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Michelle Quashie

Michelle Quashie

Maternity Improvement Campaigner

Biography

Michelle has been working to improve maternity care for the past 11 years and has founded and been involved in several campaigns. Her work is inspired by lived experiences of individuals accessing maternity care and the births of her own four children. Michelle is particularly interested in Human Rights in Childbirth, and informed decision-making to ensure a personalised approach to maternity care and holds a firm belief that care can only be determined as safe by those receiving care. Michelle founded The Women's Voices Conference in 2016, held at King’s College London, and in 2017 was held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology. She has an extensive track record of influencing transformational change in all areas of maternity, at local, regional, and national levels in the UK, for example, in education, recruitment, policy, service provision, public-facing information and training resources, service user engagement, and cultural change. Michelle worked on the UK’s National Maternity Transformation Programme with the Choice and Personalisation workstream and co-produced the national Personalised Care and Support Planning guidance published in March 2021. Her determination and perseverance saw the term ‘Shared Decision Making’ be replaced with ‘Informed Decision Making‘ in national maternity literature and policy guidance.

Research

Learning from Beacon Sites for optimal maternity care: A Safety I/Safety II approach

This study is an NIHR Programme Development Grant to explore high quality maternity care through a realist review.

Project status: Starting

Research

Learning from Beacon Sites for optimal maternity care: A Safety I/Safety II approach

This study is an NIHR Programme Development Grant to explore high quality maternity care through a realist review.

Project status: Starting