Paediatric Registrar, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; England

Dr Claire Stewart is a paediatric registrar at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and is the National Trainee Representative for the British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH). She has won multiple national and international awards for leading transformative quality improvement initiatives that have changed national standards and practices. She has 14 peer reviewed publications, has spoken in 19 international conference and is a future leader in the field of community paediatrics. Recognising that difficult subject matter can create a communication need in any child, her latest work to change the way the voice of the child is heard in clinical conversations and safeguarding proceedings to ensure a need for verbal communication is never a barrier to being heard is driving improvements in care and safeguarding standards across the UK.