Grenville has been a Consultant Neonatologist at Guys’ & St.Thomas and the Evelina London since 1996, having trained previously in Leicester, London and Toronto.

Grenville sits on the NHS England Neonatal Intensive Care Clinical Reference Group (CRG) the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) Executive Committee and the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health Specialist Advisory Committee (RCPCH CSAC) for Neonatal Medicine. He also has clinical and research interests in neonatal respiratory support and quality improvement and currently leads the New Models of Care Workstream on behalf of NHS England for the Neonatal Critical Care Review.

Suzanne has over two decades of operational management experience gained in acute London NHS hospitals. She has worked in a variety of senior roles across major trauma (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), A&E and NHS England. Suzanne’s journey with neonates began in 2011, managing the then north central London Perinatal Network. In January 2014, Suzanne was appointed as the London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN) Director. She is an Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences and holds a Masters degree in Healthcare Leadership and a first class honours degree in Early Years (Health & Development) which allows her to combine her interest in child health with a role which brings her into contact with babies and families at a vulnerable time in their lives. She received an OBE in the 2020 Queens Birthday Honours List for services to neonatal provision in the NHS, and currently leads an exciting programme of work to improve the quality and outcome of neonatal care in London.

Nigel currently supports the network director to deliver the core functions of the network, including overseeing its day to day operations. Nigel also leads a number of exciting and innovative transformational projects, which aims to improve the quality and outcome of neonatal care across London ODN.

Jenni Jagodzinski is the Lead Nurse for the London ODN. Jenni has been a qualified nurse for over 30 years, with over twenty of those as a neonatal nurse. Jenni originally trained as an adult nurse in Brighton and then as a Midwife more locally in Greenwich, before finding her passion in neonates. Jenni has worked in various neonatal units across South East London. Jenni has a first-class honours degree specialising in neonatal nursing and is also an enhanced neonatal nursing practitioner (ENNP); Jenni has worked as a Senior Nurse/Matron since 2007 before joining the Network full time in 2018.

Dee, brings over 14 years of neonatal nursing experience of which 10 of those years were based in a busy Neonatal Intensive Care unit. As Education and Workforce Lead, she has made significant contributions to neonatal education, having developed and delivered the Foundation in Neonatal Care module, along with numerous study days for nursing teams and the Multidisciplinary team. Actively engaged in national projects and supporting regional practice education leads, Dee is committed to imparting knowledge, fostering staff development, and promoting equity and diversity, a catalyst for positive change and shared practice in neonatal care.

Zeshan Rawn has over 20 years’ experience in planning and performance, information analysis and business intelligence. Having worked across manufacturing, police, social housing, adults and children’s social care, education, public health, commissioning, mental health and neonatal intensive care; he joined the London Neonatal ODN in 2018 from Evelina London.
As the ODN’s Senior Information Manager, Zeshan develops and maintains reporting across the three Neonatal Networks and each of the five Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems; ensuring they have accurate, timely and informative data and analysis to deliver the best care in the right location.

Natalie supports the ODN management team to deliver effective business and provide administrative support to enable this delivery. She ensures the smooth running of ODN activities which includes the preparation and documentation of a number of ODN governance meetings. Natalie also provides project management support to a number of transformational projects within the ODN to ensure on time delivery.

Dr Justin Richards is the clinical lead for South London Neonatal ODN. He trained in London and the majority of his post-graduate medical training was also in London, although he did spend an additional 2 years in Canada in a Neonatal Fellowship training and research program. He has been working as a consultant neonatologist at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2007.
He has a wealth of experience in clinical leadership,  with previous posts including Neonatal Care Group Lead (service lead),  Clinical Director for the Children’s Directorate, and Divisional Chair,  all at St George’s Hospital, London.
He is also currently the Chair of the Neonatal Program for the South West London Maternity and Neonatal Network. His clinical interests include quality measurement and service improvement, prevention of neonatal brain injury and team and system resilience.

Khadija is the Women and Children and Specialist Services Care Group Clinical Director at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust where she has been a Neonatal consultant since 2016. She is the neonatal co-chair for NWL LMNS. Khadija is also the NWL training program director (TPD) for St1-St3a paediatrics speciality trainees. She has MSc in Advanced Clinical Paediatrics, ICH, UCL.

Dr Nandiran Ratnavel is the joint clinical lead for the North Central & East London Neonatal Network. He is a co-chair for the NEL LMNS, joint implementation lead for the London IUT policy, neonatal lead for the UCLP MatNeoSip programme, subject matter advisor for the MNSI programme, flight doctor for Capital Air Ambulance and Clinical Advisor to the Lia’s Wings Air Ambulance Charity for children.

