Dr Felicity Plaat

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)