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Meet the Committee
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Julie
Orford - CHAIR
Julie works as a freelance graphic designer and is currently studying
for a degree in Psychology. She had a traumatic forceps delivery in August
2004 and joined the BTA as a volunteer shortly after that.
Julie went on to have two miscarriages, before a very
positive subsequent birth in 2009. She is Chair of the BTA,
and has responsibility for the BTA website/publications as well as running
birth trauma training sessions for health care professionals. Julie has
been the Chair of her local MSLC and has worked with the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), as a
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Maureen
Treadwell
Maureen Treadwell is co-founder of the BTA. She previously worked as a
lecturer setting up her own company. Maureen was a member of the Guideline
Development Group for the Intrapartum Care guidelines for the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). Maureen also runs the media team. |
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Lucy
Jolin
Lucy became interested in birth trauma after suffering postnatal depression,
bonding problems and PTSD following the birth of her son in 2006. She is
particularly committed to breaking the taboos around talking about difficult
birth and bonding issues. She is a freelance health journalist and author
who has contributed to numerous national magazines, newspapers and websites.
Lucy has since had a subsequent positive birth. |
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Rebecca
Dickinson
Rebecca is a nurse and currently works as a researcher at the
University of Leeds. Much of her research work focuses on medicines information
for patients and examines ways in which patients can take their medicines
to best effect. Rebecca experienced a traumatic birth in 2008 with the
birth of her son and volunteered with the BTA in 2009. Rebecca aims to
utilise her research skills and knowledge to help raise awareness and prevent
the incidence of birth trauma. Rebecca went on to have a much more positive
birth experience in 2010. |
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Lou Silver
Lou
works as a Project Development Officer
in Student Support Services at Nottingham Trent University.
Her areas of work include mental health, autism, disability
and care leavers. She has previously worked for a number
of years managing local, regional and national volunteer
programmes in the fields of housing advice, money education
and refugee awareness. She had a traumatic birth in
2010 following a lengthy induction and emergency c-section,
and joined the BTA in 2011 shortly after completing
a course of EMDR therapy. She is responsible for developing
our volunteer peer support programme. |
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Paul Alway - TRUSTEE
Paul is a design engineer/project manager
for a large refrigeration contractor and is also a
part-time session drummer. Paul agreed to become a
BTA trustee after witnessing traumatic events in the
delivery room in 2004 at the birth of his son. He wishes
to ensure that the good work of the BTA continues to
go from strength to strength and helps as many people
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Dr Debbie Sayers - TRUSTEE
Debbie was a co-founder of the BTA. She is
a qualified Solicitor with a PhD and has a particular
expertise in human rights law. She has worked on issues
of prevention, hospital training, support, website
and newsletter development. Debbie has also written
many of the BTA publications. |
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Emeritus Professor Brian Toft OBE - PATRON
BA (Hons), Dip Comp Sci (Cantab), PhD,
ICDDS Dipl, FIOSH, FIIRSM, Hon FICPEM, FRSA
Educated at the Universities of Lancaster, Exeter
and Cambridge Brian Toft is Emeritus Professor of
Patient Safety at Coventry University, visiting Professor
of Patient Safety at Brighton and Sussex Medical
School, Chairman of the NPSA External Reference Groups
for Safer Neuraxial Devices and holds several senior
advisory positions including membership of the World
Health Organisation’s European Regional Advisory
Council on patient safety and healthcare.
In 2001
Brian was the first non-physician to chair an external
inquiry into the death of a patient in the National
Health Service. He was presented with the Royal College
of Radiologists Glyn Evans Memorial Lecture Medal
for his work on ‘involuntary
automaticity’ in 2006 and awarded an OBE for
his services to healthcare in the 2010 Queen’s
Birthday Honours List.
Brian has published over 70 papers on the subject
of risk management and patient safety. He is the
lead author of Learning from Disasters: a management
approach published by Palgrave Macmillan, a member
of the USA Joint Commission International: International
Editorial Advisory Board, the UK Editorial Boards
of Risk Management: an International Journal and
Emergency Management Review.
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