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The NHS Maternity Conference: Improving safety and workforce culture 2023
10:50 am
21 Nov, 2023
Virtual Event: GoTo
The NHS Maternity Conference: Improving safety and workforce culture 2023
10:50 am
21 Nov, 2023
Virtual Event: GoTo
The NHS Maternity Conference: Improving safety and workforce culture 2023
In March 2022 NHS England announced an investment of £127 million for the improvement of maternity services across England, this follows the Ockenden review which outlines the key improvements and essential actions needed to ensure patients and maternity unit staff are being given the support needed.
Funding breakdown:
- £50 million will be provided to Trusts across the country over the next two years to boost staffing numbers in maternity and neonatal services
- £34 million will also be invested in local maternity systems, in culture and leadership development programmes and in supporting staff retention roles.
- £45 million of capital funding will be available to hospitals over the next three years, so that babies will receive the best quality care, in the most appropriate clinical setting
- The new funding also builds upon the £95 million package of support for maternity services in England announced last year to boost maternity workforce numbers
Join us as we open the debate on the national plans to improve maternity services across the health service, this virtual conference will provide a timely platform for NHS Maternity staff to meet up and discuss key challenges and service improvement strategies.
If you are an NHS employee, you automatically qualify for a complimentary delegate pass for the day. Don’t miss out on this interactive meeting and opportunity to listen to key sector experts and get chance to ask any burning questions.
Research sources: NHS England and Improvement, The Ockenden Review, the Better Births review.
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Convenzis events are highly regarded for their ability to drive strategic level change and transformation within the healthcare industry. Our events bring together senior healthcare leaders and decision-makers from across the NHS and wider healthcare sector, with the aim of identifying and implementing innovative approaches to address the most pressing challenges facing the industry today.
The NHS Maternity Conference: Improving safety and workforce culture 2023 Key Subjects
Adjacent to the recent funding announcement, the NHS have developed a strategy which has taken inspiration from the Better Births and Ockenden reviews, the NHS Maternity Transformation Programme leans on Ten national programme work streams including:
- Increasing personalised care
- Supporting local level transformation
- Transforming the workforce
- Sharing data and information
- Harnessing technology
- Transforming Neonatal care
- And sharing good practice
Who will Attend
Consultant/senior Obstetricians
Consultant/Senior Neonatologists
Consultant/Senior Paediatricians
Heads/Directors of Maternity Services
Consultant Midwives
Directors/Heads of Nursing
Heads/Directors of Patient Safety
Heads of Midwifery
Clinical Heads/Directors
Heads/Directors of Performance
Medical Directors
Chief Information Officers
Senior Neonatal Nurses
Consultant Gynaecologists
Heads/Directors of Transformation
Training & Workforce Leads
Matrons
Your Pass Includes....
Your Pass Includes:
- Access to all live keynote presentations and discussion sessions
- Live and interactive best practice sharing
- Meet the supplier opportunities
- Take away content material
- Interactive activities: Polls
- Prize draws
Speakers
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
10:45
Chair Housekeeping
Chair Housekeeping
10:50
The value of maternity staff: Investing in continuous workforce improvements (Confirmed)
Wendy Matthews OBE
Chief Midwife, Director of Nursing, East of England
NHS England
Investment to bolster the maternity workforce in England will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition of making England the safest place in the world to give birth, while also accelerating action to reduce stillbirth by half, maternal mortality, neonatal mortality and serious brain injury by 2025.
11:15
Main Sponsor - Unearthing maternal care needs: A data-driven approach to driving improvements for mothers and babies
Vivien Dolby
Lead Midwife MEaCC Audit
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Deborah Horner
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care / Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Elizabeth Audsley
Quality Improvement Lead
Yorkshire and the Humber Maternity Clinical Network
Mark Pridmore
Head of Strategy and Business Development
Net Solving
Brian Wilkinson
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine / Undergraduate Lead for Critical Care
University of Leeds
Main Sponsor - Net Solving
An initiative in Yorkshire and the Humber is reshaping maternity care to enhance the wellbeing of women during childbirth and influence safer maternity services nationwide.
Hear from the team behind the improvement programme who will provide more insight into:
- A data-led approach: How strategic data collection has revealed insights into common issues faced by women during childbirth.
- Hidden insights: How 90% of women who require enhanced maternal care are initially healthy when they arrive at the delivery suite.
- Reducing patient risk: The process of using the data to create a risk prediction score to inform flexible care models that meet each patient's individual needs.
- The future: How the work in Yorkshire and the Humber is now informing national approaches.
11:40
Presentation - Review of the effectiveness of pay & reward and its impact on midwifery staff retention (Confirmed)
Stella Nwogu
Matron for Maternity inpatients, Triage helpline, ANC, Screening, Infant feeding & Immunisation teams.
Newham University Hospital – Barts Health
This presentation is based on a research study conducted in a maternity unit to review the effectiveness of pay & reward strategies that the leadership utilise in the retention of midwifery staff. The rationale behind this study, the research objectives as well as the literature review and methodology will be discussed. The findings and limitations of the study will be discussed as well as the mech needed recommendations to support leaders in utilising appropriate motivational variables and formulating retention policies.
12:05
Genomics at a Glance In Maternity and Perinatal Care (Confirmed)
Donna Marie Kirwan
National Lead Midwife for Genomics
NHS England – Genomics Unit
In the evolving landscape of maternity care, genomics is providing rapid and enhanced diagnosis in maternity and neonatal services. This presentation delves into the integration of genomics in midwifery practice and the need for close multidisciplinary team working to provide safe and continuous improvement for pregnant women and babies.
12:30
All Things Maternity Workforce Education & Training (Confirmed)
Lisa Jesson
Deputy Lead Midwife – Workforce Training & Education
NHS England
Kerri Eilertsen-Feeney
Lead Midwife – Workforce Training & Education
NHS England
All Things Maternity Workforce Education & Training:
Part 1 of the presentation will provide an overview of:
- The Maternity Workforce Education & Training three phases of quality improvement that includes:
- The development of a Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC) for midwifery students.
- The framework for practice supervisor and practice assessor preparation to support midwifery students.
- Coaching models to support pre-registration midwifery education in clinical practice.
- Improving interprofessional experiences (IPEx) in education and training.
- Student expansion update.
- The Labour Ward Co-ordinator Framework.
Part 2 of the presentation will share information on the:
- Importance of embedding the Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC).
- Sharing some specific elements of the Charter as case study examples.
13:00
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