The secret pain of childbirth -Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Workshop

Date/time: 27 November 2008 1000-1300

Venue: RCM HQ, London

Fee: Band A

Perinatal loss through miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death is a painful event for women and their families, and one where professionals are crucial in supporting, communicating and caring.

This workshop will enable midwives and other professionals an opportunity to explore, within a safe environment, how best women and their families can be supported surrounding perinatal loss. The needs of professionals will also be considered, providing a practical framework for individuals and maternity services

The secret pain of childbirth - Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Workshop

Date/time: 25 November 2008 1030 - 1330

Venue: RCM Leeds

Fee: Band A

Perinatal loss through miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death is a painful event for women and their families, and one where professionals are crucial in supporting, communicating and caring.

This workshop will enable midwives and other professionals an opportunity to explore, within a safe environment, how best women and their families can be supported surrounding perinatal loss. The needs of professionals will also be considered, providing a practical framework for individuals and maternity services

Leadership courses abound, but this programme is tailor-made for midwives and addresses the leadership development needs midwives themselves have identified. Midwives face particular challenges in their working lives and need the skills and approaches to initiate innovation and new ways of working for the benefit of mothers and their babies.

The courses are residential and are held in good-quality hotel venues, so that you do not need to worry about commuting. It is a quiet and secluded environment which is positive and supportive, so that you can concentrate wholly on getting the most from the experience.

The aim is to help you:

• Understand your own strengths and how to build on them
• Challenge your attitudes and assumptions
• Develop a broader view of health and social care
• Develop your ability to motivate others to change the way they work
• Enhance your personal effectiveness
• Make continuous learning and self-directed development a way of life.

How it benefits your organisation

If you are seeking funding from your organisation or elsewhere, you will need to make the case not only for the benefits that will accrue to you but the benefits to the organisation.

These are likely to be:

• Wider and fuller appreciation of strategic planning and the management of change
• A better understanding of the dynamics of decision-making and resource allocation within the health services
• A more confident approach to effective team- and partnership working
• An improved ability to argue a case and work towards compromise
• A positive approach to innovation and learning from others
• Make continuous learning and self-directed development a way of life.

Heads of midwifery services
Supervisors of midwives
Acting heads of midwifery services
Consultant midwives
Midwifery educationalists
Other experienced midwives who wish to develop their leadership potential

Venue: London, TBA 
Dates:18th, 19th, 20th  November 2008
Cost: £1,650 (inclusive of food and accommodation, exclusive of VAT)

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Venue TBA

Date: 18th, 19th, 20th November  

Jon Baines Tours
15 - 29 November 2008
This study tour, supported by the Royal College of Midwives, looks at Midwifery, Childcare and Women’s Health in South India. Women’s and children’s health care is increasingly a good news story in South India. With many professional links with the UK, and a strong NGO presence at grass roots level, South India makes a fascinating case study for anyone with an interest in midwifery and childcare. This tour takes you to three very different states in South India to give you a top to bottom view, with professional visits ranging fromprestigious big city public hospitals, and well established NGOs, to an orphanage, a college, an Ayurvedic hospital and village community projects and a clinic in rural India. Download brochure (PDF)

Preparing parents for pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting-a contemporary approach -Part 2

Date/time: 13 November 2008 1000-1600

Venue: RCM HQ, London

Fee: Band B

The second workshop will enable midwives to consider how to encourage women to attend classes, to meet the needs of vulnerable groups and to explore some of the practical and legal issues of providing parenting classes both within the NHS and the private sector.

Preparing parents for pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting-a contemporary approach- Part 1

Date/time: 9 October 2008 1000-1600

Venue: RCM HQ, London

Fee: Band B

This first workshop of two will provide midwives with an opportunity to explore different approaches to planning and implementing an appropriate curriculum for parenting skills and education. The range of content of classes, and different presentation approaches will be explored and the challenges of meeting the varying needs of women and their partners considered.

"Breaking the silence"-Domestic Abuse Seminar

Date/time: 25 September 2008 1000-1400

Venue: RCM  Leeds

Fee: Band A

An informative informal discussion approach is used to increase midwives knowledge and understanding of the multi-complex issues surrounding Domestic Abuse. The seminar explores ways that midwives can be responsive to the needs of abused women, and provides a forum for discussion and sharing of experiences and concerns when caring and supporting women. This will enable participants to gain knowledge and understanding of preventative measures that can reduce the risk of abuse and to develop awareness and some skills to enable and encourage couples having a baby on how to manage their emotions and relationship conflict during pregnancy and after birth.

"Breaking the silence"-Domestic Abuse Seminar

Date/time: 18 September 2008 1000-1400

Venue: RCM HQ, London

Fee: Band A

An informative informal discussion approach is used to increase midwives knowledge and understanding of the multi-complex issues surrounding Domestic Abuse. The seminar explores ways that midwives can be responsive to the needs of abused women, and provides a forum for discussion and sharing of experiences and concerns when caring and supporting women. This will enable participants to gain knowledge and understanding of preventative measures that can reduce the risk of abuse and to develop awareness and some skills to enable and encourage couples having a baby on how to manage their emotions and relationship conflict during pregnancy and after birth.

 This is the latest in the King's Fund's Maternity Safety in Practice Seminar Series.

To view a full programme please click here.

Please call Sushma Sangyam on 020 7307 2479 with any questions, or to book a place.

This two-day programme is designed to help you find out more about your strengths and weaknesses in a constructive, supported environment. It could be a useful precursor to the three-day leadership programme. The results belong to you and nobody else.

