Meet Gemma

Hello! I’m Gemma, a midwife of 13 years, with a passion for improving safety in maternity services. I have worked as a clinical midwife, a specialist midwife, a maternity investigator, a lead midwife for quality and safety for a local maternity and neonatal system and an expert witness.

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Professional Experience

  • Qualified midwife since 2012

  • Extensive clinical experience across all areas of maternity care, including antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and neonatal services

  • 2013-now Rotational clinical midwife

  • 2017-2019 Held the role of Clinical Skills and Patient Safety Specialist Midwife, delivering training in core clinical procedures such as perineal suturing and neonatal resuscitation

  • 2019-2024 Maternity Investigator for Maternity & Newborn Safety Investigations (formally HSIB)

  • 2023-2025 Midwifery Expert Witness for Somek & Associates

  • 2025-now Clinical Quality and Safety Manager (Midwifery) for a Local Maternity and Neonatal System- leading on safety improvement initiatives and system-level governance.

Professional Development

  • Final year PhD student- thesis focused on family experiences of maternity safety investigations

  • Guest lecturer at Universities of Hull, York and Teesside

  • Delivers educational sessions on midwifery practice for legal professionals

  • Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors

  • Full member of the Expert Witness Institute (MEWI)

  • 2025 Cultural Curiosity Training, Baby Lifeline

  • 2023 Structured Debrief Training, UK Health and Security Agency

  • 2023 Safety investigations bronze award, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch

  • 2019 Maternity Investigator training, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch

  • 2018 Professional Midwifery Advocate, University of Hull

  • 2017 MSc in Health Studies

  • 2016 Newborn Life Support, NLS

  • 2015 CTG masterclass, Baby Lifeline

  • 2015 Examination of the Newborn, University of Hull

  • 2014 Advanced clinical practice module, University of Hull

  • 2014 Mentorship in professional practice, University of Hull

  • 2012 BSc (Hons) Midwifery (First Class), University of Hull