Dr Anna Byrom

Commencing her midwifery career over 25 years ago, Anna has worked in a variety of roles across midwifery services, education, and research, throughout the UK. She has practice experience of caseload, continuity models of care, providing midwifery care in all areas of clinical practice and leading infant feeding services in community and hospital settings.  

Anna completed her PhD, in 2019, with the Maternal, Parental and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) at the University of Central Lancashire, England. Her thesis explored the influences of the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative upon midwives and service-users.  

Passionate about supporting authentic, relational and social midwifery education she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, in 2019, from Advance HE, acknowledging her extensive contributions to midwifery education since 2010.  

Anna is the publisher of The Practising Midwife, Australia Edition and The Student Midwife journals and founding Director/CEO of the award winning All4Maternity.com supporting the learning, sharing and caring needs for all midwives and maternity workers. She works with global, national, regional and local teams to support Internationally Educated Midwives with their transition to practice across NHS England and has been Principal Investigator on a number of midwifery education and clinical practice research projects including: Sustaining Midwifery Continuity of Carer in Practice, Collaborative Learning in Practice and Student Midwife Continuity of Carer placement learning.