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Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway
27 Nov 2009
The Royal College of Midwives Annual Conference. Held in central Manchester
This event brought together those working in midwifery and with mothers and babies to learn about, debate and discuss the key challenges and opportunities midwives face as a profession.
RCM Workplace Representatives' Conference
Student Midwives conference
Programme
Day 1 - 26 Nov 2009
What's on now:
10:00
Jenni Murray OBE, Broadcaster, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
Welcome from Conference Chair:
10:10
Dr Peter Lachman, Consultant for Service Redesign and Transformation, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital
Driving service transformation
10:20
Professor Tim Draycott, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Women’s Health, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Patient safety: improving outcomes through training
10:40
Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, The King’s Fund
Safer Births programme: a new support network towards service improvement
Biography: Niall Dickson
10:55
Questions and discussion: Session 1
11:10
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Keynote address: promoting maternal choice
Biography: Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP
11:25
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Question and answer
Biography: Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP
11:30
Refreshments and exhibition
12:00
Organisational Leadership Masterclass
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
12:00
Practice and Innovation
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
12:00
Management and Working Practices
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
12:00
Education
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
12:00
Research and Development
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
13:00
Buffet Lunch and exhibition
13:30
Lunchtime Seminar NHS Choices Pregnancy Planner: an interactive service to help women plan their pregnancy
Nicola Gill, Events and Training Manager, NHS Choices
Seminar Sponsored by: NHS Choices
14:20
Jenni Murray OBE, Broadcaster, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
Welcome back from Conference Chair:
14:25
Denise Linay, RCN Lead on Equality and Diversity
Promoting equality of opportunity and tackling discrimination in service provision
14:40
Monica Thompson, Programme Director, Midwifery & Women's Health, NHS Education for Scotland
MCA roles and new ways of working: how we have maintained the right training and standards in Scotland
14:55
Carol Paeglis, LSA Midwife, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
Fitness to practise: what are the rules, scope, fears of practise?
15:05
Questions and discussion: Session 3
15:30
Refreshments and exhibition
16:00
Motions for debate: have your say
Chaired by:
Debbie Gould, Chair, The Royal College of Midwives Council
16:00
Practice and Innovation
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
16:00
Management and Working Practices
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
16:00
Education
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
16:00
Research and Development
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
Day 2 - 27 Nov 2009
08:00
Fringe breakfast seminars
09:30
Debby Gould, Chair, The Royal College of Midwives Council
Welcome
09:35
Noreen Kent, UK Programme Director, Midwifery 2020
Midwifery 2020 - The future of the profession
09:45
Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Keynote address: The Equalities Bill - making equality a reality for expectant mothers and their families
Biography: Trevor Phillips
10:00
Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Question and answer
10:05
Gary Belfield, Acting Director General of Commissioning and System Management, Department of Health
Keynote address: Minding the gap in service provision and user experience
Biography: Gary Belfield
10:20
Gary Belfield Questions and answer
10:25
Improving quality of services: In conversation with...
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
10:45
Refreshments and exhibition
11:15
Sarah Brown, Patron, The White Ribbon Alliance for Safer Motherhood
Keynote address: Delivering progress on the MDGs - International perspectives
11:45
Political Leadership Masterclass
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
11:50
Normal Birth
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
11:50
Management and Working Practices
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
11:50
Innovation
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
11:50
Research and Development
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
12:50
Buffet lunch and exhibition
13:50
Innovation
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
Document coming soon
13:50
Change Leadership Masterclass
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
13:50
Normal Birth
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
13:50
Management and Working Practices
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
13:50
Research and Development
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
15:00
Refreshments and exhibition
15:20
Frances Day-Stirk, Director of Learning Research and Practice Development, The Royal College of Midwives and Vice-President of the International Confederation of Midwives
Closing Plenary Chair
15:25
15:45
Rosalind Bragg, Director, Maternity Action
Campaigning on behalf of pregnant women and new mums from disadvantaged groups
16:00
Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health
Keynote address
16:20
Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health
Question and answer
16:25
Professor Cathy Warwick CBE, General Secretary, The Royal College of Midwives
Closing address and prize draw
16:35
Close of Conference
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