page_title: Frances Ivens
hierarchical_section_title: Frances Ivens
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Frances Ivens. Wellcome Images Keywords: Frances Ivens
context_page_description: Mary Hannah Frances Ivens CBE FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
context_section_description: Mary Hannah Frances Ivens (1870 – 6 February 1944) CBE FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
caption: Ivens as chief medical officer at Royaumont
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