Donna Ockenden

Donna Ockenden is a respected and high profile health care leader with more than 35 years’ experience both in the UK and internationally. Her most notable work has been as Chair of the Independent Reviews of Maternity Services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust; and Chair of the Governance Review at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and the enquiry into the Tawel Fan Ward at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd published in July 2018, and 2014 respectively. In May 2022, Donna was appointed as the new Chair of the ongoing Independent Review into Maternity Services at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in May 2022.

Donna founded the Four Streets Project with her daughters, Caiti and Phoebe in 2016, to help homeless people in Chichester by providing them with food, bedding, and warm clothing. Donna is proud to be an ambassador for Sands, an ambassador for Footprints Baby Loss, a Patron of MASIC supporting birth injured women, and an ambassador for MAMA Academy.