Liz Wilkes, Chief Midwife Officer

As a young girl, Liz Wilkes didn’t like the sight of blood, so when she told her parents she wanted to be a midwife, they ‘never imagined in a million years it could happen’. But the girlfrom Taree, on the NSW mid north coast, followed her dream and pursued a career in midwifery.  That career has taken Liz from the Hunter Valley to London and now Queensland, where she became Queensland Health’s first Chief Midwife Officer in 2024. In this episode of ‘Interviews from the Frontline’, we talk to Liz about her almost 30-year career as a midwife and her priorities in the top job.