You undertake ten separate assessments covering all aspects of the head of midwifery role. You will receive a detailed report from these assessments and a one-to-one feedback session with an external coach who can help you work out the implications of the feedback report.

To get the most from the two days, you will need to do about three hours' preparation before you attend. Afterwards you need to commit to a date to discuss the results.

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Venue: TBA

Dates: 9th and 10th September

Alternative Therapies Taster Day

Date/time: 10 July 2008 1000-1600

Venue: RCM HQ, London

Fee: Band B

Increasingly, women are seeking alternative approaches to health and well-being and they are particularly interested in maintaining health and well-being during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

 During the day midwives will have the opportunity to hear from experts about how their particular specialty may benefit women. The therapies presented will include Acupuncture, homeopathy, reflexology, aromatherapy and moxibustion.

(RCM/RCN/VSO/MSF Collaborative Conference)
This collaborative event aims to provide a platform for all stakeholders, planners, providers and users of health care to debate and discuss global trends on provision of health care.  It is designed to give registered practitioners an opportunity to explore the options around gaining experience of health care provision in developing countries. 

Delegates will: 

«      Gain knowledge and understanding of the role of major NGO charities in mobilising health care provision 

«      Be exposed to the realities of experiences of health care workers during emergencies (conflict, floods, earthquakes) 

«      Have an opportunity to network with providers of health care overseas 

«      Have an opportunity to discuss their future career plans or intentions to work overseas 

«      Gain a better understanding of the needs of diverse populations and groups

Venue: Royal College of Nursing
20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN

THIS DAY COUNTS TOWARDS YOUR PREP REQUIREMENTS

Delegate fee: Registered practitioners: £50.00, Students: £25.00
(Includes VAT, lunch and refreshments)                                 

For further information or a booking form, please contact uk.events@london.msf.org   The booking form is also available to download on all our websites.

History of midwifery seminar series
Edinburgh, 6th June 2008

Midwifery texts – institutional sources for the practice of midwifery (1850-1939)

'Mind you take care of it': protecting the unborn child in early nineteenth-century Scotland  

Dr Alison Nuttall, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh and Dr Anne Cameron, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow

Dangerous Motherhood: Maternity and Madness in Victorian England

Professor Hilary Marland, Professor of History, Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine University of Warwick

Venue: 
School of Health, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place

2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.  

For further details please contact Professor Rosemary Mander, School of Health, University of Edinburgh

Email: R.Mander@ed.ac.uk  Tel: 0131 650 3896  

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust

A free pre-seminar tour of the

Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 

6th June 2008 

Meet  at the College Reception, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW – opposite the Festival Theatre - at 11.00am.

The tour will last about 90 minutes.

For further details, or to record interest (numbers are limited to 40) please contact Alison Nuttall at alison_m_nuttall@hotmail.com or a.nuttall@ed.ac.uk 
Mobile: 07840 103910

Shoulder Dystocia - Avoidable or Fact of Life?

ERB'S PALSY GROUP INFORMATION DAY

FRIDAY 6th June 2008

The Techno Centre, Coventry University, Puma Way, Coventry, CV1 2TT

Fife Sands (Stillbirth and neonatal death charity) is inviting RCM members to join their study day on Thursday 5th June at St Brycedale Centre, Kirkcaldy.

Led by Judith Schott, co-author of Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby: Guidelines for Professionals

Other speakers will include:

Dr Margaret Evans, Neonatal Pathologist

Julie Key, Bereavement Support Midwife

Daryl Mallis, Bereavement Support Midwife

The study day will start at 9.30am and will finish at 4.30pm. The cost for the day is £10 per person.

For more details please contact Christine Birrell on christinebirrell@nhs.net or fife-sands@tiscali.co.uk

Fife Sands (Stillbirth and neonatal death charity) is inviting health professionals to attend their workshop on Wednesday 4th June at St Brycedale Centre, Kirkcaldy.

Led by Judith Schott, co-author of Pregnancy Loss and Death of a Baby: Guidelines for Professionals

The day will start at 9.30am and will finish at 4.30pm. The cost for the workshop is £10 per person.

For more details please contact Christine Birrell on christinebirrell@nhs.net or fife-sands@tiscali.co.uk

The Royal College of Midwives UK Board for Scotland is delighted to invite members from Lothian, Borders and Fife areas to attend a Professional Discussion Forum on Wednesday 21st May at their office, 37 Frederick Street, Edinburgh.

The PDF is entitled 'Politics and Culture in Maternity Services' and speakers confirmed for the day are:

Dr Margaret McGuire, Nursing Officer Women and Children, Scottish Government

Stuart Bonar, Public Affairs Officer, Royal College of Midwives

A Professional Discussion Forum (PDF) is an exciting opportunity for Royal College of Midwives members to meet together to discuss and debate current issues in midwifery. The PDF is organised regionally, links directly into the RCM and is free of charge. It is therefore a crucial conduit for members to access information, and feed in issues of concern directly to members of RCM staff. This dynamic forum will then enable a proactive approach to new and emerging policies, and to the development of practice. Because of the regional nature of these forums, you will not only be able to meet midwives from your own unit, but also midwives from other units and spheres of practice, and this forum therefore provides a unique and valuable source of support and networking opportunities.

The day will start at 12.30pm for lunch and will finish approx 4pm.  

If you would like to attend please contact Angela MacMorran, Administrative Assistant on 0131 225 1633 or by email on angela.macmorran@rcm.org.uk