Thursday, 17 June 2010 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Novotel Bristol Centre, Bristol
This year, the RCM is coming to Bristol for our Annual Event. The Annual Event takes place in a different location across the UK four countries each year, to enable members across the country to have the opportunity to see us and come to an event in their area.
Professor Cathy Warwick, RCM General Secretary will make her annual address to the membership, reviewing our work and setting out agenda and vision going forward as we move into a time of challenges for NHS maternity services. The RCM Annual Review 2008/9 will be launched at this event.
The 2010 Zepherina Veitch Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Tina Lavender, University of Manchester with the title Maternal choice in the 21st Century: expectations, realities and implementation. The concept of maternal choice has become a widely accepted aspect of maternity care, evidenced by its positioning in a number of important policy documents, professional papers and the lay media. This lecture will explore the definitions of choice and its appropriateness within contemporary maternity care. Using women’s journeys to highlight contributing factors to decision making, the lecture will illustrate the complexities surrounding choice. The lecture will draw on empirical evidence to relate choice to several aspects of the women’s journeys, including age at conception, antenatal screening, labour interventions, birth mode and birth place.
Tina Lavender is Professor of Midwifery at the University of Manchester. She leads a programme of research exploring maternal experiences, expectations and outcomes; her main research focus being the management of prolonged labour and partogram use. Tina has published extensively in this field. Tina’s research uses mixed methodologies (RCT’s and qualitative designs) and has a strong record of user input. She is Co-editor in Chief of the British Journal of Midwifery, Associate Editor of the African Journal of Midwifery and Associate Editor of the Pregnancy and Childbirth group of the Cochrane Collaboration. Tina is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives and European Academy of Nurse Science.
Please note that this event has now passed.
