Rachel Plachcinski

Lay co-lead Public Involvement (PPI) Task Group (PRU-MNHC) npeupppi@npeu.ac.ox.uk

Biography

Rachel is a co-investigator on the Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare (PRU-MNHC). She works with Charlotte Bevan 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.

A former journalist, Rachel became interested in maternity research when she trained to run antenatal courses with National Childbirth Trust (NCT), following the birth of her third son. She went on to complete an MSc in Psychological Approaches to Health and then joined NPEU's INFANT study as a parent representative. She runs the Bump2Baby parents' voices group on Facebook and is a breastfeeding peer supporter.

Rachel is now an independent consultant on parent, patient and public involvement, supporting researchers and service user representatives in working together. She has served on the Public Advisory Board for Health Data Research UK; the Cochrane Consumer Network Executive and Editorial Board, and the UKMidSS Steering Group at NPEU. Current projects include Oxford Labour Monitoring, MuM-PreDiCT, GBS3, CaPE and GILD2.

Publications

Sanders, Barlow, Brocklehurst, Cannings-John, Channon, Cutter, Hunter, Jokinen, Lugg-Widger, Milosevic, Gale, Milton, Morantz, Paranjothy, Plachcinski, Robling.

Maternal and neonatal outcomes among spontaneous vaginal births occurring in or out of water following intrapartum water immersion: The POOL cohort study. BJOG 2024; 13(12).

Russell-Webster; Davies; Toolan; Lynch; Plachcinski; Larkin; Fraser; Barnfield; Smith; Burden et al. Cross Sectional Survey of Antenatal Educators" Views About Current Antenatal Education Provision. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2024; 28, 1520-1529.

Bevan, Alderdice, Darby, Gilzean-Hughes, McLeish, Mulla, Plachcinski, Wilkinson, Williams & Rowe. "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, 71.

Hanley; McCann; Lee; Vowles; Plachcinski; Nirantharakumar; Black; Locock; Taylor. Lost in the System: Responsibilisation and Burden for Women With Multiple Long‐Term Health Conditions During Pregnancy. Health Expectations 2024; 27(3).

Elkington; Maged; Kurinczuk; Pasupathy; Plachcinski; Rogers; Williams; Rowe. Postpartum haemorrhage occurring in UK midwifery units: A national population-based case-control study to investigate incidence, risk factors and outcomes. PLoS One 2023; 18(10).

Azcoaga-Lorenzo; Fagbamigbe; Agrawal; Black; Usman; Lee; Eastwood; Moss; Plachcinski; Nelson-Piercy et al. Maternal multimorbidity and preterm birth in Scotland: an observational record-linkage study. BMC Medicine 2023; 21(352).

Lee; Hanley; Vowles; Plachcinski; Moss; Singh; Gale; Fagbamigbe; Azcoaga-Lorenzo; Subramanian et al. The development of a core outcome set for studies of pregnant women with multimorbidity. BMC Medicine 2023; 21(314).

Lee; Hanley; Vowles; Plachcinski; Azcoaga-Lorenzo; Taylor; Nelson-Piercy; McCowan; O"Reilly; Hope et al. Key outcomes for reporting in studies of pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2023; 23(551).

Lee & The MuM-PreDiCT group. Epidemiology of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnant women in the UK in 2018: a population-based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2022; 22(120).

Brigante; Morelli; Jokinen; Plachcinski; Rowe Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on midwifery-led service provision in the United Kingdom in 2020-21: Findings of three national surveys. Midwifery 2022; 112.

Hanley; Walker; Wakefield; Plachcinski; Pallotti; Tempeste; Pillaif; Thornton; Jones; Mitchell. Managing an impacted fetal head at caesarean section: a UK survey of healthcare professionals and parents. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 2022; 271 (88-92).

Romano; Mitchell; Plachcinski; Wakefield; Walker; Ayers. The acceptability to women of techniques for managing an impacted fetal head at caesarean section and of randomised trials evaluating those techniques: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2021; 21(103).

Newburn; Scanlon; Plachcinski; Macfarlane. Involving service users in Births and their outcomes: a retrospective birth cohort data linkage study analysing daily, weekly and yearly cycles and their implications for the NHS. International Journal of Population Data Science 2020; 5(3).

Alferivic; Gyte; Pileggi; Plachcinski; Osoti; Finucane. Home versus inpatient induction of labour for improving birth outcomes. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020.

Bamber D; Powell C; Long J; Garratt R; Brown J; Rudge S; Morris T; Bhupendra Jaicim N; Plachcinski R; Dyson S et al. Parental and health professional evaluations of a support service for parents of excessively crying infants. BMC health services research 2019; 19(592).

Powell C; Bamber D; Long J; Garratt R; Brown J; Rudge S; Morris T; Bhupendra Jaicim N; Plachcinski R; Dyson S et al. Mental health and well-being in parents of excessively crying infants: Prospective evaluation of a support package. Child: care, health and development 2018.

Brocklehurst; Field; Greene; Juszczak; Keith; Kenyon; Linsell; Mabey; Newburn; Plachcinski; Quigley; Schroeder; Stee. rComputerised interpretation of fetal heart rate during labour (INFANT): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 2017. 389(10080), 1719-1729.

Newburn M; Easter A; Fletcher G; Plachcinski R. Maternity partnership working - mapping MSLCs in England. The Practising Midwife 2017. 20(1), 26-29.

Lawton R; Gardner P; Plachcinski R. Using vignettes to explore judgements of patients about safety and quality of care: the role of outcome and relationship with the care provider. Health Expectations 2010; 14(3). 296-306.