Baby Lifeline Training

Our brand new two-day course, 'Governance, Assurance and Improving Quality & Safety in Your Maternity Services,' is now available to book!

Our brilliant Course Directors are Sascha Wells Munro (Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer, ), James Titcombe (Patient Safety Consultant & Co-Chair of Family Voices Group), and Donna Southam (Quality, Safety and Assurance Lead Midwife at University Hospital of Morecambe Bay) 🙌

The course is relevant for midwives, obstetricians & anaesthetists who cover governance and safety.

Key themes include:
❓ What does good look like?
🧠 Problem-sensing for maternity safety
🗓️ Making & implementing effective action plans.

For more information and to book, visit our website (link in bio!).

We look forward to seeing you there!

📢 We are recruiting! 📢

Do you have experience attending out-of-hospital births?

We are looking for experienced & passionate midwives & paramedics to join the faculty for our Childbirth Emergencies in the Community course.

Register your interest using the link in our bio, or email [email protected].

We can’t wait to hear from you!

"The women I have contact with seem to be more relaxed about talking about their mental health with me..."

We received some lovely feedback this week from a delegate that attended our Perinatal Mental Health course last year.

To find out more about our PMH course, book your place in 2023, or read about our course directors Dr Rebecca Moore , Dr Caroline Pontvert & Louise Nunn, visit our website (link in bio) or send us a message!

Our Enhanced Maternal Care course develops skills for those caring for pregnant/postnatal people that may become unwell.

This hands-on training is relevant for midwives & the wider maternity and acute care team.

The course covers:
- Learning from recent guidelines and reports
- Human factors
- Clinical skills including identification, assessment and management of the deteriorating maternity patient
- Signs of cardiac/neurological problems & sepsis
- Invasive monitoring & airway management.

Interested in booking your place, or commissioning a course? Find out more on our website, or via the link in our bio.

📢 We are delighted to announce that our popular "Examination of the Newborn" practical one-day course will be returning in 2023!

The course contains updated content including screening priorities, common clinical problems & recognition of infants at risk 👶

This CPD update course is relevant for midwives, neonatal nurses, trainee doctors in paediatrics, general practitioners (including GP registrars in training) & legal professionals.

Find out more & book via our website: https://www.babylifelinetraining.org.uk/courses/examination-of-the-newborn/
Link in bio!

Our Delivering Excellence in Perinatal Mental Health course is available to book now on our website! www.babylifelinetraining.org.uk (link in bio)

All our CPD courses are based on best practice and recommendations from maternity safety reports.

The latest report found that "mental ill health remains one of the leading causes of maternal death in pregnancy and the first postnatal year."

Our Perinatal Mental Health course develops skills in recognising red flags and communicating with those struggling with their mental health.

Did you join us in #2022?

Last year we delivered 72 training courses for professionals - this equates to 101 days of learning and more than 3,600 delegates!

Our team delivered f2f courses across the UK & we were joined online by delegates from all over Europe.

Our most frequently-run course was Childbirth Emergencies in the Community, which took place 22 times in 2022 (!).

As always, we love to hear from delegates! We were really pleased to receive lots of lovely feedback last year, as well as ideas for developing our training.

We ran new courses (such as our Delivering Excellence in study day), and invested significantly in our course equipment. New additions included two simulation babies.

We’re so grateful to the hard work of our faculty, delegates, student volunteers, advisory panels and our training team.

Thank you all 🙏🫂 We couldn’t do what we do without you, and we can’t wait to work with you again!

We have lots of exciting things to come - bring it on, 2023 💪

To find out more, book your place or commission training, check out our website: babylifelinetraining.org.uk/courses/

Interested in joining us? Get in touch! [email protected]

Pictures:
1. Delegates on our CEC course in
2. Delegate feedback (CEC)
3. Delegates practise neonatal resus on our new Lifecast babies
4. Delegate feedback (Enhanced Maternal Care)
5. Our EMC course taking place in Birmingham
6. Delegate feedback (CTG Masterclass)
7. CEC facilitators on our Train the Trainers day in June
8. Delegate feedback (Human Factors course)
9. Our Advanced CTG facilitator team in Birmingham
10. More neonatal resus!

We’re so excited to use our brand new resuscitation models for the Childbirth Emergencies in the Community course!

These new models will bring realism and new learning to scenarios for births in an out-of-hospital setting.

Today we are running our 2-day Advanced CTG Masterclass online with course director Dr Susana Pereira.

More than 250 delegates have attended our CTG courses in the past fortnight + we've had great feedback 😁🙌

"This is the first CTG teaching that I truly felt made sense."

"Everyone working in labour and delivery should take this course!"

Are you on the course today? Let us know what you think! 🥳💙

Visit our website to find out more and book future courses (link in bio).

As we continue to adapt and change to what this pandemic is throwing at us, it's been brilliant to see so many of you on our courses.

We hope that you all manage to have moments of peace and joy during this festive season, and thank you for everything you do.

See you in 2022!

