MSc. RM  Midwife

Claudette is the LMNS (Local Maternity & Neonatal Systems) Midwife for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust focused on quality and continuous improvement of services within the local system. This role sits within the ICB and provides opportunity to advance work at Trust-level on reducing health inequalities, supporting maternity governance compliance/ assurance and co-production with stakeholders and service-users alike on topics such as developing parent education, translations and interpreters projects and implementing change from patient safety incidents or MNVP (Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership) feedback.

Claudette is a hands-on project manager and has undertaken the Women’s Leadership Development Programme from Saïd Business School at Oxford University. This course has deepened her appreciation of systems-thinking and self-awareness as a compassionate leader. Additionally, as a Black mother-of-two accessing the maternity services both, pre- and post COVID-19 pandemic, this lived experience leaves her uniquely positioned as a change driver for transformation. With the burgeoning growth of digital technologies combined with Claudette’s clinical experience as a senior midwife and passion for equity, diversity and inclusion, membership in the South Region NHS England Expert Reference Group could not come at a better time.

Claudette has previously held a Co-Chair position for EMCA (Ethnic Minority Colleagues Alliance) where she championed the voice of the workforce in a previous ICB role.

Her midwifery career to date has seen her volunteer at  Birth Centre in Texas, USA on the border of Mexico where 90% of the service users were vulnerable and undocumented migrants with no health insurance, she has supported maternity units in her home country of Cameroon in collaboration with the White Ribbon Alliance and spent many years as a community midwife with a deep love of continuity, homebirths and supporting those who choose the path less trodden. She still facilitates antenatal classes to this day to remain in touch with midwifery and encourage those who access our services to navigate them with confidence.

Email: claudette.collinsachu@nhs.net