Dr Renate Wendler MD FRCA

Consultant Anaesthetist

St. George’s Hospital

Dr. Renate Wendler is a consultant anaesthetist in obstetric and cardio-thoracic anaesthesia at St. George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust and the lead clinician for high-risk obstetric anaesthesia.

She represented obstetric anaesthesia on the NHS London Maternity Expert Panel, which developed and implemented the first London Maternity Quality Standards. As a member of the Strategic Clinical Leadership Group, Dr. Wendler co-authored the first two reports on Pan-London maternal mortality (“London Maternal Deaths”; 2016 and 2017).

Since 2018 she has been the anaesthetic expert and member of the clinical leadership group for the DoH and NHSI commissioned Shrewsbury and Telford Maternity Services Review and co-author for the Ockenden Report 1 & 2. Dr. Wendler is a scientific reviewer for BJOG and IJOA.