Steve Fouch, from the Christian Medical Fellowship, was commenting on Premier's News Hour after ethical approval was granted for a clinical trial following the success of the procedure in Sweden.
The trial is expected to start in spring 2016.
Steve Fouch told Premier's News Hour that this decision has not been rushed: "The first one of these transplants happened in about 2000, 2002.
"The first babies were only born in the last 12 months, so you can see it's taken over a decade to get to the point where they feel it's safe to actually go ahead with trials in this country."
Thousands of women in the UK have no womb or a womb that would not be able to carry a baby.
Some women are born with a syndrome that means their womb never developed as it should and some women can lose their wombs to cervical cancer.
Mr Fouch said that we did not yet know the full risks or consequences of this operation: "The ten women that will have the chance to have this operation in the UK are only a small slither of those who actually might want to have that kind of an operation and have the chance to have a child this way, so it's going to be a long time before we have a picture of what the consequences might be."
He added that this was a complex surgery: "It's a big operation and it will involve the woman having immuno-suppressive drugs throughout the time that she has this womb - and it won't be a permanent transplant because of that.
"We'll have to wait and see the outcome of what these trials are."
Listen to Premier's Antony Bushfield interview Steve Fouch here:
