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Thank you for joining the live stream of the Chief Midwifery Officer’s National Maternity Research Conference 2023.
This conference is a live streaming/virtual event which is being held as part of the National Maternity Research Programme led by Professor Jane Sandall, Head of Midwifery and Maternity Research at NHS England on Wednesday 8th February 2023.
The event is a celebration of the contribution research has had to maternal health being held between the hours of 10:00 – 13:00 and will include contributions from speakers and chairs from NHS England, Higher Education, Third Sector and Royal Colleges.
10:00 – 13:00 | Wednesday 8 February 2023
10:00 – 10:15 | The vision for research within the Women’s Health Strategy
Prof. Lucy Chapell, Department of Health and Social Care and Guy’s & St Thomas NHSFT
10:15 – 10:30 | Safety and quality in maternity care – the global and national impact of the Lancet Series on Midwifery
Prof. Mary Renfrew, University of Dundee
10:30 – 10:45 | Prevention and management of stillbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Prof. Dame Tina Lavender, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
10:45 – 11:00 | Questions and discussion
11:00 – 11:15 | Break
11:15 – 11:30 | Research career development opportunities for midwives
Prof. Ruth Endacott, NIHR
11:30 – 11:45 | Inequalities in research opportunities
Prof. Gina Awoko Higginbottom, University of Nottingham
11:45 – 12:25 | Round table discussion with midwife researchers across the pathway
Anna Marsh, NIHR Doctoral Fellow, Bournemouth University
Dr Hannah-Rayment Jones, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, King’s College, London
Dr Kerry Evans, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Prof. Sara Kenyon, NIHR Senior Investigator, University of Birmingham
12:25 – 12:35 | Introduction
Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent and Prof. Donald Peebles, NHS England
12:35 – 12:50 | Chief Midwifery Officer National Maternity Research Strategy
Prof. Jane Sandall, NHS England
12:50 – 13:00 | Last words, Next Steps and thanks
Prof. Jane Sandall, NHS England
13:00 | End of live stream
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