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Watch live from 09:25 on Tuesday 17 September
SEMINARS
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, C or D – these will open in a new window, Stream A will play on this page.
IMPORTANT: If you are joining Streams B, C or D please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.
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RESOURCES
Speaker presentation slides and other relevant festival documentation are available for delegates to access via the link below.
Access your Wales & South West Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2024 delegate resources here.
AGENDA
09:25 Chair’s opening remarks and welcome
Sue Macdonald, Maternity and Midwifery Festival Programme Curator and Editor, Mayes Midwifery
09:45 The Pool Study – the UK’s largest waterbirth study
Professor Julia Sanders, Professor of Clinical Midwifery, Cardiff University
10:10 From handywoman to professional midwife: Sarah Thomas, a hidden history
Professor Billie Hunter CBE, Emerita Professor, Cardiff University
10:35 Audience Q&A
10:45 Break
11:25 Team working to manage care for women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
Dr Anita Banerjee, Obstetric Physician and Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11:45 The Safe Learning Environment Charter
Lucy Duncombe, Clinical Training and Education Senior Specialist Programmes: Maternity and Neonates, Children and Young People NHS England, Workforce, Training and Education – Southwest
12:05 Audience Q&A
12:20: Announcement of the Wales & South West Maternity & Midwifery Forum Trailblazers Award Winners
12:30 Break
13:30 Parallel Seminars
A1: Midwifery matters at the NMC
Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education), Professional Practice, Nursing & Midwifery Council
B1: Influence the future of research: an update on the RCM Research Prioritisation Project
Jenny Cunningham and Dr Judith Field, Research Advisors, Royal College of Midwives
C1: Management of hyponatraemia in the peripartum period
Faith Worrell, Kristy Hutch and Lisa George, Clinical Supervisors for Midwives, Hywel Dda University Health Board
D1: Health workers’ experiences and factors impacting confidence in providing bereavement care in low-middle income countries
Danielle Jacob, Midwife, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
14:05 Parallel Seminars
A2: Management of Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Dr Melanie Nana, Obstetric Medicine Fellow, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
B2: Implementing (APPEAL) training for midwives to teach pelvic floor muscle exercises during pregnancy to prevent urinary incontinence
Dr Victoria Salmon, Research Fellow in Women’s Health, University of Exeter, Registered Physiotherapist
C2: Miscarriage and baby loss: changing the way that support looks
Bex Gunn & Laura Buckingham, Founders, The Worst Girl Gang Ever
D2: Releasing stress and building emotional resilience
Selina Wilson, Cognitive Behavioural Hypno-therapist, Selina Wilson Therapy
14:35 Break
15:10 Parallel Seminars
A3: Black Maternity Matters – collaboration, courage and compassion
Anne Remmers, Maternal and Neonatal Clinical Lead, Health Innovation West of England and Laura Lewinson, Midwife and EDI Lead, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Trust and Black Maternity Matters Champion
B3: Upper arm difference: helping babies and their families to reach their full potential
Ruth Lester, Retired Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Trustee, Reach Charity
C3: Improving outcomes for women, finances and reducing the carbon footprint: Evaluation of Home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy
Angie Willis, Hazel Ward Manager, Great Western Hospital; Sustainability Clinical Fellow 23/24
D3: GBS testing via GBS3 trial: uptake and associated issues in a large maternity unit
Emma Pugh, Clinical Specialist Research Midwife, University Hospital of Wales
15:45 Parallel Seminars
A4: Immunisation in pregnancy
Greta Hayward, Consultant Midwife, Immunisation & Public Health Programmes, Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency
B4: The Baby Sleep Planner: process evaluation of a UK assessment and planning tool for families with infats at increased risk of sudden and unexpected death in infancy
Karen Patrick, Research Midwife, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS FT
C4: The effectiveness and experiences of community-led child and maternal health interventions: a systematic review in the UK
Rohit Sagoo, PhD Student, Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire
D4: Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis(PAO) in the news: new research and relevance to the Women’s Health Strategy, Birth Trauma & 2024 Maternity Inquiry Report and MEWS
Dr Sarah Hardcastle, Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath and Karen Whitehead MBE, Coordinator, PAO Group UK
16.15 Festival closes
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