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Today's chair: Mr Perbinder Grewal
General & Vascular Surgeon, Human Factors & Patient Safety Trainer, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner
Mr Perbinder Grewal Biography 0.01 MBDOCXfile
Opening Address: Delivering Safe Maternity Care
Birte Harlev-Lam OBE and Abbie Aplin Abstract 0.01 MBDOCXfile
Birte Harlev-Lam OBE
Executive Director Midwife
The Royal College of Midwives
Birte Harlev-Lam OBE Biography 0.02 MBDOCXfile
Abbie Aplin
Director, Maternity Reform
The Royal College of Midwives
• the RCM’s role in improving safety in maternity
• how can we ensure safe staffing?
• ensuring freedom to speak up in maternity care
• how do we change culture and practice?
• local Actions for Learning, (LAfL) and Immediate and Essential Actions to improve all maternity services in England following the Independent Review of Maternity Services at Shrewsbury & Telford Maternity Review
• new themes, accelerating progress and moving forward
EXTENDED SESSION: Improving active engagement with the local community through developing your MVP
Zenab Barry Director
National Maternity Voices Chair
National Maternity Voices Council (to November 2022)
Co-chair Chelsea and Westminster MVP (to March 2022)
with Amanda Pike Chair Lincolnshire MVP
• learning from lived experience
• enabling a positive, strengths-based approach with trusting relationships and effective participation and engagement
• the role of MVPs
• the new MVP Toolkit and developing Maternity Voices Partnerships