Clare joined the core network team in 2025, as clinical lead for NCL. Prior to this she was LNU representative for the ODN. She is the neonatal Clinical Lead for the NCL ICB/LMNS and Co-Chair for the Startwell Clinical Reference Group
She is a consultant neonatologist at Barnet Hospital, having trained in neonatal units across London. She has longstanding management experience, as the Barnet Clinical Service lead for 12 years prior to becoming the The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Group neonatal Clinical Director in 2026.
Clare has significant experience in newborn resuscitation training. She is an NLS course director and ARNI instructor. She has sat on the UK Resus Council working party for NLS and ARNI from 2017 to 2026.
She understands the importance of fostering strong collaborative work within the perinatal multidisciplinary team, to ensure the best outcomes for babies and families.

Dr Ellie Atkins is a consultant clinical psychologist and the lead psychologist for the London Neonatal ODN. She is responsible for leading psychological provision, developing and expanding psychological services, supporting the psychological professionals in post and supporting all staff to develop a psychologically-informed skill set.

Ellie has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has been working with babies, children, young people and families for almost 30 years. Her doctoral thesis looked at the experiences of children, young people and parents following an intensive care admission. Most recently, Ellie worked at St George’s NHS foundation trust for many years, offering provision across paediatric and neonatal intensive care units and supporting families when a child died. Ellie is a member of NeoLeaP, the clinical excellence network for neonatal psychological professionals.  She is passionate about developing psychologically informed environments across our neonatal units so that wherever a family is cared for, they, and the staff who work with them, are always met with the same level of thoughtful, compassionate and trauma-informed care.

Moriam has over 15 years of extensive clinical experience in paediatric and neonatal nutrition through the NHS and abroad, and has written for numerous magazines and peer-reviewed journals. Moriam is passionate about neonatal and infant nutrition and hopes to work towards equitable and standardised nutritional care across the London network, in part, through establishing the multidisciplinary London Neonatal Nutrition Group.

Moriam is an active member of the Neonatal Dietitians Interest Group – NDiG (subgroup of the British Dietetics Association – BDA). She is also an executive committee member of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine – BAPM, and the Allied Health & Public Affairs committees of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition – ESPGHAN.

Alexandra Connolly is the ODN SLT Lead for North West London and South London and works clinically as an Advanced Neonatal SLT at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Alexandra’s interests lie in quality improvement and driving positive change within neonatal care settings. She has played a pivotal role in shaping key national documents which have transformed the clinical landscape for Neonatal SLTs.  She is committed to supporting responsive cue based feeding practices and empowering parents, advocating for their active role as partners in their babies’ care.

Brenda Carty is the Joint Lead Neonatal Speech and Language Therapist for London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network. She also works clinically as the Lead Neonatal SLT for Barts health. Brenda has worked for nearly a decade clinically as a Neonatal Speech and Language Therapist across the London network. Brenda has been involved nationally and regionally in projects to improve provision of SLT on neonatal units and workforce development. She has a passion for innovation, equity and early intervention for early feeding and language  practices in the NICU. She is also passionate about earlier family integrated care practices and collaborative provision for babies with complex respiratory needs.

Sarah Neilson is one of the Lead Occupational Therapists for London Neonatal Network. She works across South and North East London sectors. She also works as a clinical specialist OT on the neonatal unit at Evelina London. With 15 years clinical experience working with neonates and their families she is passionate about ensuring families have support from occupational therapy from the beginning of their journey- helping parents adapt to parenting on the neonatal unit, providing early intervention and supporting infant occupations. Being the neonatal OT lead within the London network has enabled Sarah to drive forward change regionally and nationally – growing and developing the neonatal OT workforce and raising the profile of OT. She also sits on the national committee of Royal College of Occupational Therapy.

Jennifer Dean is one of the lead Occupational Therapists (OT) for the London ODN and she also currently works clinically as a neonatal OT in London. She has over 10 years of experience working with medically complex infants, children and their families as an OT and has worked in neonates over the last number of years. She has a special interest in standardizing developmental care practises across London, improving the transition from neonatal to paediatric services and supporting the growing neonatal OT workforce.

Maria qualified as a physiotherapist in 2006 from Nottingham University. She worked for 11 years in a community paediatric physiotherapy team in Gloucestershire, developing skills with a variety of different clinical presentations. This is where Maria’s passion for neonatal physiotherapy began, especially for early intervention strategies for high risk babies and families.
Since 2018, Maria has worked across level 2 and level 3 units in North London. She was successful in becoming part of the London Neonatal ODN in 2022. Maria is passionate about developing the neonatal physiotherapy workforce across London in order to provide high quality and equitable care for babies and families across London.

