Conference Location Armagh City Hotel Co Armagh BT60 4FR

Tel: 0044 (0)28 3751 8888 Royal College of Midwives / Fax: 0044 (0)28 3751277 Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Email: [email protected] www.armaghcityhotel.com Ireland’s Annual Hotel Accomodation Rates Joint Midwifery Conference 2012 £71.00 sterling Single B&B £84.00 sterling Twin B&B Every Pregnant Woman Needs a Midwife and Some Need a Doctor Too Early Bookings advisable Thursday, 18th October 2012 Armagh City Hotel, Co Armagh Booking Forms also available online www.inmo.ie and www.rcm.org.uk

Royal College of Midwives Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, UK Board for Northern Ireland The Whitworth Building, 58 Howard Street, , BT1 6PJ North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7 Tel: 0044 2890241531 Tel: 00353 1 664 0641 Fax: 00353 1 6610466 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.rcm.org.uk www.inmo.ie SPEAKERS

Professor Lesley Page, RCM President. Lesley Page is president and a board member of the Royal College of Midwives. She took up office on April 2nd, 2012. She was the first professor of midwifery in the UK at Thames Valley University and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. She is a renowned international academic, advocate and activist for midwives, mothers and babies with more than 32 years’ midwifery experience. Her accomplished career has encompassed clinical practice, management and leadership, academic and policy work. She has practised midwifery in the community, hospital and home birth settings and continues to practise in Oxfordshire.

Polly Ferguson MSc, RN, RM, PGCEA Polly trained as a nurse in Oxford then as a midwife in York. She has worked in both hospital and community settings and currently works 2 days a month on a busy labour ward in Cardiff. She has worked as a lecturer in midwifery and as head of the Royal College of Midwives in Wales. She now works at the Welsh Assembly Government advising on maternity services and primary care nursing. She has led the development of an all Wales clinical pathway for normal labour, introduced routine enquiry into domestic abuse in the antenatal period across the country and has led an all Wales team of midwives to raise the home birth rates to be the highest in the UK. Her particular interest at present is to explore what makes midwives happy in their work as well as the values and beliefs that form their professional identity.

