Gayle Dellow is a compassionate healthcare leader blending clinical expertise with digital innovation. As Lead Digital Midwife at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, she drives initiatives to digitize maternity services and reduce inequalities. With over 20 years’ experience in IT and midwifery, Gayle holds a PG Cert in Digital Health Leadership, an MSc in IT Service Management, and a First-Class BSc in Midwifery. She chairs the East of England Maternity and Neonatal Digital Network and was selected for the NHSE/ARU Health Innovation Placement. A mother of five and advocate for inclusion, her lived experience fuels her passion for equitable, human-centred care.

Maggie Reid is a registered midwife and Clinical Director at System C Healthcare, leading digital transformation in maternity and neonatal care across the UK and New Zealand. She began as a rotational midwife before becoming the Digital Midwife at NHS Borders, delivering the BadgerNet maternity record. Progressing through industry roles, she has led large-scale EPR deployments, championed clinical safety, and built bridges between NHS teams and technology suppliers. Despite national and global leadership roles, her heart lies in being a digital midwife—driving change, amplifying the profession’s voice, and ensuring technology delivers safer, more equitable maternity care. She joined the RCM Digital Midwives Network to collaborate, influence, and shape the future.

Hassin Rasool is a dedicated Digital Midwife with a profound passion for midwifery and the integration of technology in healthcare.

Over the past 12 years, he has dedicated five of those as a Digital Midwife at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. In this role, he has taken the lead on various projects aimed at enhancing maternity services, implementing an end-to-end electronic health record, and collaborating with local services to align and improve care within maternity.

Hassin's passion for combining healthcare with digital innovation continues to drive him to foster better outcomes for families, exemplifying his unwavering commitment to midwifery and the evolution of digital services within maternity.

Awo is a passionate Digital Midwife who champions innovation, person-centred care, and the use of technology to improve maternity services. With over a decade of midwifery experience, she brings a deep understanding of frontline practice and how digital tools can support safer, more personalised care. Committed to reducing inequalities in access to care, she has led work to enhance digital inclusion, ensuring maternity information is accessible and responsive to the needs of all families. As a member of the RCM Digital Midwives Forum, Awo is eager to influence positive change, promote digital equity and support innovation in maternity services.

Lyndsey has been a qualified midwife for 13 years. Before training, Lyndsey wanted to be a community midwife and achieved this dream in 2015. After 9 years working in this role, Lyndsey took on a new challenge as Digital Midwife at Royal Cornwall Hospital in 2024. Being new to the role, Lyndsey was keen to join the RCM Digital Network to learn from others and to help shape the future of the digital maternity world we are currently in and how it can improve for both patients and professionals going forward.

Lisa is an experienced Digital Midwife with over 5 years’ experience.

She has successfully led the implementation of Badgernet, an advanced digital maternity record system, across the Trust. With a strong focus on clinical safety, digital transformation, and patient-centred care, Lisa plays a key role in enhancing maternity services through technology.

Her work bridges clinical expertise and digital innovation, ensuring that digital systems are safe, efficient, and aligned with frontline needs. Lisa is actively involved in training and supporting staff through the digital transition, fostering a culture of confidence and collaboration in the use of electronic records.

Lisa is committed to supporting other digital leaders in maternity and wider healthcare settings. She actively shares her experience of lessons learned, and best practices to help others navigate their own digital transformation journeys with confidence and clarity.

An experienced midwife with over seven years experience in the field, providing care across a range of settings including high-risk labour care, and more recently, community midwifery and now as a digital midwife. Passionate about improving maternity care through innovation, she has long supported the move to digitalisation.  Her enthusiasm for moving to an electronic patient record alongside a strong commitment to support colleagues through what can be a challenging.  Continuing to advocate for compassionate, modern midwifery that benefits both patients and professionals, which is why the RCM Digital Midwives forum will be such an asset to be part of.

Lisa is an experienced midwife with a deep passion for driving digital transformation in maternity services. She led the successful implementation of a new maternity system, overseeing everything from planning to post-implementation review. As a Clinical Safety Officer, she focuses on risk management and safe digital practice. Lisa helped shape her trust’s Maternity Digital Strategy and is now contributing to a wider EPR rollout. In 2023, she was honoured with the Chief Midwife Silver Award for Midwifery Excellence in Services to Digital Midwifery. She joined the digital network to collaborate and drive safer, innovative maternity care.

Karen has over 20 years of experience in midwifery practice, holding key leadership roles, including Labour Ward Co-ordinator, Governance Midwife, as well as assisting in the establishment of an alongside midwifery-led unit. She led on the implementation of Continuity of Midwifery Care across her Trust. Passionate about digital health, Karen had a pivotal role in maternity in her Trust with the rollout of encompass, Northern Ireland’s single digital care record system. In January 2024, she became the region’s first Lead Digital Midwife. Karen is enthusiastic about joining the UK Digital Midwifery Network to connect Northern Ireland with the wider UK, sharing best practices, and strengthening digital collaboration.

