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At various points during the festival you have a choice different parallel seminar streams to participate in.

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STREAM A: Available to view via the main live stream above.

STREAM B: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

STREAM C: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

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09.50 Chair’s opening remarks
Sue Macdonald, Maternity and Midwifery Festival Programme Curator and Editor, Mayes Midwifery

10.10 Being, surviving, and thriving in midwifery
Dr Sally Pezaro, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Coventry University

10.30 Postnatal care
Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Adviser, NCT

10.50 Audience Q&A

11:05 Break

11:45 Parallel Seminars

A1: Positive role modelling, midwifery leadership
Verena Wallace MBE, Senior Midwifery Adviser (Policy), Professional Practice Directorate, The Nursing and Midwifery Council

B1: Neonatal herpes: A bereaved parent’s experience and the vital role of midwives in keeping babies safe
Sarah de Malplaquet, Chief Executive, Kit Tarka Foundation

C1: Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy – are you up to date?
Dr Caroline Ovadia, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Obstetrician, King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

12:15 Parallel Seminars

A2: Black and ethnic minority midwives’ perceptions of workplace culture
Jaspreet Garcha, International Midwife Practice Educator and Deputy Postnatal Ward Manager, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

B2: What’s the point of guidelines if no-one is using them? How to make yours easy to find and use
Liz James, Senior Project Manager, Leicester Maternity Services, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

C2: Research collaboration: reflections of women experts by experience in the Champion Study
Helen Howlett, Senior Midwifery Lecturer, Northumbria University

12:45 Parallel Seminars

A3: The importance of memory making
Zoey Linton, Service Manager – Memory Boxes, SiMBA Charity

B3: The management of weight during pregnancy: An overview of clinical guidelines
Lucy Goddard, PhD Researcher and Midwife, University of Oxford

C3: Building a safe, secure and sustainable infrastructure within community midwifery
Randeep Kaur, Clinical Lead Midwife – Transformation and Shelly Colley, Community Matron, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

13:15  Break

14:15 Parallel Seminars

A4: Pregnancy and motherhood in prisons
Maria Garcia de Frutos, Midwifery Lecturer, City, University of London; Jade Hammond, Strategy and Campaigns, Level Up and ‘Suzy’

B4: Adisa & Antonio: reducing bias in midwifery education
Olamide Solanke, Assistant Lecturer and Samuel Todd, Lecturer in Midwifery, Birmingham City University

C4: Digital midwives harnessing the power of technology at UHCW
Nikki McNulty, Digital Matron, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

14:45 Parallel Seminars

Workshop A4 Continued

B5: Am I allowed a home birth? A resource for student midwives
Samuel Todd, Lecturer in Midwifery, Birmingham City University

C5: Adaption of A:EQUIP in academia: optimising student midwives’ wellbeing
Natasha Carr, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University

15:15 Break

15.45 Midwifery – is there a future for us?
Dr Kathryn Guttridge, Consultant Midwife and Psychotherapist

16.10 Announcement of competition winners, photo montage, closing remarks
Sue Macdonald, Festival Chair

16.20 Festival closes

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