03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Maternity & neonatal
Claire Macdiarmid: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Claire Macdiarmid
interim group director of maternity
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press citations on 1 topic since 23 Aug 2026 · last quoted 27 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Claire Macdiarmid: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- interim group director of maternity
- Quoted on
- Maternity & neonatal
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 23 Aug 2026
04 The signal · where Claire Macdiarmid sits on maternity & neonatal
Ranked 65= of 100 voices quoted in the press on maternity & neonatal, level with 24 others on 4 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Donna OckendenClinicianChair of Independent Maternity Reviews; Director, Donna Ockenden Limited115 - 2
Vanessa PurdayClinicianChief Medical Officer, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust25 - 3
Gill WaltonUnionChief Executive and General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)24 - 65=Dr Helen GbinigieClinicianNeonatal Consultant4
- 65=Rhonda HendryClinicianPre-Pregnancy Midwife, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde4
- 65=Claire MacdiarmidSector leaderinterim group director of maternity4
- 65=Dr Beverley AdamsCliniciandivisional medical director for Integrated Maternity and Women's Health at the trust4
- 65=Claire McDermottCliniciandirector of midwifery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust4
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 65=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Claire Macdiarmid has said
By outlet · linked articles
- expressandstar.com2
- birminghammail.co.uk1
- stourbridgenews.co.uk1
Where Claire Macdiarmid has been quoted
- 01Mum who defied doctors who told her to abort her son 'determined to get him walking'expressandstar.com · 27 Oct 2026
- 02Dudley maternity and end-of-life care teams win national safety awardsstourbridgenews.co.uk · 3 Oct 2026
- 03Dudley NHS trust celebrates double win at national patient safety awardsexpressandstar.com · 30 Sept 2026
- 04Mum says 'substandard hospital care' could 'easily have cost her son his life'birminghammail.co.uk · 23 Aug 2026
Verbatim
“Our priority is always to ensure that families receive compassionate, individualised care, with advice based on the clinical information available at the time and in accordance with national guidance.”
“What makes me particularly proud is the way colleagues have challenged themselves to do things differently, worked across traditional boundaries and kept families at the heart of everything they do.”
“What makes me particularly proud is the way colleagues have challenged themselves to do things differently, worked across traditional boundaries and kept families at the heart of everything they do”
“We are deeply sorry for the distress this experience has caused. An independent investigation carried out by the MNSI programme identified a number of areas where care fell below the standards we expect, and we have already acted on the findings to strengthen our maternity and neonatal services.”
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