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“1 in every 250 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth in the UK. That’s 8 babies every day.”
Tommy’s 2024
Chaired by Professor Alex Heazell, Clinical Director Tommy’s Stillbirth Research Centre St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester & Steering Group Member, Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version 3 this conference focuses on meeting the national maternity safety ambition, to halve rates of perinatal mortality from 2010 to 2025, and ensure adherence to the Saving Babies Lives Version 3 Care Bundle.
“Progress to reduce stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates are stagnating across the UK: the stillbirth rate in Wales has remained at around 4.4 per 1,000 total births since 2018 and there has been little change in the neonatal mortality rates in England and Northern Ireland over the past few years.”
Saving Babies’ Lives 2024: A report on progress May 2024
“We are not on track to meet the national maternity safety ambitions in England by 2025… Compared to most recent data, around 1,000 lives a year5 could have been saved in England if ambitions were met.”
Saving Babies’ Lives 2024: A report on progress May 2024
The conference will focus on the updated elements of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle with an extended focus on the new Element 6 covering the management of pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who are known to be 4-5 times at risk of losing their baby.
“Women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes have persistently high perinatal mortality with no improvement over the past 5 years.”
Saving Babies’ Lives Version Three, NHS England
This conference will enable you to:
Reflect on the Lived Experience of losing a baby through stillbirth
Address why the NHS is not on track to achieve the stated aim of 50% reductions in stillbirth by 2025
Reflect, assess your practice and effectively implement Saving Babies Lives Version 3 published
Update your care processes in line with the updated elements of the Care Bundle
Learn from outstanding practice in implementation of SBLV3
Implement and understand the rationale for the New Element 6: Management of Pre-existing Diabetes in Pregnancy
Reflect on national developments and learning from MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits & Confidential Enquiries
Learn about effective, evidence based strategies for stillbirth prevention
Implement best practice in Fetal Growth: risk assessment, surveillance and management
Reduce pre term births and optimise perinatal care
Improve care and support for women from diverse communities and understand the drivers for inequalites
Understand how you identify and improve the management of risk factors
Identify key strategies for learning from perinatal mortality reviews at a local level
Understand how you can better support women and families following stillbirth
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
