The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

Series 18 - Episode 4: An update on the work of NHS Resolution’s Early Notification schemeThe Early Notification (EN) Scheme is a key initiative towards achieving the delivery of safer maternity care, providing a more rapid, caring response to families in cases of severe harm and supporting a learning culture.This session will explore the NHS Resolution’s Early Notification (EN) scheme and share learning and resources that are useful for clinical practice.The scheme proactively investigates specific brain injuries at birth for the purposes of determining if negligence has caused the harm. We then aim to investigate the claim sooner to provide earlier resolution for families. The EN team have published two key learning reports and you will have an opportunity to hear more about the reports and the work of the scheme during the presentation.Hosted by:Sue MacdonaldContributions from:Annette Anderson – Head of Early Notification Clinical TeamLynn Tilley – Early Notification Regional Lead (London)Kelly Inglis – National Midwifery Clinical FellowElizabeth Pells – Midwife and Early Notification Family Liaison and Mediation Lead

Series 18 - Episode 2: What matters: Maternity services for neurodivergent women during pregnancyBeing neurodiverse can present significant challenges to women entering maternity services and meeting the needs of women who have been identified as neurodiverse, or are yet to be, is important in ensuring appropriate and compassionate care during their pregnancy and childbirth journey.In this session we look at work being carried out by Lisa Allan, specialist midwife in Glasgow and Greater Clyde and Maureen McDowall, part of the What Matters to You (WMTY) support team who have co-developed a tool to support and develop maternity services for neurodivergent women during pregnancy.The work focuses on understanding women from a WMTY perspective using a caring and kind approach guided by the 3 main principles of the WMTY: asking, listening, and doing what matters. This allows a space for a What Matters to You discussion to help understand what is important to the person who is using maternity services and how staff can work together with the women to deliver the service that’s right for them in their birthing journey.Hosted by:Sue MacdonaldContributions from:Lisa Allan, Specialist Midwife in Perinatal Mental Health, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.Maureen MacDowall, Project Officer, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Issues around labour and birth and the development of maternal infant attachment and bonding has been an area of interest to parents and also to midwives in supporting parents in their journey to parenthood.In this session, we are joined by author and midwife, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, who will be discussing her graphic guide for parents, which midwives may also find helpful in expanding parents’ feeling of preparation and access to information.We then move the focus to mothers' individual birth experiences and the early development of mother-infant bonding which have long been of interest to parents and to midwives. We are joined by psychologist, researcher and educator, Dr Carmen Power, who will be talking about the impacts of physiological and psychological aspects of labour and birth on the mother's mental health, her baby's early behaviour and early communications between baby and mother, providing some key areas that the midwife can develop to support the process of bonding.Hosted by:Sue MacdonaldContributions from:Dr Carmen Power, Psychologist writer, researcher, educator and consultantLaura Godfrey-Isaacs, Artist, Midwife, Writer & Creative Producer

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Series 17 - Episode 9: Educating Future MidwivesThis week’s episode will feature two key presentations from the Midwifery Education Conference that took place earlier in the day at De Montfort University.Nicky, former LME at the University of Hull and now a freelance Educationalist, will set out the challenges ahead and Angela will give an insight into the role of new technology in teaching.Chair:Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes MidwiferyTrouble Ahead – Midwifery Education OverviewNicky Clark, Freelance Midwife EducationalistImproving Patient Safety in Maternity Through Immersive Simulation TechnologyAngela Ayuk, Fetal Wellbeing Lead Midwife, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNicky ClarkNicky Clark is the Chair of the NMC Lead Midwife for Education Strategic reference group, which is an active stakeholder group for midwifery education across the UK.She qualified as a registered general nurse in 1982 and as a midwife in 1986 and has been in midwifery education since 1990 working in several institutions. Nicky has been the Lead Midwife for Education at the University of Hull since 2008. She has undertaken many national and international external collaborations, working in the UK and across Europe and Asia providing expert advice on programme approvals in midwifery, and also undertaking institutional quality assurance reviews across the UK and Croatia. She is a NMC quality assurance visitor and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Nicky has been, and continues to be, actively involved at a strategic level in national developments within midwifery.Nicky is extremely passionate about midwifery and is totally committed to ensuring quality and excellence in the education of all those who experience it.Angela AyukAngela is a strong professional with a demonstrated history of working in maternity care, clinical research and the charity retail industry. Skilled in Midwifery, project management, and research delivery.. Graduated from Oxford Brookes University.