The Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2025 takes place on Tuesday 20 May online and in-person at the Trent Conference Centre, Nottingham.
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Midwifery is often described as being in a state of flux, reflecting the dynamic nature of the profession, which requires ongoing adaptation in education, practice, and regulatory frameworks to ensure quality and safe care for women and newborns.
This is more true now than ever, with a new government promising a 10 year plan for the NHS whose Secretary of State has highlighted maternity services as an area of vital concern and for change. Maternity Units being marked inadequate by the CQC.
How will it be fixed? How can you play a role in making maternity services better and safer, how can you build your career in maternity?
Join us at the Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival on the 20 May in Nottingham to discover some of the answers.
Festival Highlights
Newly added to the programme, specifically for midwifery educators, is an hour-long presentation by Nicky Clark, until very recently, the LME at the University of Hull and Chair of the NMCLME Strategic Reference Group, entitled Promoting and defending midwifery education – a must for all lecturers charged with educating the new generations of midwives.
Professor Soo Downe will also be joining the Festival to discuss Optimising labour and birth for ALL: personalised care = safe care.
Plus, just added, Improving culturally aligned practice in perinatal care, with Manisha Sheth, Co-founder & Director, Support ME Maternal Project CIC; Perinatal & Baby Loss Counsellor; Trainer & Consultant in Culturally Aligned Practice.
The festival will also serve as the launchpad for an important new 12-month series conducted in partnership with the NHS Genomic Medicine Service (NHS GMS) around genomics awareness: Personalising Maternity Care with Genomics.
And Theo Clarke will be joining us to talk about her experience of childbirth, the work she is doing with the Birth Trauma Association and her new book, Breaking the taboo – the challenge of birth trauma.
These are just some of the highlights you can enjoy at the forthcoming Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival.
See the full programme here: PROGRAMME – Midlands Maternity and Midwifery Festival 2025.
Join us at the venue for a motivating and invigorating day of everything that’s great about midwifery. Make a day of it. Recharge your batteries and encourage colleagues/students to come along to benefit from the free learning opportunities and resources.