The Scotland Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2018 takes place on Wednesday 28th November 2018 at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
We are expecting around 400 midwives and healthcare professionals to join us on the day, but if you are unable to attend in person you can watch a live stream of the event on this page.
Our live broadcast will begin at 09:15 on the 28th November.
LIVE STREAM:
CHAT:
Join the discussion on Twitter by following the hashtag #midwiferyforum.
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
09:15 Chair’s welcome
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Consultant
09:30 Best Start: delivering for the future
Professor Ann Holmes, Chief Midwifery Advisor, Associate Chief Nurse, Scottish Government
09:50 Baby Buddy: embracing the power of evidence, innovation and collaboration to reduce child health inequalities
Alison Baum OBE, Chief Executive, Best Beginnings
10:20 Same as it ever was?
Mary Ross-Davie, Country Director for Scotland, The Royal College of Midwives
10:45 Assessing the quality of care you give
Dr Andrew Symon, Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee
11:00 Questions & discussion
11:15 Break
12:00 Aspiring student to student midwife
Ellie Durant, Midwife and author
12:35 Becoming and being a teacher of midwives
Fiona Gibb, Senior Midwifery Lecturer and Lead Midwife for Education, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Robert Gordon University
13:00 Break
14:00 SCOTLAND MATERNITY & MIDWIFERY FESTIVAL AWARDS PRESENTATION
14:30 Becoming a Consultant Midwife
Dr Geraldine Butcher, Consultant Midwife, NHS Ayrshire and Arran
15:05 Developing and introducing a new model of clinical supervision in Scotland
Helene Marshall and Susan Key, Education Project Managers, NHS Education for Scotland
15:30 Break
15:50 Best Start Remote and Rural Maternal Competencies Survey
Helene Marshall and Jaki Lambert, NHS Education for Scotland
16:20 Listening to the baby’s voice: infant mental health in practice
Dr Melanie Gunning, Clinical Psychologist, NHS Lothian
16:45 End of broadcast