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Past events organised by WMPI - 2003

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DATE
EVENT
TOPICS
27/11/2003 Antenatal Screening in the West Midlands
1st Regional Conference
  • Antenatal Screening in the new NHS

  • Implementing Antenatal Screening Strategies in the West Midlands

  • Monitoring A Quality Service

  • Down's Syndrome - from Screening to Prenatal Diagnosis

  • Genetics: building services for the future

  • Informed Choice - a skill to be learnt?

  • Haemoglobinopathies Screening: is it in crisis?

  • Infectious Disease Screening in Pregnancy
14/11/2003 A workshop on the new Birth Notes
  • An innovative labour record that facilitates:
    • Informed choice
    • Risk assessment and patient safety
    • Documentation and record keeping
  • Clinical Application of revised partogram
  • Implementation and costs
07/10/2003 Pregnancy Notes and Customised Fetal Growth Charts
  • Patient Safety and Avoidable Compromise
  • Antenatal Screening and Informed Choice
  • The Clinical Application of Customised Charts
  • Fundal Height and Fetal Growth Surveillance
01/10/2003 Primary Care and Integrated Maternity services - a report on service development
  • What do mothers want? Perspectives from the NSF and the NCT
  • Priorities for perinatal care
  • The Bellevue Health Centre: maternity needs in primary care
  • Integrated maternity services: the midwife’s perspective
  • Results I: A comparative assessment of process and outcome
  • Results II: Staff survey
  • Results III: Parent education
  • Sum up: results and implications
  • Perspectives on midwifery recruitment, retention and return
  • Funding and enhanced services
  • General Discussion: the way forward
  • PC-AIMS report is now available to download.
11/07/2003 New Pregnancy Notes and  Customised Fetal Growth Charts
  • Clinical Application of New Pregnancy Notes and Customised Growth Charts
  • Fetal Growth Surveillance and Fundal Height
  • The Clinical Application of Customised Charts
  • Implementation and Costings
23/06/2003 Strategies for Smoking Cessation
  • Effective brief intervention techniques
  • Motivational interviewing skills
  • CO monitors: rational and practice
  • Nicotine Replacement Therapy
  • Appropriate methods for onward referral
  • Public health perspectives and NHS targets
09/06/2003 to  11/06/2003 7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
INTRAUTERINE SURVEILLANCE
Please click here for further information.
04/06/2003 Electronic Child Health Records in the West Midlands - 
A Consultation Event
  • Learning from Laming
  • Information Strategies for children
  • What Information do we need too support delivery
  • Makings Children Matter
  • "Kidslink": The New Zealand Child Health System for Immunisation
  • Towards a Unified Record of Child Health Information
20/05/2003 West Midlands Intrapartum Notes Please see this letter for further information
15/05/2003 1st Trimester Screening for Down's Syndrome: Exploring perspectives for the West Midlands
  • Setting the scene
    • The national agenda for down's screening
    • 1st trimester screening with ultrasound and serum markers
  • Fetal Growth Surveillance and Fundal Height
    • Informed choice and consent
    • Considerations for serum screening
    • Chorionic Villus Sampling: requirements for a safe service
    • Options in Cytogenetics: PCR vs culture
    • Management of increased nuchal translucency with normal karyotype
  • Training for Nuchal Translucency Scanning
    • Ultrasound resources in the West Midlands
    • Options for regional NT training
14/05/2003 Maternity and Parental Rights Workshop
  • Maternity rights during pregnancy
  • Case studies
  • Giving notice for maternity leave and pay
  • Maternity leave
  • Maternity pay
  • Rights during maternity leave
  • Returning to work
  • Parental rights
07/05/2003 Strategies for Smoking Cessation
  • Effective brief intervention techniques
  • Motivational interviewing skills
  • CO monitors: rational and practice
  • Nicotine Replacement Therapy
  • Appropriate methods for onward referral
  • Public health perspectives and NHS targets
06/05/2003 New Pregnancy Notes and  Customised Fetal Growth Charts
  • Clinical Application of New Pregnancy Notes and Customised Growth Charts
  • Fetal Growth Surveillance and Fundal Height
  • The Clinical Application of Customised Charts
  • Implementation and Costings
12/03/2003 Awarness Workshops for the implementation of Haemoglobinopathies Screening
  • Rationale for the National Programme
  • The Neonatal Process
  • The Antenatal Perspective
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Identification of barriers/challenges to implementatio
  • Establishing a communications pathway
  • The Way Forward
26/02/2003 Update on MANNERS
  • Updates on both the maternity and neonatal projects, including:
    • Confidentiality
    • Core dataset
    • Technical Systems
    • Report from trial sites

    Further information about MANNERS can be found at http://www.perinatal.nhs.uk

03/02/2003 Maternity and Parental Rights Workshop
  • Maternity rights during pregnancy
  • Case studies
  • Giving notice for maternity leave and pay
  • Maternity leave
  • Maternity pay
  • Rights during maternity leave
  • Returning to work
  • Parental rights
January 2003 ULTRASOUND in the FIRST TRIMESTER for PREGNANCY DATING
  • Principles of ultrasound imaging
  • Ultrasound equipment controls
  • Safe use of ultrasound
  • Ultrasound in the first trimester
  • Ultrasound measurement for pregnancy dating
  • Multiple pregnancy assessment in the first trimester
  • Communication and reporting
  • Medico-legal issues
  • Breaking bad news
January 2003 ULTRASOUND FETAL SURVEILLANCE in the THIRD TRIMESTER
  • Principles of ultrasound imaging
  • Ultrasound equipment controls
  • Safe use of ultrasound
  • Fetal biometry in the third trimester
  • Liquor volume assessment
  • Doppler of the umbilical artery
  • Communication and reporting
  • Medico-legal issues
  • Breaking bad news
29/01/2003 Pregnancy Notes - Enhancing Antenatal Care
  • Patient Safety and Avoidable Compromise
  • Antenatal Screening and Informed Choice
  • The Clinical Application of Customised Charts
  • Fundal Height and Fetal Growth Surveillance
09/01/2003 Ultrasound in Pregnancy: What every midwife needs to know!
  • Early pregnancy problems
  • Miscarriage
  • Ectopic Pregnancy
  • 1st Trimester Screening
  • Nuchal translucency
  • Nasal bone hypoplasia
  • 2nd Trimester Anomaly Scans
  • Soft Markers
  • Structural Abnormalities
  • 3rd Trimester Assessment
  • Liquor volume assessment
  • Uterine artery Doppler
  • Cervical Length
  • Day Assessment Unit

 

 
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