Expert Witness – Miss Chandrima Biswas
Consultant Obstetrician

Miss Biswas is happy to be instructed by both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

Miss Biswas graduated from the University of London in 1992 with MBBS. Since then, she has gone on to gain invaluable experience as an Obstetrician, joining the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a member in 1999, and gaining Fellowship in 2021. She has held many senior positions throughout her career. Miss Biswas has also obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Patient Safety (with distinction) from the University of Oxford. In 2021 Currently, Miss Biswas holds the position of Consultant Obstetrician and Fetal Monitoring Lead at the Whittington Health NHS Trust. She is also a Regional Clinical Advisor as part of the MNSI (previously HSIB) programme, which has investigated nearly all term intrapartum stillbirths, neonatal deaths within the first week of life, and direct and indirect maternal deaths in England since 2018. Since 2022 Miss Biswas has also been the Lead Obstetrician for Perinatal Quality at the North Central London Integrated Care Board.

As part of her role as Consultant Obstetrician, Miss Biswas specialises in highrisk and intrapartum obstetric care, and as part of her role as a Regional Clinical Advisor for MNSI, she investigates intrapartum stillbirths, neonatal deaths within the first week of life, and direct and indirect maternal deaths.

Throughout her career, Miss Biswas has held multiple leadership positions at the Whittington Health NHS Trust, including Obstetric Service Lead (2012-2015),
Clinical Director for Women’s Health (2015-2018), and most recently Fetal Monitoring Lead Obstetrician (2021-present). During these roles, she has implemented many new service changes including a new outpatient hysteroscopy service; a second obstetric theatre on the Whittington labour ward; and the installation of a centralised CTG monitoring system on the labour ward. More recently, in 2020, Miss Biswas introduced the long-acting oxytocin analogue ‘Carbetocin’ to the Whittington labour ward.

Miss Biswas’s recent research interests include being the local Principle Investigator for several NIHR-funded studies including:
Anode study (Lancet (2019) 393 (10189) 2395-2403)
Phoenix study (Lancet (2019) 394 (10204) 1181-1190)
Parrot 2 study (Lancet (2024) 403 (10427) 619-631
Big baby trial (to be published 2024)

Miss Biswas is well published. Some of her most recent works include:
The Pregnancy Encyclopaedia: All Your Questions Answered. (2016) – Editor in
Chief Dr Chandrima Biswas. Highly commended in the Popular Medicine
category, BMA Medical Book Awards 2017.
Alarm Bells in Medicine: Danger symptoms in Medicine, Surgery and Clinical
Specialties: Ed Dr Nadeem Ali. Chapter: Obstetrics (2005) –Chandrima Biswas,
Christina Cotzias and Philip Steer BMJ Books.
Royal College of Pathologists: College Bulletin No 195 (July 2021) Maternal and
Child Health: Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.

Miss Biswas is a Management of Medical Obstetric and Trauma (mMOET) instructor.