Dame Lorna Elizabeth Muirhead (née Fox) is a past President of the

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and from 2006 until her retirement in 2017 she served as the

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. In 1992, she joined the Council of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and was elected president in 1997. She served two terms until 2004 while continuing her work as a clinical midwife. During her presidency she represented the RCM in, among other venues: * Council of the

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(RCOG) * Joint RCM/RCOG committee * Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (SNMAC) * Women's National Commission * Council of the International Confederation of Midwives * Specialist Register of the English National Board * Benevolent Fund Committee of the Royal College of Midwives Trust * Council of the Kings Fund * National Service Framework for Midwifery

Other affiliations

Muirhead was a midwifery adviser on Baby Lifeline; a member of the Council of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; national midwifery adviser for

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; and served as

. She is also currently (June 2011) president of Merseyside County Scout Council, a county of

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in the United Kingdom. Dame Lorna is a long-standing co-president (with eminent obstetrician Professor James Drife) of the national charity Baby Lifeline. She is also a patron of the Birkenhead Choral Society. She is an honorary member of The Rotary Club of Birkenhead.

Personal details

She is married to Ronald Muirhead. The couple has a son and a daughter.

Honours

* She was appointed

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(DBE) in 2000 for her services to

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. * In 2001, she became a fellow of the RCOG and was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool's

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the same year. In 2004 she received the inaugural award from the RCM for her lifetime achievement in midwifery. * She was appointed

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(DCVO) in the

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for her services as

References

External links

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