SHORTLIST FOR THE 2019 MAMA AWARDS!
THE WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED
FRIDAY 3RD MAY 2019
AWARD CATEGORIES (in no particular order) |
MIDWIFE OF THE YEAR Emma Burges Hannah Parker Amanda Garside Pauline Hynd Linda Walker |
STUDENT MIDWIFE OF THE YEAR Jade Parsons Sarah Scarlett Lauren O'Neill Mhairi Mclellan Jane Ashwell Carter |
ANTENATAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR Angela Turner Jones Kathryn Lawrence Stephanie Standing Rosie Woods Claire Duddridge |
BREASTFEEDING CHAMPION OF THE YEAR (GROUP) Breastival MilkBar Stratford La Leche League Chilterns Breastfeeding Network Ayrshire BREASTFEEDING CHAMPION OF THE YEAR (INDIVIDUAL) Jen Crawford Amy Byson Marion MacDonald Louise Thomson Sara Atherton |
MATERNITY SUPPORT WORKER OF THE YEAR Amanda Brookes Lorna Caldwell Danika Hayes Paula Saunders Emma Sasaru |
DOULA OF THE YEAR Elizabeth Bain Sam Gadsden Claire Brassington |
SPECIALIST MATERNITY SERVICE OF THE YEAR EPPC Craigavon Nurture the Borders Ros Drake Transitional Care Team Liverpool women's hospital (NICU) One to One Midwives |
MATERNITY INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR Anna + Sheena Byrom Junia Aparecida Gill Phillips + Florence Wilcock Liz Nightingale |
MIDWIFERY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Shirley Stronge Gillian Morrow Tracey Howard Melanie Cole Debbie Bunford |
The 2019 MaMa Awards Shortlist and Winners are chosen by the Judging Panel. Meet our Judges!
Professor Ann Holmes. Chief Midwifery Advisor & Associate Chief Nursing Officer Scotland
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Ken Whipp, Director of Executive Education at Entrepreneurial Scotland
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Victor Garvie, Finance Director and Advisor Birthsparks Ltd
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Dr Yana Richens OBE, Deputy Head of Maternity Services – Nursing Directorate
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Wayne Channon
Entrepreneur Life Sciences, Chairman Stabilitech Biopharma Ltd & Cells4Life Group LLP
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The diversity of our Judging Panel
The Mama Conference Awards judging panel for 2019 comprised of:
Professor Ann Holmes. Chief Midwifery Advisor & Associate Chief Nursing Officer Scotland, Scotland's first consultant midwife
Ken Whipp, Director of Executive Education at Entrepreneurial Scotland
Cass McNamara, CEO of Birthsparks Ltd. Midwife and inventor of the CUB ‘Comfortable Upright Birth’ support.
Wayne Channon, Entrepreneur Life Sciences, Chairman Stabilitech Biopharma Ltd & Cells4Life Group LLP, the UK's leading umbilical cord stem cell blood bank
Dr Yana Richens OBE, Deputy Head of Maternity Services – Nursing Directorate, CNO's Advisory group on Black and ethnic minority issues in NHS. Pioneered work that seeks to improve the lot of expectant mothers with HIV, women who suffer pre or post-natal depression and women who give birth with midwives who don't speak their language. Yana has also helped to set up a charity to improve the lives of women oppressed by the practice of FGM. Co-editor of BJM, editorial board member of the Nursing Standard
Victor Garvie, Finance Director and Advisor Birthsparks
Gillian Smith MBE, Former Director Royal College of Midwives, Patron for SiMBA Charity, Chair at Mummys Star Charity, Editorial Board for the British Journal of Midwifery, and until recently was on the FGM National Clinical Forum.
Our panel are qualified to judge by virtue of their personal, professional and academic excellence. Their skills and knowledge are drawn from a broad variety of sectors, backgrounds and personal origins.
We understand that a failure to dip into an ever-growing talent pool of diverse, well-educated and ambitious individuals would run the risk of limiting not just ourselves, but of creating a situation where bias could become a factor. In the case for the 2019 awards we believe there to be no issue with bias, however, because we do value diversity and strive to be inclusive we would like to invite dialogue with those who believe their suggestions may improve how the judges and those shortlisted are even more representative of the whole community.
Please do contact us if you would like to do so.
Sincerely,
Mama Conference Team
Birthsparks Ltd.
The Mama Conference Awards judging panel for 2019 comprised of:
Professor Ann Holmes. Chief Midwifery Advisor & Associate Chief Nursing Officer Scotland, Scotland's first consultant midwife
Ken Whipp, Director of Executive Education at Entrepreneurial Scotland
Cass McNamara, CEO of Birthsparks Ltd. Midwife and inventor of the CUB ‘Comfortable Upright Birth’ support.
Wayne Channon, Entrepreneur Life Sciences, Chairman Stabilitech Biopharma Ltd & Cells4Life Group LLP, the UK's leading umbilical cord stem cell blood bank
Dr Yana Richens OBE, Deputy Head of Maternity Services – Nursing Directorate, CNO's Advisory group on Black and ethnic minority issues in NHS. Pioneered work that seeks to improve the lot of expectant mothers with HIV, women who suffer pre or post-natal depression and women who give birth with midwives who don't speak their language. Yana has also helped to set up a charity to improve the lives of women oppressed by the practice of FGM. Co-editor of BJM, editorial board member of the Nursing Standard
Victor Garvie, Finance Director and Advisor Birthsparks
Gillian Smith MBE, Former Director Royal College of Midwives, Patron for SiMBA Charity, Chair at Mummys Star Charity, Editorial Board for the British Journal of Midwifery, and until recently was on the FGM National Clinical Forum.
Our panel are qualified to judge by virtue of their personal, professional and academic excellence. Their skills and knowledge are drawn from a broad variety of sectors, backgrounds and personal origins.
We understand that a failure to dip into an ever-growing talent pool of diverse, well-educated and ambitious individuals would run the risk of limiting not just ourselves, but of creating a situation where bias could become a factor. In the case for the 2019 awards we believe there to be no issue with bias, however, because we do value diversity and strive to be inclusive we would like to invite dialogue with those who believe their suggestions may improve how the judges and those shortlisted are even more representative of the whole community.
Please do contact us if you would like to do so.
Sincerely,
Mama Conference Team
Birthsparks Ltd.
