Dr Susie Crowe is a leading voice in intrapartum care in the UK. In addition to working as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London, she is a National Specialty Advisor in Obstetrics at NHS England and President of the British Intrapartum Care Society. She has also held a number of roles within the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and is currently the National Workplace Behaviours Advisor. She has either led or been actively involved in many national UK projects over recent years to improve maternity care with a focus on improving both outcomes and experience for women and babies. She regularly speaks nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics relating to this, including fetal monitoring, assisted vaginal birth, and patient safety. 

Jen Hall is the Digital Communications and Campaign Manager at MASIC. Jen became involved with the charity after suffering a 3rd degree OASI injury after a forceps delivery. She is passionate about campaigning for informed consent during childbirth, and working at MASIC to focus on injury prevention and supporting women to share their stories of childbirth injury and trauma. 

Chloë Oliver is the CEO of the MASIC Foundation and joined the charity in 2022. Chloe has responsibility for both strategic leadership and operational management of the charity as well as for fundraising and governance. Her over-arching aim is to grow the charity and to strengthen its position as the leading authority on serious birth injuries. She was on the Birth Trauma Inquiry Special Advisory Group and the Inquiry's report was launched on the 13th of May 2024 in the Palace of Westminster – the culmination of 9 months work by the APPG.

Chloe has worked in the charity sector for almost 25 years. She has worked in fundraising at a number of large national charities including Help the Aged, The Stroke Association and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity where she drove new business and developed and managed high profile corporate partnerships. In 2009 she joined COSMIC, the charity supporting intensive care at Imperial College Healthcare Trust – where she worked closely with clinicians and NHS managers to develop projects and initiatives, and led successful capital appeals and developed sustainable multi-channel fundraising.
Chloe is passionate about ensuring women’s voices are heard and that they have the support that they need.

Posy is a midwife and was the Clinical Research Fellow for the OASI Care Bundle. This was a quality improvement project across 16 maternity units in England, Wales and Scotland to reduce severe perineal injury. The OASI Care Bundle was funded by the Health Foundation and was led by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Royal College of Midwives. Evaluation of the OASI Care Bundle found it to be effective at reducing severe perineal injury and so funding was obtained by the Health Foundation to upscale the intervention to a further 20 sites as part of ‘OASI2’. Posy sat on the Independent Advisory Group for this.

Posy’s main area of interest is prevention of severe perineal injury, with a particular focus on raising awareness amongst women and healthcare workers

Posy is Trustee for the MASIC Foundation (a charity which supports women who have experienced injury during childbirth).

As a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Plymouth, he set up a clinical and research Urogynaecology unit over 30yrs ago. Several trainees have obtained MD’s and PhD from Plymouth University. The unit is an RCOG approved centre for subspecialty training and is accredited by the national society (BSUG).

With others, he has helped with the RCOG/RCM ‘OASI Care Bundle’ for the prevention of obstetric anal sphincter injury, the UR-CHOICE risk assessment tool for identifying those at-risk of long-term incontinence and prolapse, and the Episcissors-60 for the safe angle of episiotomy.

He is a member of the NHS England’s Perinatal Pelvic Health Initiative Implementation group and has set up a collaboration of 9 societies to produce a consensus statement on assisted vaginal birth (forceps, ventouse), to make this safer for both mothers and babies.

His main area of interest is the prevention of obstetric pelvic floor injury and he has written and lectured on this both nationally and internationally.

Previously he was a scientific editor for the International Urogynecology Journal and the BJOG.

He helped form the British Society of Urogynaecology as founding Secretary in 2001, and was Chairman 2006-2009.

He was President of the International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) from 2014-2016.

He is now education chair for the MASIC Foundation (the UK charity for women who have suffered birth injury) and a Trustee for the Birth Trauma Association.

Theo Clarke was the Member of Parliament for Stafford and Chair of the UK Birth Trauma Inquiry in Parliament. She set up and chaired the cross party All Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma and led the historic birth trauma debate in the House of Commons where she bravely shared her own experience. Theo served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at HM Treasury, Trade Envoy to the Prime Minister and as a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee. She was previously Chief Executive of the Coalition for Global Prosperity backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.