Watch live from 09:30 on Tuesday 4th July 2023

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13:30

A1: The NMC: supporting communication with women and families

B1: Immunisation awareness: protecting pregnant women and babies

14:05

A2: Growing midwives: innovation and experience of preceptorship programmes

C2: Crucial first measurement

15:10

A3: Researching stories of unknown childbearing: narrative themes and threads

B3: Midwives at the heart of the battle – the creation of a toolkit for midwives about alcohol in pregnancy

C3: It could not have been more different.” Comparing perceptions of hospital-based birth and homebirth in Ireland

15:45

A4: The introduction of a specialist preterm birth midwifery team at Leeds Teaching Hospital

B4: Your voice is heard: Maternity feedback service

C4: The lived experience of ethical dilemmas in conscientious objection to abortion

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

Access your Northern 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 The nuts, bolts and pitfalls of continuity of care for maternity services
Professor Trixie McCaree, National Midwifery Lead for Continuity of Carer, NHS England/Improvement

10:10 Continuity of care – use it or lose it
Dr Jenny Hall, Midwifery Lecturer; Editor, Maternity and Midwifery Forum

10:35 Audience Q&A

10:45 Break

11:25 The Race Matters Initiative at the Royal College of Midwives
Rebecca Sobodu, Race Matters Midwife, The Royal College of Midwives

11:45 Lifelong implications of the Perinatal Period
Elaine Hanzak, Author of ‘Eyes without Sparkle – a journey through postnatal illness’ and ‘Another Twinkle in the Eye – contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness’

12:05 Audience Q&A

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

12:30 Break

13:30 Parallel Seminars

A1: The NMC: supporting communication with women and families
Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education), Nursing and Midwifery Council

B1: Immunisation awareness: protecting pregnant women and babies
David Green, Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency

14:05 Parallel Seminars

A2: Growing midwives: innovation and experience of preceptorship programmes
Nicole Rajan-Brown, newly qualified Midwife and Sarah Dixon, Preceptorship Midwife, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

B2: The PRIMA study: tools for postnatal perineal healing
Claire Lyon, Midwife and Postgraduate Student, Liverpool John Moores University

C2: Crucial first measurement
Caroline Coates, Chief Executive Officer, Harry’s Hydrocephalus Awareness Trust (Harry’s HAT) and Victoria Glover, Broadcast Journalist and Campaigner

14:35 Break

15:10 Parallel Seminars

A3: Researching stories of unknown childbearing: narrative themes and threads
Jane Rooney, Head of Children’s & Women’s Health; Lead Midwife for Education (LME), Edge Hill University

B3: Midwives at the heart of the battle – the creation of a toolkit for midwives about alcohol in pregnancy
Joanna Buckard, Director of Innovation, National FASD

C3: It could not have been more different.” Comparing perceptions of hospital-based birth and homebirth in Ireland
Soma Gregory, Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin

15:45  Parallel Seminars

A4: The introduction of a specialist preterm birth midwifery team at Leeds Teaching Hospital
Lizzie Kilburn and Gemma Miller, Preterm Birth Specialist Midwives, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

B4: Your voice is heard: Maternity feedback service
Ashley Lamb and Cassandra Crayford, Patient Experience Midwives, and Hazel Styles, Midwife, East Kent Hospitals University Trust

C4: The lived experience of ethical dilemmas in conscientious objection to abortion
Jacqueline Richards, Midwife, Liverpool John Moores University

16.15 Festival closes

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