About us The PROMPT team PROMPT Trustees Helen Crisp Chair of Trustees Helen joined as Trustee for PMF in 2017, having become aware of the charity when she was Assistant Director of Research at the Health Foundation, one of PMF’s funders. Helen is now an independent consultant, working in quality improvement in healthcare (as Crisp QI Ltd). She has over 25 years’ experience of working on national quality improvement programmes, review and evaluation of QI interventions and writing and editing on QI in healthcare. As Chairman, Helen supports PMF’s fundraising and external influencing, as well as working to ensure smooth running of the Trustee meetings and their function to oversee the governance of PMF. Neil Muchatuta PMF Trustee and Anaesthetic Lead cc c c c Neil is the Anaesthetic Lead for PROMPT. He is a consultant anaesthetist at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston, with a specialist interest in obstetrics. He graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London in 1998, and undertook his anaesthetic training in Bristol, with a research fellowship under Professor Michael Paech in Perth, Australia. His publications cover obstetric analgesia and analgesia, and obstetric emergency management and training.Neil holds a master’s degree in public and global health from the University of Manchester, and organises anaesthetic and multi-professional obstetric courses in low resource settings, working alongside Mercy Ships and the Association of Anaesthetists. He has run several national and international courses on anaesthetic and obstetric anaesthetic topics. He also has an interest in expedition medicine, having supported treks in Patagonia, Sahara, Everest Base Camp and others. Hannah Rulton PMF Trustee Hannah and her husband Lee have undertaken various fundraising events including a skydive and pamper evening to support our charity and we are pleased that Hannah is supporting our charity further by becoming a valued Trustee. Please read Hannah's story here. Kerstin Scheel PMF Trustee c c Kerstin is a partner in RWK Goodman solicitors located in Bath and she specialises in cerebral palsy and catastrophic injury cases, with a focus on complex and high value claims. Her main areas of expertise relate to hypoxic birth injury, cord prolapse, meningitis and Group B Strep infection related injuries. Kerstin and RWK Goodman have long been supporters of The PROMPT Maternity Foundation and we are delighted that Kerstin has chosen to support our charity further by becoming a valued Trustee. Andrew Burnette PMF Trustee c c Andrew is a dispute resolution partner at national law firm Burges Salmon LLP based in Bristol. He specialises in professional negligence and product liability matters, but has a broad commercial practice. Andrew took an interest in the work of PMF after he saw PROMPT training in real-life action when his son was born by emergency C-section in 2017. The impact of his hypoxic birth was reduced by the timely intervention of a multi-disciplinary team at Southmead Hospital followed by exceptional care in NICU. He became a Trustee in 2022. Manage Cookie Preferences