{"id":465,"date":"2019-12-15T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2019-12-14-tikgjp10d46siix4un553cdjofyp6f\/"},"modified":"2019-12-15T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:08:00","slug":"2019-12-14-tikgjp10d46siix4un553cdjofyp6f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2019-12-14-tikgjp10d46siix4un553cdjofyp6f\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Founder of DAUK Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden number 10 in a list of influential women in healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were delighted to be asked to contribute to the Women in Healthcare Leadership project. Last week, our immediate past Chair and Co-Founder Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden was number 10 in a list of influential women in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is her interview with the Women in Healthcare Leadership Project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describe your role:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am the Co-Director of The Doctors\u2019 Association UK, an ICU and HEMs Registrar, and Mummy to toddler Joshua\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is your greatest achievement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJoshua was born prematurely at 27 weeks and had a turbulent 3 month stay in NICU. He is now a wonderfully cheeky 2 year old. Joshua has cerebral palsy, but he is as stubborn and determined as his Mummy, and he doesn\u2019t let his disability hold him back. He is what (who!) I\u2019m most proud of. After we brought Joshua home from NICU and whilst on maternity leave I co-founded DAUK. I never dreamed our small team of volunteer doctors would become an influential lobbying group, regularly speaking in Parliament. I love that I am able to fight for the NHS, which saved my son\u2019s life, every single day and I suppose I\u2019m pretty proud of that of that too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would you tell your younger self:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt gets better. I didn\u2019t fit in when I was younger; I suppose I still don\u2019t, but I\u2019ve become ok with that. I wish I could tell my younger self that one day, that chip on your shoulder will become your driving force. To stop worrying so much about what people think. To learn to say \u2018no\u2019. And that those people who try to drag you down aren\u2019t worth your time. I now realise that strong women lift other women up. I try to surround myself with with those amazing people who embody this, and make it my mission to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describe yourself in 3 words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHonest, driven, clumsy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0942.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0942.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0943.png\" alt=\"IMG_0943.png\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to be asked to contribute to the Women in Healthcare Leadership project. Last week, our immediate past Chair and Co-Founder Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden was number 10 in a list of influential women in healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[169,54,170,42,171],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","tag-100-women-in-healthcare-leadership","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-leadership","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-wihl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}