Consultants

Qualifications

MBBS DCH MRCP (UK) PGCert (Med Ed) FRCPCH

Specialist Interests

Neonatal safety, service standards, ethnicity and equality

Biography

Ngozi Edi-Osagie was appointed as a consultant neonatologist in 2002. She is the National Clinical Director for Neonatal care for NHS England with responsibility for promoting high-quality and safe care for babies and their families and supporting the Government’s objective of reducing stillbirths, neonatal deaths, brain injuries, and pre-term births.

She has broad clinical and leadership experience, having been a clinical lead, a clinical director, and a Clinical head of division of clinical services. She was a Group Associate Medical Director at MFT for 8 years overseeing support for doctors requiring professional support. She was a GMC performance assessor for over 10 years.

She was clinical lead for the development of a single hospital service across the city of Manchester overseeing the merge of 10 hospitals and community services into a single trust. She is involved in external investigations and peer review of neonatal services. She was the officer for Genomics at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2022 – 2024.

She is the neonatal representative on the Maternity and Neonatal group of the NHS Race and Health Observatory and is the medical adviser for the Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN).

She chairs the Neonatal Critical care CRG and co-chairs NHSE Neonatal Delivery Board and the Maternity and Neonatal Equity and Equality steering group. She is President of the Section of Paediatrics at the Manchester Medical Society.