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Acknowledgements
CEMACH acknowledges with grateful thanks the contribution made by Dr Mary Macintosh, Medical
Director of CEMACH until 30th April 2006, to the Diabetes Programme since its inception in 2001.
Editor
Jo Modder, Clinical Director (Obstetrics)
Authors
• Jo Modder, Clinical Director (Obstetrics)
• Kate Fleming, Senior Data Analyst (until 8th November 2006)
• Dominique Acolet, Clinical Director (Neonatology) – Chapter 12
External commentators
• Kirsty Samuel, Lay Panel Assessor, Yorkshire & Humberside Region
• Sue Roberts, National Clinical Director for Diabetes
• Stephen Walkinshaw, Chair, CEMACH Diabetes Professional Advisory Group
• John Scarpello, Deputy Medical Director, National Patient Safety Agency
• Robert Fraser, Chair, NICE Diabetes in Pregnancy Guideline Development Group
• Patricia Hamilton, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to all maternity unit co-ordinators, clinicians and staff who have contributed their time
and expertise and without whom this report would not have been possible.
In particular, thanks are due to:
• All Panel Assessors for their extensive and detailed review of medical records during panel enquiries
and the signifi cant amount of time contributed to panel meetings.
• All Panel Chairs; for chairing panel enquiries in their region, supporting the CEMACH Regional
Managers, and contributing to the recommendations of this report.
• All CEMACH Regional Managers and Assistants for liaising with local clinicians, managing the data
collection process, preparing medical records for review and organising panel enquiry meetings.
• Pat Doyle, Head of Department of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
for her advice on the statistical analysis of this report.
• Tim Clayton, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
for independent statistical review of this report.
• Gillian Hawthorne, Consultant Diabetes Physician, Newcastle Diabetes Centre, for her contribution
to the analysis of enquiry panels’ free text comments.
• Oliver Rackham, Consulant Paediatrician, Arrowe Park Hospital, for his contribution to the analysis
of cause of death of stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
• Chris Wright, Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, Royal Victoria Infi rmary, for his advice regarding
the data on post mortem examination.
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