To celebrate International Day of the Midwife on Tuesday 5th May, Maternity & Midwifery Forum presents a full day of international video highlights and live streamed interviews and discussions with maternity leaders.
Join us for the live stream from 10am on Tuesday 5th May here.
Maternity & Midwifery Forum will be celebrating the International Day of the Midwife with a whole day of programmes running from 10:00 – 20:30, with top presentations from past Maternity & Midwifery Festivals, reflections and studio discussions from maternity leaders and input from across the world
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Speakers include:
- Jess Phillips MP, Shadow Minister (Home Office)
- Roy Lilley, Health Policy Analyst, Writer and Broadcaster
- Professor Lesley Page CBE, Visiting Professor, King’s College London
- Karen Jewell, Nursing Officer for Maternity and Early Years, Office of the CNO Wales
- Professor Soo Downe OBE, Professor of Community Health and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire
- Professor Mary J Renfrew BSc RN RM PhD FRSE, Professor of Mother and Infant Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee;
Order of play:
10.00 Live discussion: Looking to the future
Video message from Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer, England
Roy Lilley, Health Policy Analyst, Writer and Broadcaster (confirmed)
10.30 Guest talk: Domestic violence in pregnancy – the midwife’s role
Jess Phillips MP, Shadow Minister (Home Office)
Dr Anita Byrne, Midwifery Programmes Director / Midwife Lecturer, Dundalk College of Technology, Ireland
Sue Macdonald, Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery; Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals
11.00 Live discussion: COVID-19
Professor Mary Renfrew BSc RN RM PhD FRSE, Professor of Mother and Infant Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee
11.30 Video highlights
Insights from transforming UK maternity Services (IME 19)
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer, England
12.15 Live discussion: Leadership
Professor Lesley Page CBE, Visiting Professor, King’s College London
Professor Soo Downe OBE, Professor of Community Health and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire
13.00: The Practising Midwife Live Studio
Dr Anna Byrom and & guests
Hannah Tizzard, Blood to Baby
Dr Claire Feeley, Editor
13.30 International video highlights
Midwifery: a global update – what this means for normal labour and birth
Fran McConville, Midwifery Advisor, World Health Organisation
Growing a family with dignity
Dr Neel Shah, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA
14.30 Live discussion: Women’s Choices: Waterbirth and COVID-19
Dianne Garland, Midwifery Consultant and author
15.00 Video highlights: Midwifery practice & the revised RCOG guidelines on Group B Strep
Jane Plumb MBE, Chief Executive, Group B Strep Support
15.30 Live discussion: GBSS update
Jane Plumb MBE, Chief Executive, Group B Strep Support
Lynsey White
16.00 Video highlights
Breastfeeding as a public health issue…who really decides how we feed our babies?
Professor Amy Brown, Professor of Child Public Health, Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences, Swansea University
Seeding baby’s microbiome – how baby’s bacterial start can change their life
Bridget Supple, Founder, You Baby’s Biome
17.00 Guests & interviews: (Inter)national focus
Video message: Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer, England
Karen Jewell, Nursing Officer for Maternity and Early Years, Office of the CNO Wales
Amy Hargreaves, Professional Officer, NSW Nurses and Midwives Association, Australia
17.30 Video highlights
Norwegian manual perineum protection technique
Hana Kleprlikova, Midwife, Croydon University Hospital; Charles University, Prague
Midwife-led physical activity classes during pregnancy
Abigail Holmes, Consultant Midwife, Cardiff and Vale UHB
18.00 Guests & interviews: Maternity and Midwifery Forum Advisory Panel Ask the experts
Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, MATFLIX
Dianne Garland, Midwifery Consultant and Author
Judy Evans, RM RN, RCN Midwifery Committee member
Sue Macdonald, Co-author, Mayes Midwifery, Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals
Professor Amy Brown, Professor of Child Public Health, Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences, Swansea University
18.45 Video highlights Normal birth: changing the conversation
Professor Soo Downe OBE, Professor in Midwifery Studies, University of Central Lancashire
Dr Sheena Byrom OBE, Consultant Midwife/Director, All4Maternity
19.45 – 20.30 Video highlights Stillbirth: Death By another name
David Monteith, Actor, Director, Stillbirth Activist and Founder, Grace in Action