Charlotte Bevan
Lay co-lead Public Involvement (PPI) Task Group (PRU-MNHC) npeupppi@npeu.ac.ox.uk
Biography
Charlotte Bevan is co-investigator on the Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare (PRU-MNHC). She works with Rachel Plachcinski as lay co-lead for the public involvement (PPI) Task Group, ensuring the parent, patient and public perspective is at the heart of the PRU-MNHC's work.
Charlotte is a former journalist, having worked in print, broadcast and on-line media in the UK and south-east Asia, where she was a BBC WorldService correspondent. She became involved in maternity research when her first daughter Hope died shortly after birth in 2001. Charlotte worked for Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity for 17 years, as co-lead for Saving Babies' Lives team, representing the charity on the MBRRACE-UK and the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) collaborations; the National Child Mortality Database and the National Hub for learning from the deaths of children and young people in Scotland. She has been involved as co-applicant/lived experience advisor, as well as an independent PPI consultant, for several studies related to perinatal outcomes, including Listening to Parents, the first national survey of bereaved parents in England. Currently she also co-leads PPI for Oxford Labour Monitoring at the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health.
Publications
Adams MA, Bevan C, Booker M, Hartley J, Heazell AE, Montgomery E, et al. Strengthening open disclosure in maternity services in the English NHS: the DISCERN realist evaluation study. Health Soc Care Deliv Res 2024;12(22)
Bevan C, Alderdice F, Darby S, Gilzean-Hughes S, McLeish J, Mulla S, Plachcinski R, Wilkinson S, Williams H, Rowe R. 'The Listening Series': increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in patient and public involvement and engagement for policy research by listening to and learning from under-represented groups. Res Involv Engagem. 2024;10(1):71.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38965636/
In their own words: Parents' experiences of review, 2021, on behalf of Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity
Marian Knight, Charlotte Bevan "Achieving safer maternity care in the UK" British Medical Journal editorial (12 January 2021); doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n45
LK Smith, J Dickens, R Bender Atik, C Bevan, J Fisher, L Hinton; Parents' experiences of care following the loss of a baby at the margins between miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death: a UK qualitative study, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2020
Rachel Rowe, Elizabeth S Draper, Sara Kenyon, Charlotte Bevan, Joanne Dickens, Mandy Forrester, Rachel Scanlan, Derek Tuffnell, Jennifer J Kurinczuk; Intrapartum-related perinatal deaths in births planned in midwifery-led settings in Great Britain: findings and recommendations from the ESMiE confidential enquiry; British Medical Journal, 2020
Lewis C, Riddington M, Hill M, Bevan C, Fisher J, Lyas L, Chalmers A, Arthurs O, Hutchinson J, Chitty L, Sebire NJ The communication and support from the health professional is incredibly important: A qualitative study exploring the processes and practices that support parental decision ‐ making about postmortem examination Wiley Prenatal Diagnosis, 2019
Bakhbakhi D, Siassakos D, Lynch M, Timlin L, Storey C, Heazell A, Burden C and the Parents Collaborative Group, Karen Luyt, Caroline Lee-Davey, Inge Sheppherd, Maggie Redshaw, Jane Scott, Cheryl Titherly, Kath Evans, Janet Scott, Mary Molloy, Tracey Mills, Carol Kingdom, Vicky Sleap, Nathalya Kennedy, Charlotte Bevan, Tracy Coombs, Jenny Kurinczuk, Ann Remmers, Jan Jap Erwich, Katy Gold. PARENTS 2 Study: consensus report for parental engagement in the perinatal mortality review process; Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2018
Lewis C, Riddington M, Hill M, Arthurs O, Hutchinson J, Chitty L, Bevan C, Fisher J, Ward J, Sebire N, Availability of Less Invasive Prenatal, Perinatal and Paediatric Autopsy will Improve Uptake Rates; A Mixed Methods Study with Bereaved Parents. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2018
Heazell AE, Whitworth MK, Whitcombe J, Glover SW, Bevan C, Brewin J, et al. Research priorities for stillbirth: process overview and results from UK Stillbirth Priority Setting Partnership. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology: the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2015
Arthurs OJ, Bevan C, Sebire NJ. Editorial: Less invasive investigation of perinatal death. British Medical Journal, 2015
Kurinczuk JJ, Draper ES, Field DJ, Bevan C, Brocklehurst P, Gray R, et al. Experiences with maternal and perinatal death reviews in the UK--the MBRRACE-UK programme. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2014
Bevan C, Scott J. Saving babies' lives. The Practising Midwife, 2009;12(9):19-20.
