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This conferences focuses on the important issue of Saving Babies Lives: Reducing Stillbirth, and implementing Version 2 of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle and accelerating action to achieve 50% reductions in stillbirth by 2025. The stillbirth rate in the UK is high relative to other similar European Countries, it has been demonstrated that the implementation of key interventions can lead to reductions in the stillbirth rate in line with the national ambition to reduce the number of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 50% by 2025. The conference will also update delegates on Saving Babies Lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The conference will also include sessions focusing on reducing inequality and improving care for mothers from diverse communities, learning from MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies, Reducing Stillbirth as a result of incidents during labour and Learning from perinatal mortality reviews at a local level.
“Meeting revised NHS target of 50% reduction in stillbirths by 2025 requires much more work”
“The incidence of stillbirth was significantly higher during the pandemic than the pre-pandemic period in a hospital in the UK… Those findings were based on pregnancy outcomes measured at St George’s University Hospital in London in two periods: one, from 1 October 2019 to 31 January 2020 (the pre-pandemic group), and the other from 1 February 2020 to 14 June 2020 (the pandemic group).The incidence of stillbirth in the pre-pandemic period was 2.38 per 1000 births compared to 9.31 per 1000 births in the pandemic period. The authors note none of the pregnant women who experienced stillbirth had symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, nor did the postmortem or placental examinations suggest SARS-CoV-2 infection. ”
“In the UK, around 2,900 babies are stillborn every year and there are nearly 60,000 premature births. There is wide variation in stillbirth and premature birth rates throughout the UK. This is not due to differences in the characteristics of local populations or a lack of research or clinical guidelines, but is instead a result of variation in the way that guidelines are implemented locally.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to deliver best practice in the prevention of stillbirth
- Reflect on the Lived Experience of losing a baby through stillbirth
- Explore the changes outlined in version 2 of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle
- Update your care processes as a results of the Covid-19 pandemic including working to support pregnant women during Covid-19
- Learn from outstanding practice in delivering the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Version 2 and Each Baby Counts
- Reflect on national developments and learning from MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK
- Improve the way you investigate and learn using the National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool
- Develop your skills in the Effective Implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle
- Understand how you identify and improve the management of risk factors
- Identify key strategies for learning from perinatal mortality reviews at a local level
- Ensure you implementing the latest evidence to reduce Stillbirth as a result of incidents during labour
- Understand how you can better support women and families following stillbirth
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
