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Welcome to the London 2021 Maternity & Midwifery Festival
The first of the 2021 series of 6 UK and Ireland live and online gatherings of midwifery professionals.
The world is a very different place to when we last met in London. COVID-19 has tested health services and the staff who work across the NHS, to the limit. Midwives and their colleagues have had to show tremendous resilience and innovation to continue to meet the needs of pregnant women throughout.
The London 2021 Festival will be a time to reflect on lessons learned but also to spotlight all the other fantastic work that has continued over this period, despite the demands the virus has inflicted.
Conversations around race, racism and ‘unconscious bias’… moving from rhetoric to changing ourselves, our environment and our practice
09:45 -
10:45
Questions from the online audience
10:45 -
11:00
Comfort Break - Meet our Festival Partners and Supporters
11:00 -
11:15
Session 1a - The hepatitis B antenatal screening and selective neonatal immunisation quality improvement project: improving the quality of care of women with hepatitis B in pregnancy and their babies
11:15 -
11:45
SESSION 1b - The Future Midwife Standards: transforming midwifery care for everyone
11:45 -
12:15
Dr Jacqui Williams
Session 1c - Life-long learning: how the Maternity and Midwifery Forum can prepare you for study, promotion and revalidation Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, MATFLIX
12:15 -
12:45
Dr Jenny Hall
Lunch - Meet our Festival Partners and Supporters
12:45 -
13:30
SESSION 3a - Caring for both full term and neonatal babies’ skin
13:30 -
14:00
Margaret Merrigan-Feenan
SESSION 3b - How peer support can help to hear the unheard
14:00 -
14:30
Interval - Meet the Expert
14:30 -
14:45
SESSION 6a - How do NHS midwives facilitate women’s alternative physiological births? A feminist narrative inquiry
14:45 -
15:15
Dr Claire Feeley
SESSION 6b - Love that birth physiology
15:15 -
15:45
Molly O’Brien
Interval - Meet our Festival Partners and Supporters
15:45 -
16:00
Keynote address - MIDWIVES, MATERNITY AND COVID-19
16:00 -
16:30
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE
Closing comments
16:30 -
16:35
Your images and feedback from the day
16:35 -
16:40
LIVE WEBINAR 1
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
SESSION 2a - Midwifery students’ experiences of being bullied whilst on clinical placement in the United Kingdom
11:15 -
11:45
Tanya Capper
SESSION 2b - A lot more anxious and a lot more lonely” vs “more empowered”: centred birth hypnobirthing classes and preparing for birth during Covid-19
11:45 -
12:15
Dr Alys Einion-Waller
SESSION 2c - Case study: Acupressure for induction of labour
12:15 -
12:45
Loredana Zordan
SESSION 4a - Childbirth Choices Matter: self employed midwives and autonomy in birth choices
13:30 -
14:00
SESSION 4b - Burnt out to brilliant – helping midwives reclaim their sparkle
14:00 -
14:30
Radha Wilson Jeffries
SESSION 7a - Meet The Author
14:45 -
15:15
Leah Hazard
SESSION 7b - Embracing evidence, innovation and collaboration to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes
15:15 -
15:45
Alison Baum
LIVE WEBINAR 2
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
SESSION 5a - Long-term consequences of traumatic birth experiences for midwives
13:30 -
14:00
Sonia Minooee
SESSION 5b - What influences waterbirth rates? A case study exploration of three obstetric and three midwifery units
14:00 -
14:30
Dr Sarah Milosevic
MEET THE EXPERT
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
Meet the Expert - Dr Sheena Byrom OBE from The Practising Midwife
Sue Macdonald
Midwifery Consultant and Educationalist at Mayes Midwifery
Maria Booker
Programmes Director at Birthrights
Benash Nazmeen
Specialist Cultural Liaison Midwife at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Illiyin Morrison
Midwife, Hypnobirthing Teacher and Mum and Founder at Mixing up Motherhood
Dr Sheena Byrom OBE
Director at All4Maternity
Pat Schan
Programme Clinical Advisor at NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, PHE Screening
David Green
Nurse Consultant for Immunisations at NHS Public Health England
Tanya Capper
Registered Midwife, Head of Course – Bachelor of Midwifery (Graduate Entry), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences, H at CQUniversity, Australia
Dr Jenny Hall
Editor, Boxset editor at MATFLIX
Loredana Zordan
Midwife Acupuncturist at
Dr Jacqui Williams
Senior Midwifery Education Advisor at Nursing and Midwifery Council
Dr Alys Einion-Waller
Associate Professor of Midwifery at Swansea University
Margaret Merrigan-Feenan
Antenatal Educator and Family Planning Counsellor at Clinical Midwife Manager
Sonia Minooee
Midwife at University of Technology, Sydney
Shelley McBride
Derby Community Parent Programme Community Coordinator at RippleZ CIC
Emma Roberts
RippleZ CIC at Derby Community Parent Programme 1-1 Coordinator
Radha Wilson Jeffries
Midwife and Emotional Health Coach at Radha Wilson Jeffries
Dr Sarah Milosevic
Research Associate at Cardiff University
Celia Suppiah
CEO at Parents 1st UK
Dr Claire Feeley
Postdoctoral Researcher, Midwife, Educator at University of Central Lancashire
Leah Hazard
Midwife/Author/Host of Podcast at
Molly O’Brien
Midwife, Associate Lecturer at Creator and Teacher of ‘Biomechanics for Birth’ courses for birth professionals and associates and a birth preparation class cal
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE
Chief Midwifery Officer at NHS England
Kay King
Executive Director & Campaign Manager at White Ribbon Alliance UK and Childbirth Choices Matter