2010 Programme

Registration

Chair’s opening remarks

Key recommendations from Midwifery 2020

• An overview of Midwifery 2020
• A broad outline of the five key work streams:
  
• Core Role of the Midwife
• Education and Career Progression
• Measuring Quality 
• Public Health Role of the Midwife 
• Workforce and Workload 
• What impact will the programme have on maternity services in the future?
• Benchmarking and implementing Midwifery 2020 across the United Kingdom
  

Understanding what safeguarding children means for maternity services

• Safeguarding children: The new agenda and its impact on maternity services
• Integrated processes and early intervention
• Information-sharing and inter-agency working
  

Question and answer session

Morning refreshments

Assessing tariff frameworks for accurate recording and reporting

• Engaging the workforce to gather and report accurate and timely information
• Developing and applying tariffs for community midwifery
• Utilising local antenatal and postnatal benchmarking to aid national tariffs
• Ensuring your information systems are recording home births to ensure accurate payment
  

Working with PCTs to understand how to improve commissioning locally

• Understanding the commissioning framework and what midwives need to do to help commissioners
• Building strong relationships and educating partners to develop a common understanding of what world class maternity services look like
• Overcoming regional disparities: Embedding effective commissioning and ensuring rural areas receive the same quality of care
• Meeting demand in maternity services through alternative support: Working with third sector and private sector
  

Question and answer session

Lunch

Improving quality of maternity care: A user perspective

• Why we have to change the way we think about women’s views of care
• Women’s perceptions of aspects of quality: Safety, effectiveness and experience of care
• Local strategies and practices to improve quality of maternity care from a woman’s point of view
• Monitoring improvements in quality

CASE STUDY – Embedding Quality and Productivity into maternity services locally

• Engaging stakeholders in a new approach to building a sustainable workforce
• Building a workforce around service needs and clinically effective models of care
• Challenging the assumptions of professional roles

Question and answer session

Afternoon refreshments

Supporting midwives to improve patient experience

• Using technology and online support to enhance patient experience and improve productivity
• Where can midwives access online guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS?
• Collecting data to provide evidence for future commissioning

Panel Discussion: Compliance monitoring in NHS Trusts

• How has legislation change impacted commissioning in relation to CQUIN and QIPP?
• Analysing how legislation and regulation impacts on staff, services and users of the service at a local level
• Understanding the impact of compliance monitoring on women’s experience of maternity service
• Exploring the benefits of registering with compliance conditions
  

Question and answer session

Chair’s closing remarks and close of conference