Dr Sarah Winfield

Sarah has worked full-time as a Consultant Obstetrician since 2008 and is based at the Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust where she is the lead for the Maternal Medicine service. This is a busy district general hospital Trust covering 3 sites (Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract) with 6000 deliveries a year and it serves a large population of women with complex medical and social issues. Sarah runs a weekly maternal medicine clinic plus a weekly diabetes antenatal clinic and sees high risk obstetric patients for pre-pregnancy counselling, in antenatal clinic and participates in the consultant on-call rota on delivery suite. Sarah also develops and maintains links with the Yorkshire and Humber Maternal Medicine network to ensure that all women in her unit with complex pregnancies receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. 

From August 2021 to December 2023 Sarah worked as the first Regional Lead Obstetrician for the North East and Yorkshire Region. Prior to that, she was the Clinical Lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Network and the North of England Representative for the NHS England ‘Specialised Women’s Services’ Clinical Reference Group.  These outward-facing roles have enabled Sarah to contribute to development of maternity services locally, regionally and nationally, supporting implementation of the National Maternity Transformation Program and recommendations from the Ockenden and East Kent reports about maternity services. From July 2021 Sarah has been the independent chair of the Northwest Maternal Medicine Board, working with key stakeholders and the wider team to oversee implementation of this important national maternity safety ambition.