Skip to content Skip to main menu Skip to utility menu

Heartbeat: SWBH Women’s Clinician Network – “Women Empowering Women”

January 24, 2020

Following the success of the “Women Empowering Women” conference in May this year, there was an overwhelming demand for a clinical network. Colleagues who flocked to the conference felt so strongly about the empowering messages that they felt they should develop an ongoing network to continue their work and so the SWBH Women’s Clinician Network was born.

Launching the network, Heartbeat caught up with Deputy Medical Director and Consultant in Acute Medicine, Dr Sarb Clare. She said, “When we launched the first Women Empowering Women Conference we knew there was a desperate need for women to be heard, empowered and encouraged to be the best that they can be. It wasn’t long in to the conference that we knew this couldn’t be a simple one off event, there needed to be an ongoing momentum to this work and before we knew it, the SWBH Women’s Clinician Network was born. “

The network has four simple but powerful aims and objectives, to encourage role modelling, offering mentoring and career advice, promoting leadership and most importantly being a safe place to raise concerns.

Founding members of the network include:

  • Dr Sarb Clare – Deputy MD and Consultant Acute Medicine Lead
  • Raffaela Goodby- Executive Director for People and Organisational Development
  • Dr May Yan – RCP Tutor and Consultant Acute Medicine
  • Dr Sarah Faloon – CMT2
  • Dr Christine Wright – Safety Guardian, Consultant Haematologist
  • Dr Alison Eastaugh – RCP Chief Registrar, SpR Elderly Care
  • Miss Mei Ju Hwang – Consultant Breast Surgeon
  • Dr Huma Naqvi – FY1 Tutor, Ortho- Geriatrician

The network will also be launching sessions on positive thinking and how to manage inappropriate verbal and non verbal language in the New Year with the help of this year’s Star Awards Employee of the year and Organisational Development Specialist Trainer Richard Burnell.