Overview
Fetal & Maternal Assessment Unit (FMAU)
Exeter has around 4000 deliveries per year. The FMAU is proud to work closely as a team with health care assistants, midwives, screening midwives, midwifery sonographers, sonographers and 2 doctors : Helen Liversedge and Myles Taylor. Whilst strictly only a secondary care District General Hospital, it seeks to provide a wide variety of Fetal Medicine services which are more usually provided by tertiary level units. Thus, for example, Helen prides herself in offering expert cardiac ultrasound assessments, whilst Myles enjoys managing complex twin pregnancies. The unit offers some invasive procedures including amniocentesis and CVS. The unit holds fortnightly fetal medicine/neonatal/genetics multidisciplinary meetings where all fetal medicine cases are discussed, helping ensure that mothers benefit from expertise across many disciplines – particularly high quality genetics opinion. The unit is well supported by colleagues across the South West, and enjoys participating fully in the SW Fetal Medicine Network.
Meet the team
Myles Taylor
is a Subspecialist in Fetal & Maternal Medicine. He qualified in Oxford, and did much of his postgraduate training Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital where he researched mono-chorionic twins culminating in the attainment of a PhD. His sub-specialty training, also at Queen Charlotte’s, was supervised by Professor Nicholas Fisk. For many years, Myles has been Chair of the Peninsula Fetal Medicine Network and, when it was established in 2020, co-lead for the South West Specialist Fetal Medicine Network. Myles has published widely in the Obstetric literature. For many years he was the Fetal Medicine representative on the committee of the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society. From 2018-2021 he was President.
Helen Liversedge
is an Associate Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ultrasound. Helen Qualified at Liverpool Medical school, she then went on to become a General Practitioner before retraining in Ultrasound obtaining her RCOG/RCR Advanced training whilst working in Exeter and Bristol St Michaels. Helen is involved in Obstetric screening and is a Peer reviewer for Public Health England on a national level and is part of the local Governance team. Helen is part of the South West and Wales Congenital Cardiac Network as the Fetal Representative.
Antenatal & Newborn Screening Coordinator Midwives
- Louise Swiggs
- Katie Harrison
They can be contacted on 01392 406540/406533, or email rde-tr.ANScreeningCoordinators@nhs.net
Last Updated: 27/02/2023