Hermione is a Specialist Digital Midwife with nearly a decade of experience, including a secondment at the RCM. She completed a Digital Leadership Scholarship with the Florence Nightingale Foundation, publishing national Electronic Record Keeping Guidelines. She has led major digital transformations, including the implementation of two EPRs. With expertise in leadership, change delivery, and digital innovation, she advocates for midwives’ voices in shaping maternity services. I am excited to represent midwives’ experiences to ensure their priorities influenced national digital policy and decision-making. Her passion for inclusive change drives her commitment to improving care through technology.

Hauwa Hamza is a Registered Midwife and Digital Clinical Facilitator, working in the Midlands. With a background in clinical practice and digital health, she brings a mix of compassion and insight to her role. Hauwa recently supported a major Electronic Patient Record (EPR) rollout and is passionate about digital transformation, midwifery education, and woman-centred care. She is committed to empowering midwives through digital literacy, using skills and experiences to drive positive change in women’s healthcare and to support the integration of technology in clinical settings. Hauwa joined the RCM Digital Network to learn, share, and help shape the future of maternity care.

Julie has been a digital midwife in NHS Fife since 2022. She has a passion for utilising digital to improve the experiences of women, their families and midwives. She also values the use of big data to improve strategic decision making.  Having successfully completed years one and two of the inaugural Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Social Care for Scotland MSc at University of Edinburgh she is about to embark on the final year. Julie also recently assumed chair of the Scottish Digital Midwives Network and wishes to join the network to enhance her vision to see digital transformation in maternity services across Scotland.

Since qualifying in 2010, Elleanor has held a variety of roles across maternity services, including midwife sonographer and Lead Midwife for 'Putting Things Right'. Her career pivoted toward digital innovation in 2021 when she joined the Patient Safety Management Team at Digital Health and Care Wales, where she became a Clinical Safety Officer. This role deepened her understanding of the complexities involved in procuring, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying digital systems in clinical settings. Inspired by the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams driving digital transformation in Wales, Elleanor embraced the opportunity to return to ABUHB as Senior Lead Informatics Specialist Midwife. She also holds an MSc in Digital Transformation for the Health and Care Professions from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Passionate about innovation, Elleanor joined the RCM Digital Network to contribute to a collaborative, supportive community focused on advancing digital maturity, shared learning, and raising the profile of digital midwives across the UK. She remains committed to improving care through collaboration, interoperability, and impactful digital solutions.

Carol Rayers has been a midwife since 2007, working in a busy regional hospital across both inpatient and community settings. A highlight of Carol’s career has been working in the birth centre. Before training as a midwife, Carol worked for a large mail order company as a business analyst and software developer. Becoming a Digital Midwife has brought these two strands of experience together, allowing Carol to contribute to projects that improve care for women and increase efficiency for midwives. Working with the RCM will allow her to do this nationally.

Experienced in both hospital and community settings, including working with vulnerable people, a qualified educator and Fellow of Advanced Higher Education with a passion for safe personalised care, patient experience and staff well-being.

Becoming a Digital Midwife in September 2024 cemented her vision for all staff to have confidence in digital clinical technologies that support their practice and have the skills to use digital systems effectively and efficiently allowing more opportunities to deliver excellent patient care; and for service users to have access to technology that enables collaboration with professionals and involvement in the management of their care.

Laura became a midwife in 2020 before exploring her digital passion in 2022. Since then, she has been supporting the maternity and neonatal unit to improve services through digital innovation. This has included, electronic observations, handovers, live bedboards with remote accessibility and the launch of BadgerNet Maternity. Laura is constantly wanting to improve services and always on the lookout for ways to utilise digital resources to reduce administration for her colleagues. Laura wanted to become a part of the network to learn from her colleagues across the country and to also share learned experiences and challenges over the last 3 years.

Cheri Lewis is the Senior Midwifery Information Officer at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, where she leads digital transformation in maternity services. She is the founder of the multi-award-winning Maternity Databank, a pioneering initiative that has enhanced digital inclusion for women and families across the Health Board. Cheri is currently locally leading the implementation of a single digital maternity record for Wales, ensuring that digital systems improve care quality and user experience. A passionate advocate for digital inclusion, she works to ensure equitable access to digital health tools for all service users. Cheri is also a Florence Nightingale Foundation Emerging Strategic Leadership Scholar, recognised for her innovation and leadership in digital midwifery. She is excited to contribute to the RCM Digital Midwives Network, sharing insights and learning from peers to shape the future of maternity care.