Sabrina Das
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
England - London (West)
Biography
Sabrina is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital. She is also the Consultant Clinical Advisor for the Improvement Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and the Human Factors Director for the Helping Our Teams Transform (HOTT) programme at Imperial. Her interests are in service-user co-design, data for improvement, and the role of human factors and workplace culture in improvement readiness and capacity for change.
She is has also worked for Medecins Sans Frontiers as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and is a staunch advocate for access to high quality women's health services globally.
Q Exchange ideas
2-way communication for family-centred, individualised birth planning and informed decision-making
We want to revolutionise the way women & families interact with HCPs, to incorporate digital tools but maintain individualised discussions to enable empowerment in making informed and personalised birth choices.
Co-producing equitable and respectful maternity care using a systems approach
Co-producing community-led service improvements in maternity care in partnership with Black women and their families, the NHS, local authorities, commmunity groups and the voluntary sector.
Helping each other through a healthy pregnancy – peer support groups for pregnant women with risk factors
Setting up peer support groups in the hospital antenatal clinic setting. Kills two birds - makes good use of hospital waiting time, as well as provides women with risk factors in their pregnancy with a network of peers with similar challenges and experiences. e.g. Older mums, pregnancy after loss, women with BMI >30, multiple pregnancy.
Blog posts
Amplifying diverse voices: ingredients for successful co-production
Sabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.
Co-creating a Big Room with families in west London
How do we harness the power of community partnership and bring together primary and secondary care with the third sector and community members to improve the health of a local population? Sabrina uses the Big Room method in the Golborne Estate in West London.
“I worked there, so I felt safe” – a medic’s experience of losing voice
Q member and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Sabrina Das shares her experience of attempting to meaningfully involve a maternity patient and colleague in an improvement conversation where she did not want to make a complaint, and yet wanted the team to learn from her negative experience.
‘Nothing has changed but everything has changed’ – a lunch hour empathy lesson
Q members, Sabrina Das and Fazeela Chharawala share a moving “HOTT Conversation”, involving a very large and complex thrombectomy team, a man who had a stroke 12 months prior, and his wife.
Co-design during a pandemic: the Antenatal Big Room
Sabrina Das and Amy Cruickshank, share their learnings in co-design for the Antenatal Big Room at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
My COVID Story: Sabrina Das
Q member, Sabrina Das shares her inspiring story of adapting to remote consultations and implementing a virtual 'Big Room' check-in to tackle crowded waiting rooms.
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Areas of interest
- Leadership
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Person-centred care
- Quality improvement
- Wider determinants of health