The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

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Weekly conversations with leading midwifery experts - hosted by the Maternity and Midwifery Forum.

  1. 6D AGO

    18.6 Real world midwifery: Informed Consent

    The importance of consent, and specifically informed consent, is crucial in ensuring that women, babies and their families receive maternity care, personalised and tailored to their particular needs. This week we are joined by Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education) at the NMC and Geraldine Lucas Head of Midwifery at the University of Worcester, who join us to present some of the challenges that student midwives and midwives face in every day practice, and discuss how best to achieve true informed choice. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Dr Jacqui Williams, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Education), NMC Geraldine Lucas Head of Midwifery, University of Worcester

    1h 4m
  2. Highlights from the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026

    FEB 13

    Highlights from the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026

    2 presentations from the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026: Student midwives' exposure to physiological birth: An analysis of 3055 births Dr Claire Feeley, Senior Lecturer and Midwifery/Maternal Health Researcher, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, Kings College London Teaching Waterbirth for the 21st century.  Love, skills and knowledge Dianne Garland, Founder, MidwifeExpert; Author

    49 min

  3. FEB 6

    18.4 An update on the work of NHS Resolution’s Early Notification scheme

    Series 18 - Episode 4: An update on the work of NHS Resolution’s Early Notification scheme The Early Notification (EN) Scheme is a key initiative towards achieving the delivery of safer maternity care, providing a more rapid, caring response to families in cases of severe harm and supporting a learning culture. This session will explore the NHS Resolution’s Early Notification (EN) scheme and share learning and resources that are useful for clinical practice. The scheme proactively investigates specific brain injuries at birth for the purposes of determining if negligence has caused the harm. We then aim to investigate the claim sooner to provide earlier resolution for families. The EN team have published two key learning reports and you will have an opportunity to hear more about the reports and the work of the scheme during the presentation. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Annette Anderson – Head of Early Notification Clinical Team Lynn Tilley – Early Notification Regional Lead (London) Kelly Inglis – National Midwifery Clinical Fellow Elizabeth Pells – Midwife and Early Notification Family Liaison and Mediation Lead

    1h 3m

  4. JAN 30

    18.3 Anti-racist Midwifery: Practice Improving care

    Series 18 - Episode 2: Anti-racist Midwifery: Practice Improving care Keelie Grindley, EDI Lead, UHNM The impact of systematic racism, unconscious bias and the disparities in maternal and perinatal outcomes for Black and Brown women and birthing people in comparison to their white counterparts must encourage us all to look critically at ourselves, and the care that we provide to women, birthing people and families. In this session Sue is joined by Keelie Grindley, EDI Lead at the University Hospitals of North Midlands, who will share some of her work providing education to the maternity workforce and student midwives on anti-racist midwifery practice and racial inequalities.

    1h 2m

  5. JAN 23

    18.2 What matters: Maternity services for neurodivergent women during pregnancy

    Series 18 - Episode 2: What matters: Maternity services for neurodivergent women during pregnancy Being neurodiverse can present significant challenges to women entering maternity services and meeting the needs of women who have been identified as neurodiverse, or are yet to be, is important in ensuring appropriate and compassionate care during their pregnancy and childbirth journey. In this session we look at work being carried out by Lisa Allan, specialist midwife in Glasgow and Greater Clyde and Maureen McDowall, part of the What Matters to You (WMTY) support team who have co-developed a tool to support and develop maternity services for neurodivergent women during pregnancy. The work focuses on understanding women from a WMTY perspective using a caring and kind approach guided by the 3 main principles of the WMTY: asking, listening, and doing what matters. This allows a space for a What Matters to You discussion to help understand what is important to the person who is using maternity services and how staff can work together with the women to deliver the service that’s right for them in their birthing journey. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Lisa Allan, Specialist Midwife in Perinatal Mental Health, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. Maureen MacDowall, Project Officer, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

    1 hr

  6. JAN 16

    18.1 Becoming, and being, a midwife

    What can we learn from the stories of newly qualified midwives In this session, we discuss research undertaken by Suzanne which explored the experience of newly qualified midwives and its implications for supporting and developing new midwives. The identity of being a midwife is through relationships and this needs some rebalancing as practitioners start to negotiate the ‘doing’ (where the focus is on the proficiencies) with the ‘being’. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Dr Suzanne Crozier, Midwifery Consultant

    1h 1m

  7. 12/12/2025

    17.13 Pregnancy, labour, birth and the baby - accessible knowledge for parents and professionals

    Issues around labour and birth and the development of maternal infant attachment and bonding has been an area of interest to parents and also to midwives in supporting parents in their journey to parenthood. In this session, we are joined by author and midwife, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, who will be discussing her graphic guide for parents, which midwives may also find helpful in expanding parents’ feeling of preparation and access to information. We then move the focus to mothers' individual birth experiences and the early development of mother-infant bonding which have long been of interest to parents and to midwives. We are joined by psychologist, researcher and educator, Dr Carmen Power, who will be talking about the impacts of physiological and psychological aspects of labour and birth on the mother's mental health, her baby's early behaviour and early communications between baby and mother, providing some key areas that the midwife can develop to support the process of bonding. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Dr Carmen Power, Psychologist writer, researcher, educator and consultant Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Artist, Midwife, Writer & Creative Producer

    1h 11m

  8. 12/05/2025

    17.12 Transforming childbirth to thrive and survive

    The UN intends for women and girls to not only survive, but thrive, and, in the process, transform their life chances and those of their communities. However, the focus in maternity care in the uk is more specific, on safety and survival without trauma. While this is important, it does not capture the ‘personalisation’ - thriving and transforming- part of the picture. One way of building potential to add this other critical dimension to the service we provide is to research in this space. The presentation will look at what kinds of questions midwives could ask; what kind of evidence is currently being generated in this area; how to build research capacity to answer future questions - and, briefly, what steps could be taken to put the research we have into practice. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald Contributions from: Soo Downe, BA(Hons), RM, MSc, PhD, OBE, University of Lancashire

    56 min
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Weekly conversations with leading midwifery experts - hosted by the Maternity and Midwifery Forum.

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  • Creator
    Narrowcast Media Group
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    226
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