The Baby Lifeline National Maternity Safety Conference
Our seventh National Maternity Safety Conference takes place on 16th September 2026. The conference will be solutions-focused, with senior decision makers from NHS trusts, frontline staff, service users, and campaigners uniting to help to achieve Baby Lifeline’s goal: the best possible outcome for every mother, birthing person and baby.
Baby Lifeline is always keen to showcase best practice in healthcare and we were pleased to welcome submissions to our poster competition again this year.
The abstract submission deadline has now passed. Thank you to everyone that submitted an abstract – we will be in touch.
Next Steps for Safer Care: From Insight to Implementation
We are specifically looking to showcase quality improvement projects with outcome data, and will prioritise projects relevant to this year’s theme conference theme.
Submissions should outline the maternity service quality improvement measure, including the following in fewer than 500 words:
- Aims & objectives: outline the “why?”
- Description of the intervention or initiative
- Impact of the project including relevant outcome data
- Relevance to this year’s theme: Next Steps for Safer Care: From Insight to Implementation.
Take a look at last year’s posters here.
To submit your abstract, complete the form below (or download it here and email a copy to support@babylifeline.org.uk by the submission deadline).
Key Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: 28th June 2026 (11.59pm UK time)
- Abstract author notifications: end of July 2026
- Poster submission deadline: 4th September 2026
- National Maternity Safety Conference: 16th September 2026
If your abstract is successful:
- To ensure your abstract can be considered for the competition, at least one of the named authors will need to attend the conference.
We kindly ask that the attending representative books their ticket by mid‑August. Full booking details are available on our website
- Your poster should be portrait and size A0 (841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 inches)
- You will need to print and bring your poster to the conference; we will provide boards and fixings
- You must submit a PDF of your final poster to the Baby Lifeline team by 4th September 2026
- Unfortunately, there is not time for each person to “present” their poster, but we do encourage you to stand by your poster in the breaks as delegates will likely want to talk to you!
Thank you to everyone who has submitted their abstract! We will be in touch.