Donna Kirwan is the national midwifery lead for genomics at NHS England with over 35 years’ nursing and midwifery experience. Most of Donna’s midwifery career has been based in Fetal Medicine as a specialist midwife and coordinator, where she also trained as a sonographer and developed the first ever midwife-amniocentesis practitioner role, providing continuity of care for women with a higher chance screening result. Strategic positions working at regional and national level then followed. For seven years she worked in Public Health as a Regional Antenatal Screening Coordinator for the Northwest of England, then followed a six year stint with the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (NHS FASP) working as a National Midwifery Projects Officer. Among the many national projects she led, an instrumental development was the ‘NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme 18+0 to 20+6 Weeks Fetal Anomaly Scan Standards and Guidance for England’(2010). For a short period, Donna worked freelance taking on different projects, for the then Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). She then returned to the NHS as a Recruitment Practitioner for the 100,000 Genomes Project, based in clinical genetics, recruiting families with rare genetic conditions and gynae cancers. During her career, Donna has maintained a focus in pregnancy and women’s health and taken opportunities to learn and nurture other colleagues as well. As well as her own academic advancement, she’s been involved with national and international research studies and presented at national and international conferences. After winning a travel award, she undertook a sabbatical to America spending time in the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) to observe fetal surgery. She authored several articles ad book chapters, one of which, ‘Genetics and Genomics’ was launched in the 16th edition of ‘Maye’s Midwifery this summer.