Dr Felicity Plaat

Dr Felicity Plaat
Co-opted member of Council, Clinical Quality Advisor

Qualifications

FRCA

Term of office on Council as Elected Council Member

March 2019- March 2025

Term of office on Council as Co-Opted Council Member

October 2025- Present

Hospital

Queen Charlotte's and Hammersmith Hospitals, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust

Biography

Dr Felicity Plaat qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in London after a degree in Social and political sciences from Cambridge University. She trained in anaesthesia in London and was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist at Imperial College NHS Trust based at Queen Charlotte’s & Hammersmith Hospitals in 1997. Her specialist areas are obstetric anaesthesia, medicolegal and ethical aspects of anaesthesia. Felicity is involved with multidisciplinary team-based training in the UK,  in resource poor countries and conflict zones. She is currently co-chair of SALG, chair of the RCoA Ethics Committee and Editor in chief of GPAS.

Felicity is a past Membership Secretary of the Association of Anaesthetists and a past President of the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia

Register of Interests

  • Medicolegal work
  • President, Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association (2017–2020)
  • Anaesthetic Assessor, MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (a national maternal mortality audit)
  • Member of editorial board/reviewer for the International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia
  • Medical Advisory Panel Member, Baby Lifeline (charity)
  • Member of the working party of MOET (ALSG obstetric life support and trauma course)