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Rebecca Percival serves as a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Health, Education and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University, based in Peterborough. Her expertise lies in Nursing and Midwifery, with a focus on addressing health disparities in maternity care and applying quality improvement methodologies to enhance patient safety. With a clinical background spanning Registered General Nursing, Royal Air Force service, and diverse midwifery roles including Labour Ward Coordination and Practice Development, she integrates frontline experience into her academic work.
Her professional qualifications include:
- Registered General Nurse (lapsed)
- Registered Midwife
- MSc in Quality and Patient Safety Improvement
Dr. Percival's research centers on maternity system transformation, investigating how service user and workforce experiences can drive safer care through the National Maternity Transformation Programme. She actively explores complementary therapies in midwifery—particularly for post-dates pregnancies—and the implementation of Midwifery Continuity of Carer models to address health inequities. Her work bridges clinical practice, policy development, and academic inquiry to improve population-level maternity outcomes.
Her publication record from 2014 to 2020 demonstrates consistent focus on evidence-based maternity innovations. Key themes include reducing unnecessary inductions through complementary therapy clinics and establishing safety frameworks via multi-site ethnography. The 2020 BMJ Quality & Safety paper co-developed a seven-feature safety model now informing national maternity unit standards, while earlier work quantified therapy impacts on pregnancy outcomes in low-risk cohorts.
No scientific awards or fellowships were documented in the source material.
She contributes significantly to national maternal health initiatives as a Maternal Death Assessor for MBRRACE-UK and through project leadership in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Maternity and Neonatal System. Her grant-related work centers on implementing National Maternity Transformation Programme requirements, including workforce development and service-user engagement strategies to enhance regional maternity safety.
Dr. Percival collaborates extensively with NHS trusts, policy bodies, and multi-disciplinary research teams—including the Scaling Authorship Group for her 2020 safety framework study. Her current project work involves close partnership with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough maternity services to operationalize transformation goals while addressing systemic health disparities.
