Sam Bassett Editor

Jan Bowden is an experienced lecturer in Midwifery at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London and external examiner. She is passionate about the role of the midwife in public health and health promotion, contraception and sexual health including abortion, FGM and women’s health and is currently involved in a project to develop the academic literacy skills of midwifery students.

Sam Bassett is Head of Department and Lead Midwife for Education at King’s College London. An experienced midwife her specialist areas of interest are maternal medical complexities, midwifery emergencies and maternal high dependency care. Clinical midwifery practice remains central to Sam’s work and she continues to contribute nationally to the development of key guidelines/publications, instruct on courses such as NLS and represent midwifery on courses such as mMOET.