Positive Birth Conference 2016: Informed Choice
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Dr Mandie Scamell, City University London
‘She can’t come here!’ The ethics of choice of place of birth
Dr Mandie Scamell is a medical anthropologist and midwife specialising in risk and the maternity services in the UK. Mandie joined City University London in 2013 having previously been part of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at Kings College London. Her main area of work has been on midwifery care in the UK, with particular interests in clinical governance and institutionalised risk management technologies and in the culture and organisation of maternity care.
Suzanne Lee, City University London
‘Risk Perception in High Risk Pregnancy’
Suzanne is a midwifery lecturer who joined City University London in 2013. She previously worked as a midwife at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. Her main area of interest is antenatal care and in particular midwifery care for women with high risk pregnancies. She is currently undertaking a PhD researching risk perception in high risk pregnancy.
Rebecca Schiller, Birthrights
Information, Choice and Human rights
Rebecca is director of the human rights in childbirth charity Birthrights and spokesperson on reproductive rights and birth related issues. She writes freelance about related topics and her short book, All That Matters: Women’s Rights in Childbirth is published by The Guardian. Her next book is out in September 2016.
Rebecca is also a recognised birth doula, offering support to birthing women and their families in London and East Kent. She was nominated for Doula of the Year 2014 and is a director of Doula UK. Before entering the childbirth world she completed a Masters degree in War Studies with a focus on human rights issues. She has worked in the charity and NGO sector, most recently at Human Rights Watch.
Rebecca is also a recognised birth doula, offering support to birthing women and their families in London and East Kent. She was nominated for Doula of the Year 2014 and is a director of Doula UK. Before entering the childbirth world she completed a Masters degree in War Studies with a focus on human rights issues. She has worked in the charity and NGO sector, most recently at Human Rights Watch.
Discussion Panel: Do Maternity Services Enable Informed Choice?
Cathy Warwick CBE, Royal College of Midwives
Cathy is Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), one of the world's oldest and largest midwifery organisations, representing the majority of the UK’s midwives.Cathy began her career by gaining a nursing degree at Edinburgh University in 1975. She then completed the one year midwifery course at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London in 1976, and worked as a midwife across a variety of clinical settings in hospitals and in the community. Her work has led to invitations to sit on many national maternity policy committees, and she has been Chair of the Midwifery Committee at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and Chair of the maternity working group contributing to the Darzi report, Healthcare for London.Cathy has also written and published widely on midwifery issues and lectures and speaks nationally and internationally. She was awarded a visiting professorship by King’s College, London in 2004, She received a CBE for Services to Healthcare in 2006, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from St George’s and Kingston University, London in 2007.
Sheena Byrom OBE, Freelance Midwifery Consultant
Sheena is a practising midwife, and worked within the NHS for more than 35 years. Sheena was one of the UK’s first consultant midwives, and as a head of midwifery successfully helped to lead the development of three birth centres in East Lancashire. Sheena is a Board member of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), a member of the RCM’s Better Births initiative, Patron of StudentMidwife.Net and Chair of the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust. Sheena recently worked as a midwifery expert at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust helping them to develop midwifery led units, and she is one of the project leads for an exciting development, the Midwifery Unit Network.
Sheena’s midwifery memoirs, Catching Babies, is a Sunday Times bestseller, and her absolute passion is promoting normal physiological birth, and a positive childbirth experience for all women. Her latest book, The Roar Behind the Silence: why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care is jointly edited with Soo Downe, and together they hope the book will used as a resource to promote positive childbirth throughout the world. Sheena was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to midwifery, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2015. Sheena actively lobbies for maternity service improvements through several social media channels. Sheena is currently a midwife consultant, and lectures nationally and internationally on midwifery and childbirth related topics.
Milli Hill, Positive Birth Movement
Millie is a writer and the mother of three small children, and the founder of the Positive Birth Movement. She is a columnist for Telegraph Women where she writes about the experience of birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
Presented by the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research
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