Cathy Warwick (midwife)

Dame Catherine Lilian "Cathy" Warwick DBE is a Scottish midwife, trade union leader, and abortion rights activist. She has been the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives from 2008 until 2017, and is also Chair of Trustees of BPAS, one of the UK's leading providers of abortion services.

She received a nursing degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, and completed a one-year midwifery course at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in 1976.[1] She is an Honorary Professor of Midwifery at King's College London School of Midwifery. She was appointed a CBE for services to healthcare in the 2006 Birthday Honours and elevated to DBE in the 2018 New Year Honours.

She was ranked sixth in the Health Service Journal's list of Clinical Leaders in 2015.[2] In October 2014, she led the first ever strike by midwives in the United Kingdom.[3]

Warwick is also a feminist who has espoused the belief that women should be able to make their own choices regardless of what those choices may be.[4]

References

  1. ^ "RCM Staff Biographies". Royal College of Midwives. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. ^ "HSJ Clinical Leaders 2015". Health Service Journal. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Midwives to strike for first time in history in row over pay". Metro News. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  4. ^ Moore, Alison (9 November 2011). "There Will Be Terrible Casualties". Nursing Standard. 26 (10): 24–25. doi:10.7748/ns.26.10.24.s29. PMID 22206169.


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