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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 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)

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

Access your Northern Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2022 delegate resources here.

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

10.00 Keynote address: How do the building Blocks for MCoC align with the fundamentals of safe staffing?
Professor Trixie McCaree, National Lead for Continuity of Carer, NHS England/Improvement

10.20 Personalised homebirth services – how we’ve made it work for us
Sara Hollins, Director of Midwifery and Laura Hughes, Home Birth Team Leader, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (currently featuring in BBC 2 programme, Yorkshire Midwives on Call)

10.50 Audience Q&A

11:05 Break

11:45 Parallel Seminars

A1: Beyond the EU Directive
Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education), NMC

B1: The importance of memory making
Zoey Linton, Service Manager – Memory Boxes and Lisa Hague, SiMBA Ambassador, SiMBA Charity

12:15 Parallel Seminars

A2: Equipping yourself for resuscitation of the newborn
Professor Joanne Foster, Assistant Professor in Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

B2: Contemporary Postnatal Care
Professor Helen Cheyne, Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport at the University of Stirling

12:45 Parallel Seminars

A3: Principles into practice: resuscitation of the newborn
Professor Joanne Foster, Assistant Professor in Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

B3: Who cares about postnatal care?
Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Adviser, NCT

13:15  Break

14:15 Parallel Seminars

A4: Cancer and pregnancy awareness: seeing the symptoms
Pete Wallroth, Chief Executive and Founder, Mummy’s Star

B4: Refugees, support and care (1 hour)
Rose McCarthy and Wan Abdullah, NCT & Yorkshire and Humber Maternity Stream of Sanctuary

14:45 Parallel Seminars

A5: Nurturing maternity staff
Dr Jan Smith, Chartered Psychologist and Director, Healthy You Ltd

B5: Refugees, support and care (Continued)
Rose McCarthy and Wan Abdullah, NCT & Yorkshire and Humber Maternity Stream of Sanctuary

15:15 Break

15.45 Supporting women and families fleeing at time of crisis
Wendy Warrington (Wanda), Safeguarding Families Specialist Practitioner, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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

16.20 Festival closes

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