Watch live from 09:30 on Tuesday 28th November 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 Vimeo please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.

STREAM 1: 13:30

A1: The Remain Study – improving retention in midwifery
B1: Exploring perinatal mental health in Scotland: co-producing an animated video with women with lived experience
C1: Let’s Do it! Where next for you?

STREAM 2: 14:00

A2: Holistic care and listening to women
B2: Supporting parents from pregnancy to parenthood: a toolkit for care
C2: Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis: a patient’s perspective

STREAM 3: 15:15

A3: Demystifying birth trauma: sharing personal and professional experiences
B3: Supporting physiology informed maternity care – The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
C3: Testing Inclusive Text Message Based Engagement NHSGGC Maternity and Neonatal Strategy Development

STREAM 4: 15:45

A4: Giving birth as a survivor: lessons for midwives in trauma-informed care
B4: How to communicate with bereaved parents
C4: Scoping review: maternity care experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee women in Scotland (Not available to view online)

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

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

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

09.45 Midwifery in Scotland 2023 – Practice and Education
Jaki Lambert, Director and Fiona Gibb, Director Professional Midwifery, Royal College of Midwives Scotland

10.10 Shaping your own career as a midwife
Leah Hazard, Midwife; Author – Hard Pushed; Host – What the Midwife Said

10.35 Audience Q&A

10:45 Break

11.25 Keynote address
Kate Forbes, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

11.45 The Midwifery Preceptorship Framework for Scotland – what, so what, now what?
Dr Maria Pollard, Deputy Director, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Directorate and Tom McEwan, Head of Programme, NHS Education for Scotland

12.05 Audience Q&A

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

12:30 Break

13:30 Parallel Seminars

A1: The Remain Study – improving retention in midwifery
Gill Moncrieff, Midwife, Chief Scientist Office Research Fellow, University of Stirling

B1: Exploring perinatal mental health in Scotland: co-producing an animated video with women with lived experience
Sara Cumming, Research Fellow/Midwife, University of Dundee

C1: Let’s do it! Where next for you?
Caroline Flint, Retired Midwife, The Birth Centre

14:05 Parallel Seminars

A2: Holistic care and listening to women
Verena Wallace MBE, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Policy), Professional Practice Directorate, NMC

B2: Supporting parents from pregnancy to parenthood: a toolkit for care
Varshali Swadi, Family Support Officer/Professional Engagement Lead

C2: Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis: a patient’s perspective
Dr Kirsten Furley, Patient Advocate and Paediatrician

14:35 Break

15:10 Parallel Seminars

A3: Demystifying birth trauma: sharing personal and professional experiences
Nikki Wilson, Chief Executive, Make Birth Better

B3: Supporting physiology informed maternity care – The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
Jo Dagustun, Volunteer, AIMS

C3: Testing Inclusive Text Message Based Engagement NHSGGC Maternity and Neonatal Strategy Development
Paul Hayes, Patient Experience Public Involvement Manager and Laura Paterson, Project Midwife Continuity of Carer, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

15:45  Parallel Seminars

A4: Giving birth as a survivor: lessons for midwives in trauma-informed care
Dr Justine Leach, Director, Trauma Informed Birth

B4: How to communicate with bereaved parents
Steph Wild, Bereavement Consultant & Relationship Manager, CuddleCot

C4: Scoping review: maternity care experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee women in Scotland
Heba Farajallah, Midwife, Aberdeen Maternity

16.15 Festival closes

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