Dr Philip Banfield is unable to accept instructions currently.Dr Philip Banfield has been a Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Glan Clwyd Hospital NHS Health Board for nearly 24 years.  He is local Clinical Lead for undergraduate teaching at the North Wales Clinical School, and Honorary Senior Lecturer with Cardiff, Bangor and Swansea Universities.His particular clinical and research interests are high risk antenatal care; intrapartum care; fetal monitoring; the care of critically ill and deteriorating pregnant patients; breast cancer in pregnancy; and capacity to consent in obstetric emergencies.

Dr Banfield graduated from St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1984.  He continued his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Cambridge, Norwich, Basingstoke and London, and trained in anaesthetics in Chelmsford.  Throughout his career, Dr Banfield has worked in units that have undertaken neonatal intensive care and accepted in-utero transfers of high risk pregnancies.

From 2009 – 2012 Dr Banfield was a member of the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group.  He has been a WHO expert in Quality Assurance in Perinatal Medicine.  Between 2011 – 2014, as National Faculty Lead (1000 Lives Transforming Maternity Care) he was responsible for Welsh national guidelines for blood clot prevention, sepsis in pregnancy and care of the critically ill and deteriorating pregnant woman.  He established, and was the Inaugural Chair of, the Welsh Initiative for Stillbirth Reduction.

From 2010 – 2016 Dr Banfield was a member of the UK Obstetric Surveillance System national steering group and, since 2015, he has been an Obstetric Assessor for the UK National Maternal Mortality Confidential Enquiries.  In this capacity he is required to review anonymised case notes and assess whether the standard of care was good or whether improvements to care would have affected the outcome.

In 2007 Dr Banfield became an instructor with the Advanced Life Support Group; Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma; and Pre-hospital Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma courses.  He has held the role of course director and of quality assessor.

Dr Banfield is nationally recognised for his clinical excellence, for his leadership and as an educator – teaching undergraduates, doctors, midwives and paramedics in obstetric emergencies; how and why individuals and teams make mistakes, and how to try to avoid them.