Thomas McEwan
Tom has practiced as a team midwife delivering caseload-based care, a senior charge midwife within a neonatal unit and an advanced practitioner in neonatal nursing, and has been a midwife since 1999.
He is currently Principal Educator within the Women’s, Children, Young People and Families team and will assume the role of Professional Lead Midwife for NHS Education for Scotland (NES).
He has recently completed a secondment as Professional Lead Midwife for Heathcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), supporting their work around standards for maternity care, inspections of maternity services in acute settings and the development of a perinatal quality management system.
He is the strategic lead for the Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme (SMMDP) and has additional responsibility for national midwifery, maternity and neonatal workforce and educational developments. He is a board member for the Scottish Cot Death Trust and the Consultant Editor for the British Journal of Midwifery.
From an international perspective he has contributed to evidence-based guidance for newborn skin care and taught neonatal nurses in Vietnam. He has also published numerous peer reviewed articles and contributes to midwifery textbooks including Rankin's Physiology in Childbearing.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a Doctorate in Professional Studies. His years of experience as a midwife, advanced clinical practitioner, academic, educator, researcher and professional leader have provided him with a sound knowledge of the midwifery, maternity and perinatal care systems.
