Mr Impey qualified in medicine MBBS in 1998, MRCOG in 1992, and was awarded the FRCOG in 2007. His medical training has been in Oxford, London and in Dublin, where he was Assistant Master at the National Maternity Hospital. He is on the both the specialist register of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and as a subspecialist in fetal and maternal medicine. He was educated at Oxford University, and went to clinical medical school at University College in London.
He is the author of the leading medical student textbook in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, now co-authored with Tim Child in its fourth edition (2012). This book won the Society of Authors/ Royal Society of Medicine Asher prize in 1999. He is also co-senior editor of the Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
He has published many scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, mostly in the areas of labour, breech presentation and the origins of childhood handicap. He has also contributed chapters to a number of books including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and written National Guidelines on the management of breech babies.
In 2003, with the help of his colleagues he was responsible for funding and building Oxford's Feto-Maternal Medicine Unit on Level 6 of the Women's Centre of the John Radcliffe Hospital. This houses new Fetal Medicine Unit, for which he is the lead, and also the Silver Star Unit, for complex maternal problems.
Mr Impey is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and a member of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the British Maternal Fetal Medicine Society and the Royal Society of Medicine.
Mr Impey is director of the prestigious subspecialty training programme in fetal and maternal medicine in Oxford. This is responsible for the highly specialised training of obstetricians in high risk pregnancy and ultrasound. He also lectures regularly to students of Oxford University where he is a honorary senior lecturer, and also nationally and internationally.
Within the NHS, Mr Impey specialises in complex pregnancy, particularly for women with multiple pregnancies, those at risk of preterm delivery, and those where the baby is sick or potentially sick. He also runs a weekly consultant antenatal clinic, has regular Delivery ward sessions and runs the breech and external cephalic version (ECV) service. In private practice Mr Impey is particularly interested in ensuring that labour is normal but safe.
