About Me
Nikki Khan
RGN · RM · BSc Hons · LPC – Midwife, Expert Witness & Clinical Negligence Specialist. Addressing Breach of Duty and Midwifery Standards of Care.
Nikki Khan is one of a very small number of professionals in the UK who has practised concurrently as both a Senior Midwife and within the legal sector – a dual qualification she maintained without a break in service from 1989 until 2024. She continues to update her training for practice as an Expert Midwifery Witness across cases spanning her clinical career.
An overview...
A Career Built Across Two Disciplines
- RGN, 1988 – Southampton General Hospital
- Registered Midwife, 1989 – Southampton General Hospital
- Certificate in Tropical Diseases, 1992
- Senior midwifery posts in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East
- Senior roles at the Portland Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster, and Kingston Hospitals NHS Trust
- BSc Hons Anthropology (2:1), UCL
- CPE and LPC
Expert Witness Practice
- Preparing CPR Part 35-compliant court reports since 2015
- Instructed independently
- Casework covers adults and neonates
- Areas: birth injury, maternity injury, cerebral palsy, perineal injury, wrongful birth
- Addresses liability, causation, and standard of care
Publications & Industry Collaboration
- Co-author, My Pregnancy (DK Books, 2011)
- Expert Midwife for Huggies, Infacol, Sudocrem, and Dettol
- Contributor, Government White Paper on Pre-Conceptual Care (Seven Seas Pharmaceuticals)
- Collaborated with the British Coffee Association on caffeine-in-pregnancy research
- Published in The Practising Midwife, December 2011
Speaking & Advocacy
- AVMA Conference speaker (2010) and AVMA Cerebral Palsy Conference (2025)
- Clinical Negligence Seminar, Gough Square Chambers (2012)
- Helped organise the Birth Trauma Association’s 2009 conference on perineal trauma
- Trustee, Aching Arms
- Champion, Make Birth Better