BICS Ockenden webinars June 2021
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
Optimising the approach to fetal monitoring
Ockenden IEA 6 calls for dedicated midwifery and obstetric leads to focus on and champion best practice in fetal wellbeing.
Join us on 17 June to hear from those who have successfully developed the role of these lead clinicians and improved the teaching of fetal monitoring (EFM & IIA) and assessment of competence.
Watch the recording of the webinar https://youtu.be/I5USOJO6sps
23 June 2021, 1900-2030
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
Partnerships with women, birthing people and families
The 2020 Ockenden report has strong emphasis on the involvement of women, birthing people and their families in their care. Immediate and essential action (IEA) 2 states that ‘maternity services must ensure that women and their families are listened to with their voices heard’. In a similar vein, IEA 7 states that ‘all maternity services must ensure the provision to women of accurate and contemporaneous evidence-based information. Women must be enabled to participate equally in all decision-making processes and to make informed choices about their care and those choices must be respected’.
Whilst all would agree with these aspirations, putting them into practice in maternity services, is not without its challenges.
In this webinar we will explore the feasibility of doing this and listen to examples of how maternity services in England and beyond have been able to achieve good practice.
Watch the recording of the webinar
28 June 2021, 1830-2000
17 June 2021, 1900-2030
28 June 2021, 1830-2000
Multidisciplinary team working and training
Join us for the last in our series of webinars looking at best practice in intrapartum care. IEA 3 in the Ockenden report addresses multidisciplinary teamwork and training.
Virtual BICS conference 2020 - #vBICS20
Effective communication to optimise safe birth
Effective communication to optimise safe birth
Effective communication to optimise safe birth
WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR HERE - https://youtu.be/nq2uaqtIBF4
Update on preterm birth
Effective communication to optimise safe birth
Effective communication to optimise safe birth
WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR HERE - https://youtu.be/iZgwgpNHmSo
Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, service users and their allies.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, service users and their allies.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, service users and their allies.
Medicalisation of childbirth
Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, service users and their allies.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, service users and their allies.
WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR HERE -
About BICS
Mission statement
Benefits of membership
Benefits of membership
The British Intrapartum Care Society [BICS] was established in 2018 to promote excellence in intrapartum care.
Our aim is to standardise the care provided to women and babies across the British Isles during labour, ensuring safe practice through shared learning, high quality education and research.
Following the principles of co-producti
The British Intrapartum Care Society [BICS] was established in 2018 to promote excellence in intrapartum care.
Our aim is to standardise the care provided to women and babies across the British Isles during labour, ensuring safe practice through shared learning, high quality education and research.
Following the principles of co-production, working with women and families underpins our philosophy and strategy.
Our national and global network of specialists covering all multi-professional intrapartum disciplines provides a unique discussion forum for the dissemination of ideas, experience, innovation and regional good practice.
Through engagement with national bodies we both inform policy and support our members in the implementation of initiatives dedicated to improving women’s experience of childbirth and promoting personalisation of care.
Benefits of membership
Benefits of membership
Benefits of membership
Membership of the newest Specialist Society of the RCOG
Access to the BICS mailing list
Discount off the annual conference fee
Access to members area of the website [in development]
Opportunity to stand for election for the BICS committee
Opportunity to vote in BICS committee elections
Opportunity to contribute to the shaping of the society
Who can join?
Benefits of membership
Who can join?
Obstetricians, midwives, anaesthetists, neonatologists, neonatal nurses, GPs, Maternity Voices Partnership members, #MatExp members........ Anyone involved & interested in intrapartum care is welcome!
Find out more
How to join the British Intrapartum Care Society
Set up a standing order & complete the membership form. Then email the completed form to membership@bicsoc.org.uk
It's as easy as that!
Recent publications
Lancet Series - Optimising Caesarean Section Use
Lancet Series - Optimising Caesarean Section Use
Lancet Series - Optimising Caesarean Section Use
A three-part Lancet Series on Optimising Caesarean Section Use reviews the global epidemiology and disparities in caesarean section use, as well as the health effects for women and children, and lays out evidence-based interventions and actions to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections.
AFFIRM study results
Lancet Series - Optimising Caesarean Section Use
Lancet Series - Optimising Caesarean Section Use
Can promoting awareness of fetal movements and focusing interventions reduce fetal mortality? A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial (AFFIRM)
"Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful"
"Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful"
"Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful"
Comment on reduced fetal movements from Kate Walker & Jim Thornton
Antenatal corticosteroid therapy and size at birth
"Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful"
"Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful"
In this study, antenatal steroid use was consistently associated with a reduction in birth weight. Efforts need to be made to correctly identify and target women who will deliver preterm.
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