Philip Banfield

Philip Banfield has been a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in North Wales for the past 27 years. He is honorary professor in the Cardiff University School of Medicine and has been recognised nationally for his teaching and educational innovations.

Professor Banfield has spent his career improving clinical outcomes for women, expectant mothers and babies, including his pioneering collaborative work on computerised fetal heart rate analysis during labour.

His extensive involvement in improving maternal and infant mortality rates includes his roles as an obstetric assessor for the confidential enquiries into maternal deaths and the obstetric clinical expert on the NICE 2021 Neonatal Infection Guideline update committee.