Welcome to British Intrapartum Care Society Obstetrics!

Plenary 1 (South Hall)

08.30 Breakfast / Coffee

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome, and Opening Address – Dr Susie Crowe - BICS President 

09.15 - 09.40 Justine Craig, Chief Midwifery Officer for Scotland

WORKSHOPS (St Leonard’s Hall / South Hall) 

For workshops A & B, choose 2 of the following to attend:

    Escalating care in PPH: challenges and how to overcome them - Dr Amy Elsmore and Helen Millward [St Leonard's 1st floor - Pollock]

    Implementing an escalation toolkit - Susie Crowe and Vicki Cochrane [St Leonard's - St Trinneans]

    Birth choices and care out with guidance - Priya Patel [South Hall]

    BSOTS update - Sara Kenyon and Nina Johns [St Leonard's - Nelson]

09.45 – 10.45 Workshop A - go to the room shown above for your 1st allocated workshop

10.45 – 11.15  Coffee (South Hall)

11.15 – 12.15  Workshop B - go to the room shown above for your 2nd allocated workshop

WORKSHOPS PART 2  (St Leonard’s Hall / South Hall) 

For workshops C & D, choose 2 of the following to attend:

    Intrapartum research - Sara Kenyon / Andrew Weeks [St Leonard's - St Trinneans]

    Bereavement care update - Ellie Bard / Bethany Atkins [South Hall]

    Responding to trauma - Frances Hills [St Leonard's 1st floor - Pollock]

    Supportive conversations - Amanda Gotch [St Leonard's - Nelson]

12.15 – 13.15 Workshop C - go to the room shown above for your 1st allocated workshop

13.15 – 14.00 LUNCH (South Hall)

14.00 – 15.00 Workshop D - go to the room shown above for your 2nd allocated workshop

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee (South Hall)

Oral Presentations (South Hall) 

15.15 – 15.25 Helen Smith. Factors affecting the delivery of safe care in midwifery units: a national learning report from MNSI. (MNSI)

15.25 – 15.35 Elizabeth Salway. Umbilical Cord Management During Neonatal Resuscitation Within NHS Policy and Practice: A Systematic Literature Review and Prospective Analysis by MNSI. (MNSI).

15.35 – 15.45 Sreelakshmi Mohan. Improving maternity care for asylum-seeking pregnant women and people. (East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Margate).

Plenary 2- Reducing birth trauma (South Hall)

Chair: Susie Crowe

1545-1555  Service user’s lived experience

1555-1615  How can we reduce birth trauma? Lorraine Farrow. 

1615- 1635  The SuPPORT project - Dr Thomas Kitchen and Dr Esther Godfrey.

1635-1655  De-briefing- how to get it right? Kirsty Dundas

1655-1715-  Q&A

BICS Annual General Meeting (South Hall)

17.15 – 17.45 - AGM

1900 BICS Conference Dinner

Playfair Library, Old College quadrangle, South Street (Attire: smart casual dress) 

08.30 – 08.45 Coffee

Oral Presentations (South Hall)

Chair: Andrew Weeks

0845 – 08.55  Nicola O'Brien. Intrapartum care experience and outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women in Glasgow. (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow).

08.55 - 09.05 Cassandra Yuill. Cervical ripening at home and in hospital: experiences and perspectives of women, birth partners and staff. (City St George's, University of London).

09.05 – 09.15 Emad Ali. The Impact of Delay during Induction of Labour. (Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham). 

    Building consensus around delays in Induction of Labour (Sharon Morad, Sophie Dann and Sara Kenyon)

Plenary 3: Managing suspected macrosomia (South Hall)

Chair: Andrew Weeks

09.25 – 09.50 (25 mins) – The big baby trial, Siobhan Quenby

09.50-10.15 (30 mins) – Communicating risk- Plan A, Mairead Black

10.15-10.25 (10 mins)- A lived experience - Rebekah Mann

10.25-10.40 (10 mins) Panel discussion: where do we go from here? - Andrew Weeks

10.40-10.50 (10 mins) – KIMAL (sponsorship presentation)

10.50 – 11.20 (30 mins) Coffee 

WORKSHOPS (St Leonard’s Hall)

For workshops E & F, choose 2 of the following to attend:

    Gentle caesarean birth - Ihab Abbasi [St Leonard's - St Trinneans]

    BAPM update - Sarah Bates [St Leonard's - Nelson]

    An update on obstetric anaesthesia - Andrew Clark [St Leonard's 1st floor - Pollock]

    Culture in maternity services - Tony Kelly / Hannah Rutter [South Hall]

11.20– 12.20 (1hr) Workshop E - go to the room shown above for your 1st allocated workshop

12.20– 13.20 (1hr) Workshop F - go to the room shown above for your 2nd allocated workshop

13.20 – 14.00 Lunch (South Hall)

Plenary 4: Improving assisted vaginal birth (South Hall)

Chair: Vicky Cochrane

14.00-14.20 New guidance from MASIC- Susie Crowe

14.20-14.40 BRAIN stickers / It’s OK to ask- Mathilde Peace 

14.40-15.00 What has the ROTATE study taught us? - Dawn Parris

15.00-15.15 Power dynamics on delivery suite - Andrew Weeks

15.15-15.30 Q&A

1530-1535 – Closing Remarks and Prize Giving 

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