8:30-9:30
Registration & Networking
9:30-10:30
Opening Broadcast Programme
09:30-10:30
Official Opening
Chairs
Dr Sheena Byrom OBE
Director
All4Maternity
Neil Stewart
Editorial Director
Maternity and Midwifery Forum
Welcome
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE
Chief Midwifery Officer for England
Presentations
Elizabeth Iro
Chief Nursing Officer
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Franka Cadee
President
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
10:30-11:30
Seminar Stream A
A1. Innovation & Transformation (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 1
Insights from transforming UK Maternity Services
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE
Chief Midwifery Officer for England
NHS England
Questions & Discussion
A2. Clinical Practice Safety (1hr)
Keynote Presentation
Room: Studio 2
Designing systems that improve safety and dignity in childbirth for every person, everywhere
Dr Neel Shah
MD, MPP, FACOG, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
Director, Delivery Decisions Initiative
Harvard’s Ariadne Labs
Questions & Discussion
A3. Innovation & Transformation
Room: Studio 3
Perinatal Mental Health. Reassurance, Guidance & Self-identification
Lisa Hammond
Co-Director
More Than A Tick Box
Teyluva Midwives – tackling health inequalities in the gypsy traveller community
Angela Bellamy
Consultant Midwife
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
Amy Keates
Midwife
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
Nicki Burnett
Vice Chair
Kernow Maternity Voices Partnership
A4. Education
Room: Studio 4
A1 Midwives as CEOs: why midwives need to become business savvy in order to take back the midwifery profession
Joanne Parkington
Midwife Entrepreneur and CEO
My Midwife & Me Ltd
11:30-12:00
Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition Viewing
12:00-13:00
Seminar Stream B
B1. Education (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 1
The Framework for Action to Strengthen Midwifery Education for Universal Health Coverage
Frances McConville
Midwifery Adviser
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Questions & Discussion
B3. Clinical Practice
Room: Studio 3
The first freestanding Brazilian Birthcenter: empowering women, midwives to change the culture around birth
Ana Baraldi
Midwife
Luz de Candeeiro Birthcenter, Brazil
B4. Clinical Practice
Room: Studio 4
Web tech for practice change; motivation, meaning & momentum
Hannah Tizard
Midwife
Managing Editor
Student Midwife Journal
Founder
BloodtoBaby.com
Advances in Prenatal Diagnosis
Dr Bryan Beattie MD FRCOG
Consultant in Fetal Medicine
B5. Education (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 5
Education, training and team work – improvement in neonatal resuscitation
David Hutchon BSc (Med Sci)
MB, ChB, FRCOG, Retired Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Questions & Discussion
B2. Innovation & Transformation (1hr)
Sponsored by Best Beginnings
Room: Studio 2
Baby Buddy: a powerful tool to support maternity systems in the UK and beyond
Chair: Shabira Papain
Chief Operating Officer
Best Beginnings
Baby Buddy: a digital innovation that reduces inequalities and can transform maternity care in the UK
Carly Bond
Head of Operations
Best Beginnings
Baby Buddy Cyprus: supporting the educational needs of parents and health professionals
Associate Professor Nicos Middleton
Associate Professor in Health Sciences Research Methodology and Biostatistics
Head of Department of Nursing and Dean of School of Health Sciences
Cyprus University of Technology
Baby Buddy Australia: Supporting the implementation of the Safer Baby Bundle
Professor Adrienne Gordon
Neonatologist
Royal Prince Alfred Newborn Care Sydney
Researcher
University of Sydney
Chief Investigator
Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence, Australia
Questions & Discussion: above speakers plus
Alison Baum OBE
CEO and Founder
Best Beginnings
13:00-14:00
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition Viewing
14:00-15:00
Seminar Stream C
C1. Sustainability (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 1
A gathering storm – fear and worry in the childbearing population
Dr Kathryn Gutteridge
Consultant Midwife
President
Royal College of Midwives
Questions & Discussion
C2. Innovation & Transformation
Room: Studio 2
Architecture and place: home is where its safe – designing environments for childbirth
Dr Nicoletta Setola
Department of Architecture, TESIS Centre, University of Florence, Italy
Designing birth spaces grounded in women’s experiences of giving birth – an architect’s perspective
Dr Sarah Joyce
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Leeds
C3. Education (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 3
Collaborating to improve midwifery education in Eastern Europe: Developing the WHO Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE)
Professor Billie Hunter CBE
RCM Professor of Midwifery
Cardiff University
Grace Thomas
Lead Midwife for Education & Professional Head of Midwifery
School of Healthcare Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University
Questions & Discussion
C4. Research
Room: Studio 4
Labelled high risk: exploring perception of risk during childbirth in women with an increased BMI>35kg/m2
Gail Norris
Midwife for Education
Edinburgh Napier University
Parents’ experiences of children with food
Tisian Lynskey-Wilkie
Founder
Hydrobumps
C5. Clinical Practice
Room: Studio 5
Ensuring choice for a positive birth
Milli Hill
Founder
The Positive Birth Movement
Five Guide: enhancing caesarean section recovery
Janine McKnight-Cowan BEM
Queens Nurse Project Health Visitor
Derbyshire Community Healthcare Services NHS Foundation Trust
“Winner – Community and General Practice Nurse of the Year Award”
15:00-15:30
Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition Viewing
15:30-16:30
Seminar Stream D
D1. Innovation & Transformation (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 1
Maternity – innovation and transformation
Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE
Chair
National Maternity Review
Chair
All Party Health Group
Former UK Minister
Questions & Discussion
D3. Research (1hr)
Leadership & Change
Room: Studio 3
The Lancet Series on Midwifery – what happened next?
Professor Mary Renfrew FRSE
Professor of Mother and Infant Health
University of Dundee
Questions & Discussion
D4. Sustainability
Room: Studio 4
Can understanding resilience in Nigerian midwifery enhance compassionate care? Findings from a study of midwives experiences of workplaceadversity in Tertiary Hospital, North West Nigeria
Halima Musa Abdul
PhD Student
Cardiff Univeristy
Continuity of carer: An exploration of third year student midwives perceptions and views of their readiness to work in a continuity of care model at the point of professional registration
Caitlin Wilson
Consultant Midwife
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust/University of Worcester
D5. Research
Room: Studio 5
Similarities in Mother-Daughter Labour and Birth Characteristics: A two-generation matched cohort study
Dr Mindy Ebrahimoff
Senior Midwife, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Tutor
Lis Maternity Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
The association between demographic data, health literacy, personal factors, staff communication and health beliefs in pregnancy outcome
Wdad Alanazy
Student Midwife, Swansea University
16:45
IME 2019 Reception & Exhibition
19:30
IME 2019 Awards & Dinner
19:30
Host:
Natasha Kaplinsky OBE
Broadcaster
Save the Children Ambassador
Presented by:
Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE
Co-chair of the APHG