Royal College of Midwives / Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Dr Keelin O’Donoghue MB BCh BAO (NUI), PhD (London) MRCOG (RCOG) Keelin is a medical graduate of University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists (2000). She received her PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of London in 2005. Having completed sub-specialisation Ireland’s Annual Joint Midwives Conference in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital London, she took up a post as Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer atCork University Maternity Hospital and University College Cork in 2007. At CUMH she is part of the Perinatal Medicine team, and is the lead clinician for clinical ultrasound, fetal medicine, multiple pregnancy, and pregnancy loss. Her research interests include non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, fetal microchimerism, maternal health during Every Pregnant Woman Needs a Midwife and Some Need a Doctor Too and after pregnancy, pregnancy loss and monochorionic twin pregnancy. Thursday, 18th October 2012 - Armagh City Hotel, Co Armagh Marion Cunningham RGN RM H.Dip Diagnostic Imaging Ultrasound, Obs & Gynae, UCD. Marion qualified as an RGN from Cork University Hospital in 1996 and in 2000 she obtained a Higher Diploma in Midwifery, following combined training from Erinville & St Finbarr’s Maternity Hospitals and UCC. Over a number of years Marion’s interest and love of ultrasound grew. In 2006, she completed her H.Dip in Diagnostic Imaging in Obs & Gynae in UCD. Her full time involvement in the care of women Chairperson: Breedagh Hughes, Director, RCM Northern Ireland with multiple pregnancies began in late 2008. At that time she took over the Perinatal Ireland, ESPRiT Twin study in Cork, monitoring sonographic predictors of growth discordance in twin pregnancies. In 2009, both Marion and Dr Keelin O’Donoghue set up the multiple pregnancy antenatal clinic in Cork University Maternity Hospital. 8.45am: Registration Dr Jim Morrow. Jim is a Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast and also an Honorary Reader with Queen’s University, Belfast. Following his 9.30am: Official Opening attachment to the Royal and Downe Hospitals in Northern Ireland, he worked in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. There he was involved in the early trials of many of the newer anti-epileptic drugs that have subsequently become established in the treatment of epilepsy. Concurrently, he obtained a Doctorate examining Mr Edwin Poots, Minister of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland the physical, social and occupational handicaps of epilepsy and in particular the benefit of specialised epilepsy clinics to patients with epilepsy. His study, whereby he randomised patients with suspected epilepsy to either a general neurology clinic (the gold standard at the time) or a specialised epilepsy clinic, (a controversial new 9.45am: Normal and Complex Pregnancy development), remains unique and helped to promote specialisation in epilepsy within the UK. Laterally, he has been involved in the post marking surveillance of the Speakers: Professor Lesley Page, President, RCM anti-epileptic drugs, with particular reference to pregnancy. He is principal investigator of the UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register - this register has been monitoring the outcomes of pregnancies in women with epilepsy. He recently obtained a second Doctorate as a result of this work examining the teratogenic effects of anti-epileptic Dr Carmen Regan, Consultant Obstetrician, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital drugs. He chairs Epilepsy Action’s Advisory Committee in Northern Ireland and acts as a specialist advisor for Epilepsy Action UK on women’s issues. He has published 10.30am: All Wales Clinical Pathways widely on this and many other related subjects in the field of epilepsy. Speaker: Polly Ferguson, DHSSC-DPHHP Nursing Officer Wales Beth Irwin. Beth began her nursing career in 1987. Once Beth qualified she worked as a neurology nurse for approximately 4 years in the regional neurology ward based at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Then she moved into midwifery and worked as a midwife in Oxford and Belfast until taking up her current post as an Epilepsy Specialist Nurse/Midwife in January 2003. Her qualifications include an MSc in Epilepsy management. Beth currently maintains the UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy 11.00am: Trade Exhibition & Coffee Break Register and its helpline. Beth specialises in epilepsy and pregnancy and as such she attends a pre-conceptual clinic weekly and a joint epilepsy/obstetric clinic fortnightly. Her role also incorporates education advice and support for adults with epilepsy within Northern Ireland their families and the professionals who may also 11.30am: Concurrent Sessions ‘Partnerships in Care Provision’ be involved in their care. Beth works with supportive colleagues within a good multidisciplinary team where epilepsy and best practice is a priority. Delegates will be offered TWO concurrent sessions (1 morning and 1 afternoon) Louise Rafferty, RGN. RM. BSc Hons (TCD). Louise is now based in Dublin having come a long way from Tipperary via Scotland, England, Australia and Germany. She qualified as a nurse from the Meath hospital and did her midwifery in Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland. Louise completed the Bachelor of to be chosen on arrival. Delegates are asked to remain in session for the duration of the session. Midwifery Science degree in TCD in 2009. Louise has a wide range of experience having practised in the public and private sector as a nurse and midwife both at home and abroad. She consolidated her midwifery training in the John Radcliffe in Oxford where she developed and honed her delivery skills. She then went on to practice 1) Management of Multiple Pregnancy at CUMH with Aboriginal women in Western Australia. This afforded her the vast opportunity to develop rich communication skills with an ethnic group. Ten years after having her own three daughters Louise returned to Midwifery in the Rotunda Hospital and has practised there for the past seven years, in the delivery suite, outpatients and Speakers: Dr Keelin O’Donoghue, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Obstetrician since 2010 as a Mental Health Support Midwife. Marion Cunningham, Midwife Deirdre Madden, PRN. Deirdre’s background is fully in mental health nursing; having worked in an acute setting for many years she made the transition to community 2) Epilepsy and liaison mental health. While travelling she worked in inpatient mother and baby units in Australia, an area of care which held an interest for her. Working in Ireland she has developed a mental health nursing post within the National Maternity hospital. The role is very varied, providing an assessment for women attending the Speakers: Dr Jim Morrow, Consultant Neurologist and Beth Irwin, Epilepsy Nurse/Midwife hospital. Based on individual needs intervention will be provided as she has experience in an array of psychological interventions such as IPT, basic CBC, DBT. She has an interest in trying to dispel the myths and misconceptions about serious mental illness and medication use in pregnancy, post natally and if breastfeeding. 3) Perinatal Mental Health

