Dr Sarah Bates
National Quality Lead for the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM)
Dr Sarah Bates is a Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist in Swindon, where she is now the joint Clinical Lead for Neonatal Medicine. Dr. Bates is a co-author of the 2019 BAPM Extremely Preterm Framework, and she is passionate about perinatal team culture, working together to reduce death and brain injury in preterm infants through implementation of simple, low cost evidence-based interventions, with particular focus on Optimal Cord Management and Early Maternal Breast Milk. She is the PERIPrem Operational Clinical Lead across the South West of England and has been involved in national perinatal preterm optimisation toolkits for BAPM, National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) and MatNeoSIP, chairing both working groups for QI toolkits to optimise Maternal Breast Milk for Preterm Babies.