Mrs Sascha Koutrouza
Sascha studied Midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire, graduating in 2002.
She has a broad midwifery experience having worked in all clinical areas across maternity including, labour ward, ante/postnatal wards, Triage, Antenatal clinic and community.
After many years as a rotational midwife Sascha became a core Midwife on the postnatal ward. Here, she developed an interest in maternal medicine. In 2018, Sascha became a Diabetes Specialist Midwife undertaking the care and coordination of services for women with diabetes throughout all stages of their journey through maternity. A compassionate midwife, with an enthusiasm for patient and staff experience, Sascha felt that there was a need to shift the way diabetic services were delivered in pregnancy and at the start of the Covid pandemic, she looked at how digital solutions in healthcare could enhance the service, outcomes and experiences of the women in her care.
This work saw her being approached to sit on the CNO’s SPDMC for NHSX. The group of highly motivated individuals selected for their digital talents and improvements across the NHS, collaborate regularly with a view to promote digital solutions across prevent boundaries and improve interoperability and the wealth of benefits that brings. Following on from the success of her fully virtual clinics with remote monitoring she was recognised nationally and in 2020 was awarded a Chief Midwifery Officers Silver award.
Sascha continues to work tirelessly to provide women with medical complexities, seamless integrated care by ensuring that midwifery is not lost among the MDT and the use of digital solutions are utilised to maximise all efforts in the delivery of safe care and patient experience.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Sascha has witnessed the benefit of fantastic leadership in practice. She comes from a culture of compassionate engaging leadership and has had the opportunity to flourish and gain the skills and confidence required to progress and navigate around the challenges of the health care system. Sascha has worked alongside leaders from both her organisation and nationally and has clear insight of the benefits that great leadership can have from an individual aspect and the system as a whole. Great leadership can inspire and motivate, Sascha puts the success of her improvement projects and a degree of her enthusiasm down to the influence that her senior leadership team had on her. She hopes that with this experience she can lead, inspire and influence others to also strive for excellence and change in order to shape midwifery services locally, regionally and nationally.
