Welcome from Conference Chair:

Driving service transformation

Patient safety: improving outcomes through training

Safer Births programme: a new support network towards service improvement

Keynote address: promoting maternal choice

Question and answer

Chaired by:
Guay Ong, Team Manager, South Central England, The Royal College of Midwives

Employee ownership within the NHS
Jo Ellins, Research Fellow, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

Working differently across health and social care
Martin Bradley, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland

Chaired by:
Maria Brown, Member of the Royal College of Midwives Council

Managing the needs of diverse populations
Comfort Momoh MBE, FGM Consultant / Public Health Specialist and Founder, African Well Woman's Clinic, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport Midwives 4Young Parents
Fiona Blackwell and Jackie Hughes, Specialist Midwives for Young Parents, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Audit of teenage pregnancy outcomes
Anna Sherliker, Midwifery Lecturer, University of Salford

Exploring the maternity experiences of 1st and 2nd generation women of Pakistani origin
Fiona Cross-Sudworth, Research Midwife, Perinatal Institute

Chaired by:
Carole garrick, Member of the Royal College of Midwives Council

The productive ward
Jenny Leggott CBE, Deputy Chief Executive and Director for Nursing and Midwifery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

"No Place Like Home": making homebirth a reality
Julie Richards, Head of Midwifery and Sexual Health, Powys Local Health Board

Leading other midwives: a critical ethnographic inquiry exploring the experience of midwife team leaders
Lesley Kay, Lecturer in Midwifery, Anglia Ruskin University

A reflective journey: developing and leading team midwifery
Kim Housham, Project Coordinator, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Maternity Unit, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chaired by:
Gail Johnson, Education and Professional Development Advisor, The Royal College of Midwives

Challenges for education in times of change
Profesor Diane Fraser, Profesor of Midwifery and Head of Division School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

Development of a multiprofessional critical care course: Scottish Maternity REACTS
Helene Marshall, Director, Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme, NHS Education for Scotland

The student guidance team
Linda Mearns, Student Midwife, Robert Gordon University

Providing multiprofessional maternity education
Helene Marshall, Director, Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme, NHS Education for Scotland

Chaired by:
Dr Kenda Crozier, Research Fellow, The Royal College of Midwives

EURO-Peristat Report: Implications for policy and practice midwifery studies
Dr Simone Buitendijk, Professor Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Professor University Medical Center, Leiden and Head of the Child Health Program Leiden

The birthplace in England research programme
Mary Stewart, Research Midwife, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit

UK epilepsy and pregnancy register
Beth Irwin, Epilepsy Nurse / Midwife, UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register Belfast Trust - Royal Hospitals

Keeping childbirth natural and dynamic: developing a pathway for normal maternity care for Scotland
Lucy Powls, Practice Development Midwife, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

Nicola Gill, Events and Training Manager, NHS Choices

Seminar Sponsored by: NHS Choices

Welcome back from Conference Chair:

Promoting equality of opportunity and tackling discrimination in service provision

MCA roles and new ways of working: how we have maintained the right training and standards in Scotland

Fitness to practise: what are the rules, scope, fears of practise?

Chaired by:
Debbie Gould, Chair, The Royal College of Midwives Council

Chaired by:
Tracey Cooper, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

Centering Pregnancy
Anna Gaudion, Project Lead, Centering Pregnancy and
Katie Yiannouzis, Head of Midwifery,
King’s College Hospital

The experiences of obese women in the maternity services
Dr Christine Furber, Midwifery Lecturer (Teaching) / Research Associate,
The University of Manchester

2gether – Weight Management in Pregnancy Project
Kelly Pierce, Midwifery Manager, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

Designing an intervention to address unmet health needs of obese pregnant women: the views of local service providers and users: Qualitative study
Nina Khazaezadeh, Consultant Midwife, Public Health and
Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Consultant Obstetrician,
Guy’s & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Chaired by:
Helen Rogers,
Board Secretary, The Royal College of Midwives UK Board for Wales

Social Enterprise
Annie Francis, Independent Midwife, Independent Midwives UK

The development of a training needs analysis project to assess core competencies of midwives
Dr Belinda Green, Consultant Midwife, Elisabeth Garret Anderson Maternity Unit, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust

Earlybird group bookings
Kim Tyler, Midwife and Katherine Tadman Community Midwife,
Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Brief interventions for smoking cessation: Midwives Toolkit
Jayne Rowney, Health Improvement Practitioner Specialist, NHS Kirklees

Chaired by:
Gail Johnson, Education and Professional Development Advisor, The Royal College of Midwives

Pre-registration reforms
Professor Paul Lewis, Associate Dean – Midwifery, Rehabilitation & Health Sciences, The School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth University,
RCM Fellow and RCM Council Member

Student midwives’ anxieties related to problem based learning (PBL)
José Hacking, Lecturer / Programme Leader MSc Midwifery, Directorate of Midwifery, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Salford

Case Conference Academy
Janine Wyn Davies, Senior Lecturer, University of Glamorgan

Learning from tragedy
Julie Maddocks, Regional Manager for the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) North West, West Midlands and Wales

Chaired by:
Dr Kenda Crozier, Research Fellow, The Royal College of Midwives

Learning from the PEARLS study
Debra Bick, Professor of Evidence Based Midwifery, King’s College London

The development of labour ward coordinator master classes
Carol Paeglis LSA Midwife, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber and Julie Green, LSA Midwife, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

The Midwifery Practice Audit: a dynamic tool for promoting normal birth, changing practice and reducing caesarean section rates
Sarah Gregson, Consultant Midwife,
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

A Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HELP) group: the findings of a preliminary study to reduce obesity
Karen Jewell, Consultant Midwife, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust