Dr Clare Macdonald

Dr Clare Macdonald

Department of Applied Health Sciences
PhD Student

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Clare is a PhD student exploring how to improve identification and management of mental and other health problems in the GP postnatal check.  She started her studentship with the NIHR ARC West Midlands Maternity Theme in April 2021. She is also a practicing GP in Leicester, and completed her medical training in Norfolk and Derbyshire. Clare has a longstanding interest in postnatal care and infant feeding. She is Chair of ‘GPs Championing Perinatal Care’ (GPCPC) and sits on the NHS England Postnatal Care Working Group. Clare was the GP committee member for the NICE Postnatal Care Clinical Guideline.

Qualifications

  • MRCGP 2014
  • DRCOG 2010
  • MB BS, University of East Anglia, 2007

Doctoral research

PhD title
How to improve identification and management of mental and other health problems in the GP postnatal check Expected year of completion: 2024    Third supervisor: Dr Ellie Jones
Supervisors
Dr Beck Taylor and Professor Christine MacArthur

Other activities

  • GPs Championing Perinatal Care (GPCPC) - Chair 2023-present
  • GP Infant Feeding Network (UK) - Team Member 2016-present
  • NICE Guideline Committee Member - Postnatal Care 2017-2021

Publications

Macdonald C, MacGregor B, Hillman S, et alQualitative systematic review of general practitioners’ (GPs’) views and experiences of providing postnatal care BMJ Open 2023;13:e070005. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070005

Macdonald C, Sharma S, Kallioinen M, et al Postnatal care: new NICE guideline for the ‘Cinderella service’ BJGP 2021; 71 (710): 394-395