Ms Kenga Sivarajah

Ms Kenga Sivarajah is an expert consultant obstetrician who sees patients in several clinics across London. Her specialities include high-risk pregnancies, caesareans procedures, pre-conception care, childbirth, antenatal care, and pregnancy counselling.

Upon graduating from Imperial College London in 2008, she undertook foundational training at Oxford before completing additional qualifications in perinatal mental health at Boehringer Ingelheim. She began specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology in North East Thames in 2010, doing advanced training in obstetric medicine, advanced antenatal practice, and advanced labour ward. Since 2018, she has overseen the labour ward, led perinatal mental health initiatives and intrapartum care, and managed the cardiology, respiratory and liver pregnancy service at King's College Hospital (KCH).

Ms Sivarajah prioritises joint obstetric and psychiatric services for her patients with severe mental health conditions, collaborating with perinatal healthcare professionals and multidisciplinary teams to make important decisions for complex cases. She encourages thorough counselling and planning at the preconception stage to ensure holistic mental care. 

Additionally, Ms Sivarajah has medicolegal insight, having completed the Capsticks diploma in risk and claims management and has offered her expert medical opinion in over 250 cases. She contributes to patient safety efforts for the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) for maternity risk incidents at KCH, using her extensive experience to analyse safety incidents in the maternity unit. She is passionate about enabling women to make informed decisions about their care – and for those who are not able to do so, she has an in-depth understanding of the legal framework applicable to them, having worked on 10 such cases for her involvement she was awarded a King’s Star award. Currently, she is part of a working group that is formulating a framework for assessing mental capacity in patients.