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10.00 – 11.15 Building for the future – Under pressure

Chair’s opening remarks
Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, Maternity and Midwifery Forum and MATFLIX and Neil Stewart, Editorial Director, Maternity and Midwifery Forum

Setting the scene
Nicky Clark, Head of Midwifery and Child/Lead Midwife for Education/ Senior Lecturer, University of Hull; Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group

New curriculum for new challenges
Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education) Senior Midwifery Advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council

Panel discussion and questions from the audience

11:15 Break

11.45 – 13.00 Managing student progression – from admissions to PhDs

Chair’s remarks
Professor Jayne Marshall, Foundation Professor of Midwifery / Lead Midwife for Education; Deputy Head of School of Healthcare / School Director of Education, University of Leicester; Visiting Professor: Kingston University/St George’s University of London

Equality and diversity in recruitment and retention of midwifery students
Dr Alison Callwood, Senior Lecturer in Integrated Care (Midwifery) University of Surrey

Student retention challenges, tackling attrition: improving student engagement – building resilience
Sheila Brown, Lecturer in Healthcare Sciences, University of Bangor

Panel discussion and questions from the audience

13.00 Break for Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 Staffing – recruitment, retention, research, restructuring

Chair’s remarks
Nicky Clark, Head of Midwifery and Child/Lead Midwife for Education/Senior Lecturer, University of Hull; Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group

Building research capacity and career paths in teaching and research 
Professor Jane Sandall CBE, NIHR Senior Investigator, Head of Midwifery and Maternity Research, NHS England

Questions from the audience

14.45 – 16.15 Education for the future – what needs to change?

Chair’s remarks
Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, Maternity and Midwifery Forum and MATFLIX

Where next for midwifery education?
Professor Mary Renfrew OBE, Professor Emerita, University of Dundee

Panel discussion:
Dr Vikki Smith, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University Newcastle
Dr Yana Richens OBE, Director of Midwifery, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion and questions from the audience

16.15 Close

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