Dr Amanda Freeman

Amanda is a recently retired Consultant Paediatrician having worked for 22 years at a big busy District General Hospital in Portsmouth before moving to a more senior leadership position at Southampton Children’s Hospital.

She set up one of the first district-based children’s epilepsy services in England and has always been passionate about delivering high quality patient centred care. She became a founder member, then chair of the Wessex Paediatric Neurosciences Network undertaking patient safety and quality improvement projects to ensure excellence and equity of care across the region.

Amanda has a long-standing interest in medical ethics, having been chair of her Hospital’s Clinical Ethics Committee for 5 years and has also trained as a mediator.