Speakers: Louise Rafferty, Mental Health Support Midwife Rebecca Scott, MSc, BSc, BA Rebecca is a team midwife in Lagan Valley Hospital Maternity. She has a special interest in obesity in pregnancy. Deirdre Madden, Liaison Mental Health Nurse For her MSc dissertation she carried out a large quantitative study looking at maternal and neonatal outcomes in relation to maternal BMI. 4) Obesity in Pregnancy Speakers: Rebecca Scott, Team Midwife and Damien Hughes, Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Damien Hughes MB BCh (QUB), FRCA (London) Damien graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1991, and completed his FRCA (London) in 1996. He has been a consultant anaesthetist at the , Belfast since 2001 with his main subspecialty interests being anaesthesia and analgesia in obstetrics, and the management of acute pain. He is the lead anaesthetist for obstetrics in the South Eastern Trust. Damien believes passionately in multi-professional team working and 12.30pm: Lunch & Trade Exhibition and Raffles represents anaesthetics on the Trust’s labour ward forum. His areas of interest include remifentanil pca for labour analgesia, and the provision of high dependency care on labour ward. Chairperson: Sally Millar, Chairperson, INMO Midwives Section Dr Edwin Chandraharan, M.B.B.S. M.S (Obs & Gyn), MRCOG, DFFP, DCRM. Edwin works as the Lead Clinician for Labour Ward and Lead for Clinical Governance in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Clinical Director for Women’s Services at St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He is passionate about delivering high quality 2.00pm: Concurrent Sessions repeated as above ‘Partnerships in Care Provision’ patient care with a strong focus on Risk Management and Patient Experience. He received a Gold Medal for ENT and Head & Neck Surgery and Gold Medals in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Medical School and was awarded Gold Medals for the Best Candidate in Master of Surgery in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, both Part 1 & Part 2 3.15pm: Intermittent vs Continuous Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring examinations. Speaker: Dr Edwin Chandraharan, Clinical Director for Women’s Services Mary Brosnan, MSc Mgmt, RGN, RM. Mary is the Director of Midwifery and Nursing in the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, one of the largest maternity hospitals in at St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London Europe with over 9000 births annually. Mary also represents midwifery services on several national committees and is vice president of IADNAM, the Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery. Mary held the position of midwifery advisor to the Minister for Health and Children in Ireland from 1999 to 2002, assisting to devel- 3.45pm: Woman Centred Care, The Way Forward op and influence health policy in the area of maternity services and women’s health. She is very interested in research and is involved with research teams in University Speaker: Mary Brosnan, Director of Midwifery and Nursing, The National Maternity Hospital , Dublin College Dublin and RCSI, on several topics including assessing satisfaction levels of mothers with postnatal care, staffing levels and workforce planning in maternity. She Mary Hinds, Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, PHA is an adjunct associate Professor in University College Dublin and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine since 2009. Mary Hinds. Mary’s adventure in the health service began as a nursing auxiliary in the Mater Hospital, Belfast where she completed her nurse training and worked until 4.15pm: Closing Remarks & Poster Prize 1989 as a staff nurse in Accident and Emergency. She was appointed a sister in A&E in Lagan Valley Hospital, , went on to open a respite home for children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours, manage an IT and Medical Records department, worked in Planning and Performance management, and finally became Patient information Manager managing medical records and IT department for the acute hospital programme of care. In 1997 she moved to work as a Nursing Officer at the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety, taking the lead in a range of nursing issues including Acute Hospital services, palliative care and the strategy for nursing. In 2000 she moved back to the Mater Hospital as the Director of Nursing, where she was privileged to work with the community of north Belfast nursing and midwifery staff, allied health professions and a wide range of other services. In 2006 she moved to the Royal College of Nursing where she became the Director for Northern Ireland and a member of the UK management team. With the creation of the Public Health Agency, Mary moved to become the Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, a position she currently holds.