Kate Wimble – Maternity and Neonatal Digital Transformation Lead, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

For generations, maternity care ran on paper. Notes passed between hands, records stored in folders, information scattered across systems that couldn’t speak to each other. Kate Wimble is changing that, one digital transformation at a time.

As Maternity and Neonatal Digital Transformation Lead at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Kate leads the programmes shifting maternity services into a connected, data-driven future. Her most significant recent achievement is leading the transition from paper-based maternity records to the K2 maternity information system, a change that is already reshaping how staff deliver care and how women and families experience it.

“This is about much more than digitising notes,” says Kate. “It’s about creating better access to information, improving the quality of our data, and helping us identify opportunities to continually improve the care we provide.”

For women and families, the shift means maternity care that is more transparent, more personalised, and more joined-up. Rather than relying on paper records that can be incomplete or inaccessible, families can now engage more actively with their own care information. For clinical and operational teams, better data means better decisions, and a clearer picture of where care can be continuously improved.

Kate works in close partnership with clinical, operational, and technical colleagues, ensuring that digital change is never imposed from above but designed with the people who will use it every day. Her approach reflects a wider truth about successful digital transformation in the NHS: technology only works when it serves people.

“What excites me most is what this means for women and families,” she says. “Helping to make maternity care more seamless and personalised, that’s what drives me.”