Welcome

Midwifery 2020 - The future of the profession

Keynote address: The Equalities Bill - making equality a reality for expectant mothers and their families

Question and answer

Keynote address: Minding the gap in service provision and user experience

Dame Christine Beasley DBE, Chief Nursing Officer for England
Sue Eardley, Senior Policy Lead for Safeguarding Children, Care Quality Commission
Gary Belfield, Acting Director General of Commissioning and System Management, Department of Health

Keynote address: Delivering progress on the MDGs - International perspectives

Chaired by:
Jacque Gerrard, Director, The Royal College of Midwives UK Board for England

Working with ministers
Dr Mags McGuire, Acting Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government

Chaired by:
Jane Munro, Quality and Audit Development Advisor,
The Royal College of Midwives

Achieving Normal birth: delivering the strategy in Scotland
Ann Holmes, Consultant Midwife and Programme Lead of KCND (Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic), NHS Scotland

Increasing the Momentum: harnessing the Multidisciplinary Team
Helen Shallow, Consultant Midwife & Head of Midwifery,
Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Our Experience of Introducing a VBAC Service
Debbie Garrod, Consultant Midwife in Public Health,
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Introducing waterbirth in a consultant led unit
Lyndsay Durkin, Clinical Lead for Normality, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Chaired by:
Pat Gould, Team Manager for London, The Royal College of Midwives

Payment by Results (HRG4 tariff): are we are coming up to the mark?
Dr Suzanne Tyler, Independent Healthcare Consultant and
Lucy Hubber, Head of Children’s Strategic Planning, NHS Milton Keynes

Examining the feasibility of Digipen use by supervisors of midwives in the Yorkshire and the Humber LSA
Carol Paeglis LSA Midwife, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber and
Julie Green, LSA Midwife, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

Maternity Matters: identifying the needs of women in Camden to meet national policies
Andrea Nove Research Associate, Options UK

87 percent svd rate, 94 percent vaginal delivery rate and 65 percent breastfeeding rate!
Bryony Read and Claire Adams, Young Parent Midwives,
South London Healthcare NHS Trust

Chaired by:
Belinda Ackermann, Member of the Royal College of Midwives Council

Reducing infant mortality
Jane Walker, Consultant Midwife, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust

A new way of working to find out why babies die
Tina Woods and Sara Barr-Frost
Lead Nurse Coordinators for Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood
NHS Central Lancashire

Implementation and continuous audit of a Prolonged Pregnancy Clinic to promote normal birth
Julie Hogg, Maternity Outpatient Services Clinical Lead
University College London NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal mortality; challenges and opportunities for improving care: review perinatal deaths at a local level
Therese Chapman, Consultant Midwife, Public Health
Newham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Chaired by:
Amanda Hutcherson, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

Post-natal care culture and women’s experiences of birth recovery
Julie Wray, Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Health & Social Care Research, University of Salford and The Iolanthe Midwifery Fellow

Midwifery: What is it?
Mandie Scamell, Phd Candidate Midwife, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

"I just wanted to love him and to hold him forever really": three populations groups experience of skin-to-skin contact at birth
Valerie Finigan MBE, Infant Feeding Coordinator,
Pennine Acute NHS Hospitals Trust

‘Informed and uninformed decision making': a meta-synthesis of women's reasoning, experiences and perceptions with regard to advanced maternal age and delayed childbearing
Alison Cooke, Research Midwife, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Manchester

Chaired by:
Claire Cutlan, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

New models from the US - obstetric care bundles: augmentation in labour
Jane Urben, Deputy Head of Midwifery,
Brighton and Sussex University Hospital

Exploring and understanding practitioner decision-making when managing women on STAN
Dr Julie Jomeen, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Hull

The best beginnings m idwives
Vlora Hingley, Specialist Midwife/Team Leader, South London Healthcare NHS Trust

NHS Newborn & Infant Physical Examination Programme (NIPE): how roll out of a national programme is informed by both midwives and parents
Jane Sancho, NIPE Development Manager, NHS Newborn & Infant Physical Examination Programme (NIPE) and
Oonagh Keiths, Mother of a Child with Hip Dysplasia and Member of STEPS

Chaired by:
Gill Walton, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

Leading, energising and mobilising change
Carol Price-Dowd, Research Associate, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Managing change
Professor Cathy Warwick CBE,
General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives

Chaired by:
Kim Russell, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

Achieving normal birth: How we increased the home birth rate in Torbay
Heather Parker, Head of Midwifery, South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

Tweak to transform: simple solutions to normalising birth
Caroline Broome, Midwife, East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust

Re-Audit of evidence based guidelines for midwifery led care in labour (RCM 2005) and an audit of NICE CG 55 Intrapartum Care (2007) regarding Women’s Choice and Control during Childbirth
Eleanor Clewes, Audit Midwife,
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Community Skills Day: enhancing confidence, collaboration and communication
Alison Brown, Consultant Midwife,
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Management and Working Practices
Chaired by:
Lynne Pacanowski, Member of The Royal College of Midwives Council

Getting the best from your workforce: productivity and outputs
Karen Taylor OBE, Director for Health Value for Money, National Audit Office

Lean and maternity services at Airedale
Susan Speak, Head of Lean Improvement, Airedale General Hospital

The caring dimension: stories about choice, dignity and respect in maternity care
Claire Wood, Service Manager, Maternity, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Chaired by:
Gillian Smith, Director, Royal College of Midwives UK Board for Scotland

Caring for vulnerable infants
Prof Mary Renfrew, Director - Mother and Infant Research Unit,
University of York

Horror and disgust: breastfeeding as a survivor of sexual abuse
Kathryn Gutteridge, Consultant Midwife, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Delivering breastfeeding messages to school children
Sue Henry, Infant Feeding Coordinator, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Enhanced breastfeeding support project to improve breastfeeding continuation rates
Sarah McKie, Breastfeeding Specialist Midwife, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Closing Plenary Chair

What women want!

Campaigning on behalf of pregnant women and new mums from disadvantaged groups

Keynote address

Question and answer

Closing address and prize draw