When: Thursday 26th September 2024
Where: The Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1PP
Bookings are now closed
This year’s conference is fully booked. We can’t wait to welcome all attendees to the Hilton Metropole on Thursday 26th September. To be added to our waiting list for a place, please email support@babylifeline.org.uk.
This year's theme will be Challenge. Empower. Improve.
#MatSafety2024 – Our speakers
Keynote Speakers
Sir Rob Behrens CBE
Former UK National Ombudsman (Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman)
Professor Lucy Easthope
Sunday Times Best Selling author of When The Dust Settles.
Professor in Mass Fatalities and Pandemics at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
Image credit: Caitlin Chescoe
Speakers Confirmed
Clotilde Abe
Co-Founder, Five X More
Chris Binnie
National Maternity Service User for Culture and Leadership, NHS England
Kate Brintworth
Chief Midwifery Officer for NHS England
Larysa Cheprasova
President, Ukrainian Midwives’ Union
Dr Anita Banerjee
Obstetric Physician, Honorary Reader in Obstetric Medicine at King’s College London and Deputy Director of Medical Education at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Member of Baby Lifeline's Multi-Professional Advisory Panel
Sarah Blackwell
Quality Improvement Lead Midwife, University Hospitals of Leicester
Cathy Brewster
National Maternity Service User Voice Representative for the Maternity & Neonatal Programme, NHS England
Dr Susie Crowe
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and President, British Intrapartum Care Society
Dr Angie Doshani
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, University Hospitals Leicester
Alina Dunayevska
PhD, Obstetrician, “Safe Birth” NGO
Dr Ngozi Edi-Osagie
National Clinical Director for Neonatology, NHS England
Charlotte Elvander
Quality of Care Developer, BB Stockholm Birth Unit; Vice President, Swedish Association of Midwives; Steering Committee Member, Swedish Pregnancy Register
Clara Haken
Consultant Midwife, Hampshire; Member of Baby Lifeline’s Multi-Professional Advisory Panel
Lara Harrison
Quality Improvement Lead Midwife, University Hospitals of Leicester
Dr Lucy Mackillop
Consultant Obstetric Physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, and President of the MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society
Amber Marshall
Founder, Big Birthas
Dr Stephanie Hanley
Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Viktoriya Luchka
Head of “Safe Birth” NGO
Janaki Mahadevan
Co-CEO of Birthrights
Dr Edward Morris CBE
Regional Medical Director, NHS England, East of England, and Chair of Baby Lifeline's Multi-Professional Advisory Panel
Ngawai Moss
Co-Chair, Bridge Commission; Elly Charity; Former Chair, NMPA Clinical Reference Group; Member of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group
Donna Ockenden
Chair of the Independent Reviews into Maternity Services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Honorary President of Baby Lifeline
Professor Shakila Thangaratinam
Professor of Women's Health, University of Liverpool
Miss Ranee Thakar
President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Gill Walton
CEO & General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives
Nikki Wilson
CEO, Make Birth Better
Geeta Nayar
Senior Associate Solicitor at Irwin Mitchell, Campaigner for Maternity Safety, Advocate for The MASIC Foundation and Birth Trauma Association.
Professor Donald Peebles
National Clinical Director for Maternity, NHS England
Susanna Stanford
Co-author of the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs2); Co-Chair of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group
James Titcombe OBE
Chief Executive, Patient Safety Watch
Suzanne White
Head of the Clinical Negligence at Leigh DAY, on the APIL Executive Committee, council member at MASIC and a trustee for the Patients’ Associations
Khalood Zaffaron
Operating Department Practitioner, NHS
Exhibitors:
This year’s exhibitors are now fully booked – we can’t wait to welcome them all on Thursday 26th September.
Photos from The National Maternity Safety Conference 2023:
