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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, Stream C or Stream D on Vimeo please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.

All plenary sessions and seminars in Stream A will play in the live stream player above.

All seminars in Stream B will play live on Vimeo here.

Optional seminars are available below to view on demand.

14:00 | B1 & B2: Promoting and defending midwifery education (60 Mins)
Nicky Clark, former Lead Midwife for Education, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull; Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group

14:00 | C1: Exploring student experiences of raising concerns during pre-registration training in England
Charlotte Phillips, Senior Lecturer, University of Staffordshire

14:00 | D1: Exploring adherence to ICM essential competencies across the five European regions
Chiara Valentini, Midwife, The Rosie Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust

14:35 | C2: Protected learning time – an innovative approach to a learner-led clinical environment
Frances Webster-Benwell, Midwifery Practice Placement Manager, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Eliza Johnson, Midwife and Clinical Educator, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

15:25 | B3: Preceptorship practice development midwives and the role of clinical midwifery educators as a package of support for newly qualified midwives
Adele Lamb, Rebecca Williamson and Niamh Smit, Preceptorship Practice Development Midwives, Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

15:25 | C3: My baby labels: listening to our families at ULTH 
Sandra Pygott, Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate and David Speck, PNA and Neonatal Clinical Education Lead, United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals

16:00 | B4: Better outcomes postnatally for mums: co-production with women experiencing challenges accessing healthcare
Jennifer MacLellan, Qualitative Researcher, University of Oxford

16:00 | D4: Improving epilepsy services in maternity
Naomi Plant, Patient Safety Lead Midwife, United Lincolnshire Teaching

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

Access your Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2024 delegate resources here.

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

09:40 Breaking the taboo – the challenge of birth trauma
Theo Clarke, Founder, Global Birth Trauma Alliance; former MP and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Birth Trauma

10:00 From DNA to delivery and beyond: Making genomics your ally
Jo Hargrave, Lead Midwife, East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA) and Karen Creed, Lead Midwife for Genomics, Central and South GMSA

10:20 TRiM: One year on – embedding trauma awareness in maternity services
Gemma Price, Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

10:40 Audience Q&A

10:55 Break

11:40 Optimising labour and birth for ALL: personalised care = safe care
Professor Soo Downe, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

12:00 The journey to becoming a midwife
Suzanne Crozier, Associate Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

12:20 Audience Q&A

12:35 Announcement of the Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Forum Trailblazers Award Winners

12:50 Break

13:30 Meet the Expert talk: Making the move to digital – maternity resources for universities and trusts
Neil Stewart, Editorial Director, MATFLIX/Maternity & Midwifery Forum

14:00 Parallel Seminars

A1: Midwifery matters at the NMC
Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Practice) Professional Practice Directorate, Nursing & Midwifery Council

B1: Promoting and defending midwifery education (60 Mins)
Nicky Clark, former Lead Midwife for Education, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull; Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group

C1: Exploring student experiences of raising concerns during pre-registration training in England
Charlotte Phillips, Senior Lecturer, University of Staffordshire

D1: Exploring adherence to ICM essential competencies across the five European regions
Chiara Valentini, Midwife, The Rosie Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust

14:35 Parallel Seminars

A2: Setting up in private practice
Dr Denise Tiran, CEO and Education Director, Expectancy

B2: Promoting and defending midwifery education (Continued)
Nicky Clark, former Lead Midwife for Education, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull; Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group

C2: Protected learning time – an innovative approach to a learner-led clinical environment
Frances Webster-Benwell, Midwifery Practice Placement Manager, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Eliza Johnson, Midwife and Clinical Educator, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

D2: Upskilling the MSW workforce – neonatal observations
Robert Moore, Practice Development Midwife with focus on Maternity Care Assistants and Maternity Support Workers; Professional Midwifery Advocate, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

15:05 Break

15:25 Parallel Seminars

A3: Recurrent miscarriage: breaking the silence, transforming care
Jo Killingley, Lead Midwife for Education, Director of Programmes, Middlesex University and Laura Corcoran, Managing Director, Dignity Care Network

B3: Preceptorship practice development midwives and the role of clinical midwifery educators as a package of support for newly qualified midwives
Adele Lamb, Rebecca Williamson and Niamh Smit, Preceptorship Practice Development Midwives, Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

C3: My baby labels: listening to our families at ULTH
Sandra Pygott, Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate and David Speck, PNA and Neonatal Clinical Education Lead, United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals

D3: Working with pain: the paracetamol problem
Samuel Todd, Lead for Professional Practice and A-EQUIP, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

16:00 Parallel Seminars

A4: Immunisation in pregnancy – what, when, why & who?
Greta Hayward, Consultant Midwife – Immunisation & Public Health Programmes Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency

B4: Better outcomes postnatally for mums: co-production with women experiencing challenges access-sing healthcare
Jennifer MacLellan, Qualitative Researcher, University of Oxford

C4: Improving culturally aligned practice in perinatal care
Manisha Sheth, Co-founder & Director, Support ME Maternal Project CIC; Perinatal & Baby Loss Counsellor; Trainer & Consultant in Culturally Aligned Practice

D4: Improving epilepsy services in maternity
Naomi Plant, Patient Safety Lead Midwife, United Lincolnshire Teaching

16.30 Festival closes

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