The new Associate Director for Maternity Services at the Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust brings more than 30 years of nursing experience to her new role – a role where she will have responsibility for a service that delivers approximately 4,000 babies a year.

Said Eileen: “I am thrilled to have joined the Trust as Associate Director for Maternity Services and I very much look forward to working with the maternity team, and the rest of the Trust. This role is pivotal in increasing the profile of the maternity services both within the Trust and in the wider health economy. I will be working closely with the maternity team to develop plans to expand and improve the service in the light of the recommendations from “Fit for the Future. 

“I am joining an excellent midwifery team which has clearly been working extremely hard under pressure to deliver high standards of care. The increasing birth rate at St Peter’s is testimony to the hard work of the team.” 

Eileen trained as a nurse with the QARANC qualifying in 1977 and then trained as a midwife in 1979 since when she has worked full time in acute maternity services. Eileen joins us from Worthing with eight years experience as a Head of Midwifery combined with three years experience as a General Manager for Women & Children Services. General management however, was pulling her away from the area she loves best and working at Ashford & St Peter’s NHS Trust gives her the opportunity to concentrate on maternity services.

Eileen lives in Horsham with her police officer husband and spends her spare time travelling.

Footnote: 

March looks set to be a busy month for midwives – 383 babies are due, approximately 50 more than an average month. There is no scientific basis for the theory that this could be due to England doing so badly in the World Cup last summer!