Anna qualified as a physiotherapist in 2009 and has always had a passion for working with infants and babies so went on to complete an MSc in Advanced Paediatric Physiotherapy at UCL in 2019. Anna specialised as a neonatal physiotherapist in 2016, working within acute tertiary neonatal services as well as research and follow up clinics.

Anna joined the London ODN in 2022 as joint Lead Neonatal Network Physiotherapist. She is also a member of the APCP Neonatal Committee and has contributed to national publications, guidelines and education to support and enhance the neonatal physiotherapy workforce.

Laura is the Lead Care Coordinator for the London Neonatal ODN. Laura trained as a paediatric nurse and initially cared for children in the fields of cardiac and oncology before specialising in neonatal care. Laura’s passion for families and babies is so strong that she has been working in neonatal care for the last 22 year. Laura has worked on both NICU and LNU neonatal units caring for medical, surgical, and complex babies and their families. During her career, Laura has progressed through the nursing roles including senior clinical roles, transport nursing and a Lead Nurse role for a pan regional service. Laura’s current role as Lead Care Coordinator is one of strategic oversight, and leading the ODN Care Co-ordinator team, have a goal of placing families at the fore front of service transformation, collaborating with all healthcare colleagues in achieving excellent standards, and supporting neonatal units with implementation of Family integrated care as a core ethos.

Leah began her neonatal journey 15 years ago. Leah has worked in two busy London Neonatal units and over the course of her career she has solidified her knowledge, skills and experience in various roles; starting as a Staff Nurse caring for extremely preterm and unwell infants to her former role as a Care Pathway Sister and Lead for Transitional Care which consisted of supporting babies with complex needs and their families in their next steps to going home.
Leah has a passion for improving and enabling conditions to achieving equity and equality within Neonatal care.
FiCare is currently being embedded across the North East London sector via various projects including parent support sessions and establishing core groups to sustain the FiCare framework within individual units and as a wider team for the sector.

Anne trained as a General Nurse and a Midwife before finding her niche in neonatal care. She has been awarded a Bachelor of Nursing (Distinction). Anne has worked on a variety of neonatal units both in the UK and Australia and she has developed a keen interest in baby led, family centred and developmentally sensitive care. She is also interested in nurturing the neonatal workforce and working collaboratively across the multi-disciplinary team. These interests have always informed her approach to the clinical, research and education posts that she has held.
The Care Coordinator role is a perfect fit for Anne’s experience and her aspiration to support the implementation of Family Integrated Care.

Louise trained as a paediatric nurse and spent 5 years on a paediatric surgical ward before starting her neonatal career in 1999. Since then Louise has had the privilege of working with families on Level 3 NICUs around the country, caring for extreme premature, surgical and complex needs babies. Louise has been an ITU nurse, a transport nurse, an educator and, before this role, a Neonatal Outreach Nurse, where she supported families preparing for discharge on the Neonatal Unit and then seeing them at home. Through all these roles, her passion for working in partnership with families has been central. Since becoming a Care Coordinator in 2021, hearing family stories has further ignited her passion for Family Integrated Care and ensuring that parent voices are heard to support the development of Neonatal Services.

Lucinda is a paediatric nurse by background but always had a passion for neonates and spent the first 9 years of her NHS career working on a busy surgical and tertiary NICU in London. During this time, Lucinda worked both as a neonatal nurse and sister caring for a large range of complex infants and quickly became passionate about providing both specialist and holistic care to infants and their wider family during the neonatal journey.
Lucinda is passionate about ensuring the continuity of care from neonates into the paediatric wards. Her interests are to ensure that the resources for families and staff conveys the appropriate messaging, language and is inclusive. Lucinda is now working as the ODN Care Coordinator for South West London and is supporting; Epsom, St Helier, Croydon, Kingston and St George’s with their exciting FiCare initiatives to enhance and improve family experience.

Ines is a Neonatal Nurse with over fifteen years of experience nationally and internationally in medical & surgical units and community services. She is passionate about nursing education, innovation and quality improvement in healthcare. In 2016, Ines was part of the North West London (NWL) team project, an initiative from Health Education England that aimed to address the workforce challenges in neonatal nursing within the NWL sector. Working with families has always been at the heart of her nursing care. Before joining the ODN in 2021 as the NWL Care Coordinator, Ines was part of an innovative, award-winning project – The Integrated Family Delivered Care Project (IFDC), at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2017. This initiative aimed to work in partnership with parents to create a consistent, nurturing environment where parents felt engaged, enabled, educated and empowered as the primary caregivers to their baby. The IFDC project has changed the culture in neonatal care as it improved premature babies’ health outcomes and enhanced the family experience in the neonatal unit. As part of Ines’s current role, she works in an advisory capacity to support units developing, implementing and sustaining family integrated care practices and to progress with the BFI and BLISS baby charter accreditations.