Medical Clinical Lead, Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC); Australia

Dr Felicity Gallimore is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who gained her medical degree from the University of Cambridge, UK prior to moving to Sydney where she underwent her specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology training. After 20+ years in Obstetric practice, Felicity has become involved in the world of clinical data utilisation initially through the University of Sydney and then with the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) as Medical Clinical Co-Lead for the Maternity Intelligence System (QIDS MatIQ). She is a founder member of the team that conceived, developed and is implementing the CEC’s QIDS MatIQ system which is bringing near real-time maternity and neonatal outcome data from NSW’s public maternity hospitals directly back to the clinicians. Already, information from nearly 150,000 births across NSW can be accessed using QIDS MatIQ and insights from this data (collected as recently as last week) can be utilised.