of fees: Member of Cases Committee and Council · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000
• Company: NHS Organisations · Reason for receipt of fees: Expert reviews of maternal mortalities, serious incidents, reviews of maternity services, support for senior staff · Total amount received: £10,000 to under £50,000
• Company: Medicolegal work (solicitors, coroners, courts) · Reason for receipt of fees: Expert medical reports · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000
• Company: National Collaborating Centre – Women’s and Children’s and the National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence · Reason for receipt of fees: Chairing Guideline Development Committees · Total amount received: £5,000 to under £10,000

Research grants paid by private institutions to your department

• Company: NIHR · Reason for receipt of fees: three grants at present relating to a device to disimpact babies at caesarean, the detection & management of breech presentation, and the efficient use of maternity staff & impact on safety & quality · Total amount received: £100,000+

Past declarations

Since leaving my NHS clinical consultant post in July 2011, I have become a self-employed obstetric academic and expert. As an academic I receive payment for research work (as a researcher-collaborator, member of advisory steering groups, chair of trial steering group, PhD supervision), teaching (lectures, running a special study module, interviewing, facilitator of BSc in Medical Law and Ethics) and examining (KCL and Dublin). I am also paid to work for NICE. I am employed to produce expert reports and medicolegal reports. I receive small fees and royalties from medical writing (<£500 per annum).

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