Kathleen May Reid

​FormerFormer senior medical officer, family planning, North Derbyshire (b 1923; q St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1954; FFFP), died from acute fibrosing alveolitis on 27 November 2005. Figure 1 At 17 Kay joined the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) and saw active service during the second world war. She chaired the Family Planning Association Clinic Doctors' Council when family planning was neither respected nor respectable. In 1974 she was founding chairman of the National Association of Family Planning Doctors with 500 members. In 1978, when she stepped down as chairman, the association had nearly 2000 members. She advocated affiliation with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care being created in 1993. Kay worked until she was 76. She leaves four children and five granddaughters.