Watch live from 09:30 on Tuesday 16th May 2023

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

Please use the links below to access these seminars at the appropriate time, check the agenda for full details of all parallel seminars. If you are joining Stream B or Stream C on Zoom please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.

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

STREAM B: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

STREAM C: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

Speaker presentation slides and other relevant festival documentation are available for delegates to access via the link below.

Access your Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2023 delegate resources here.

09:30 Chair’s opening remarks and welcome
Sue Macdonald, Maternity and Midwifery Festival Programme Curator and Editor, Mayes Midwifery

09:45 Nurturing students and midwives: links, leadership and opportunities
Wendy Olayiwola, National Maternity Lead for Equality, NHS England

10:10 Flourishing against the odds
Kate Greenstock, Midwife and Author

10:35 Audience Q&A

10:45 Break

11:25 The birth of an innovative 4-year undergraduate Master in Science Midwifery with Leadership programme: the challenges and successes of nurturing future midwife leaders
Professor Jayne Marshall, Professor of Midwifery/Lead Midwife for Education, University of Leicester

11:45 Safety netting in midwifery
Dr Diane Menage, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, De Montfort University

12:05 Audience Q&A

12:20: Announcement of the Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Forum Trailblazers Award Winners

12:30 Break

13:30 Parallel Seminars

A1: Immunisation awareness: protecting pregnant women and babies
Lesley McFarlane, Lead Immunisation Nurse Specialist, Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency

B1: WORKSHOP: Strategies and Tools for Flourishing: an experiential workshop*
Dr Anna Byrom, Creative Director, All4Maternity
Aaron Turner, Founder and Senior Partner, ONE THOUGHT

*Please note this is a hands on, interactive session and as such is only available for in person delegates, and is not being streamed for the online audience.

C1: Why be an independent prescriber in midwifery?
Dr Helen McIntyre, Associate Professor, Programme and BFI Lead, University of Leicester

14:05 Parallel Seminars

A2: How is digital unlocking new potentials for Maternity?
Michael Watts, Founder and CEO and Caroline Lacy, Midwife and Co-Founder, Blum Health

B2: WORKSHOP: Strategies and Tools for Flourishing: an experiential workshop – Continued from previous session

C2: WORKPLACE CULTURE SYMPOSIUM: Improving workplace culture through a staff engagement programme
Brigid English, People Partner, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Changing workplace culture and Liz James, Senior Project Manager, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Changing workplace culture
Helen Elliott-Mainwaring, Midwifery Lecturer/PhD Fellow, University of Leicester

14:35 Break

15:10 Parallel Seminars

A3: Birth reflections service at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Jackie Allatson and Sharon Raper, Midwives, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

B3: Midwives’ work matters – The role of the Sexual Assault Examiner
Karen Smith, Forensic Examiner Care and Custody, Juniper Lodge Sexual Assault Referral Centre

C3: STUDENT FAST FOCUS

1. Introducing doulas on the Labour Ward: their effect on women’s birth experience
Jessica Wood, Student Midwife, University of Leicester

2. Becoming the midwife I have in my head
Judith Jackson, PhD Research Student, Canterbury Christchurch University

3. BFI University Education Standards (UNICEF 2002) enable positive changes in midwifery students’ reported attitude when supporting mothers with infant feeding – 3 year case study
Dr Helen McIntyre, Associate Professor, Programme and BFI lead, University of Leicester

4. Aspiring to be a midwifery leader – the reflections (and challenges) of a Black student midwife
Selena Palmer, Student Midwife, University of Leicester

15:45  Parallel Seminars

A4: Pregnancy in Mind – a perinatal mental health service
Tori Joel, Development Manager/Midwife and Sandra Garthwaite, Midlands Team Leader, NSPCC

B4: The impact of MDT working between student midwives and Student ODPs to improve immediate skin to skin contact rates in maternity theatres
Sarah Milnes, Midwifery Lecturer, University of Leicester

C4: STUDENT FAST FOCUS – Continued from previous session

16.15 Festival closes

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