Juliet Rayment
Humanising Care Fellow
After many years carrying out research in the UK maternity services, Juliet was previously a Research Fellow in the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, City, University of London, a freelance research consultant and the Re:Birth Research Fellow at the Royal College of Midwives. She now works in the Research and Evidence team at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Juliet is delighted to have this opportunity to work collaboratively with the Point of Care and the other fellows. She is excited to learn from them, and to work towards finding creative solutions to some longstanding challenges.
Juliet’s project
Nurses and midwives are most commonly referred to the NMC by patients or their families because of failures in care relationships; following experiences of a lack of kindness, compassion or communication. As a regulator, the NMC tends to get involved in care after the event. Juliet aims to use the fellowship to facilitate conversations between members of the public, regulators, and healthcare professionals about what regulators could do to positively influence relationships before they happen and at the point of care.