📢 NEW COURSE: Improving Outcomes for Those With Comorbidities in Pregnancy

We're delighted to announce our new course, devised by experts:

🔹 Dr Anita Banerjee - Obstetric Physician, General Medicine Physician and Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant

🔹 Professor Cathy Nelson-Piercy - Consultant Obstetric Physician

🔹Dr Sarah Winfield - Consultant in Obstetrics with a special interest in Maternal Medicine

The course will take place online, and you can find out more on our website: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/comorbidities-in-pregnancy/

As requested by many, we are holding an course online on 16th July.

It's the only online course this year, and places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

For more information and to book: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/enhanced-maternal-care/

With online training you get instant feedback. Some feedback from delegates *today* as we start to talk about interpreting the trace using fetal physiology:

"This is incredible"

"Mind blown."

"This all makes so much sense, I cant believe we haven't thought about this before"

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/ctg-masterclass/

We are running our first ever Cultural Competency & Safety Workshop online in June!

Student rates are available using code STU30 at checkout, and places on the course are limited.

Book now: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/cultural-competency-and-safety-workshop/

Moving our training online was a huge step for us (as it was for many!).

We've carried out an analysis of the impact on reported quality and effectiveness. We’re delighted that the hard work with our amazing course directors paid off!

Read more: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/the-impact-of-online-learning-on-our-training-courses/

Moving to Online Learning: The Impact on Our Training Courses – Baby Lifeline Training The Impact of Online Learning on our Training Courses By Avindri Chandraharan, University of Warwick Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the training of healthcare professionals across the UK, critical for their Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Despite having ....

As a usually hands-on day we were delighted that our delegates got so much out of the 'Childbirth Emergencies in the Community' course!

We've put a lot of work into our online courses to ensure that they are just as good as the face-to-face ones.

Feedback from today!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Management team at Baby Lifeline Training.

This new role will encompass all the financial and accounting procedures along with business planning and development functions alongside our established management team, Chief Executive and Board members.

Read more and apply: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/vacancies-at-baby-lifeline/

Vacancies at Baby Lifeline – Baby Lifeline Training Baby Lifeline Training is a social enterprise, recognised nationally and internationally for providing high quality, multi professional training in the maternity sector.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Management team at Baby Lifeline Training.

Baby Lifeline Training is a social enterprise, recognised nationally and internationally for providing high quality, multi professional training in the maternity sector.

This new role will encompass all the financial and accounting procedures along with business planning and development functions alongside our established management team, Chief Executive and Board members.

We are a small dynamic team and as we see business grow year on year we require an enthusiastic team player who is used to working in a fast paced environment to ensure we continue to thrive, prosper and evolve.

If you have an accounting background and want to challenge yourself, make an impact and develop your career then we would love to hear from you. Just visit our website https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/vacancies-at-baby-lifeline/ to see the Job Role along with the contact information; we look forward to hearing from you.

No agencies please.

We’re delighted to launch our new course - ‘Delivering Excellence in Perinatal Mental Health’.

🔹 Up to 1 in 5 women will experience a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the year following.
🔹Maternal su***de is the leading cause of death over the first year after pregnancy.
🔹Research by Baby Lifeline shows that in 1 in 4 trusts training in perinatal mental health was not mandatory for any staff group.

The course will enable all frontline professionals to identify, appropriately assess, and manage the care of a woman who may be suffering with her mental health.

To book or for more info: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/delivering-excellence-in-perinatal-mental-health/

MBRRACE-UK: Actions to Save Mothers' Lives

The latest MBRRACE-UK report looking at maternal mortality and morbidity was published today, with some familiar and some new themes and recommendations.

Over half of the 217 women who died may have had a different outcome with better care, and so we can hope that implementing changes will make a difference and save lives.

Head of Research and Development, Sara Ledger, talks about the actions that need to be taken to improve care for mothers.

Read more: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/mbbrace-uk-actions-to-save-mothers-lives/

MBRRACE-UK: Actions to save mothers' lives – Baby Lifeline Training A Blog by Head of Research and Development, Sara Ledger   The day the MBRRACE-UK reports come out is always a mixed day – an opportunity to learn and improve maternity care, but also the reality that these statistics relate to families that will never...

Very welcome news, which we hope will extend to funding and protected time for the NHS frontline to also access high-quality, relevant training.

Baby Lifeline welcomes new steps to improve maternity safety | Baby Lifeline Baby Lifeline welcomes the rapid and positive response to the Ockenden Review recommendations.

Recent reports into maternity services have once again flagged the need for better local investigations.

We are happy to be able to offer our 'Learning from Adverse Events in Maternity Services' course online in March (limited spaces available).

Read more: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/learning-from-adverse-events/

An excellent opportunity for any passionate neonatologists with an interest in improving safety nationally.

Neonatologist for Expert Advisory Panel | Baby Lifeline Baby Lifeline is looking to recruit a dynamic neonatologist to join our Multi-Professional Advisory Panel (MPAP).

This year has been hard for everyone, and we’re hoping for a better 2021.

The pandemic has also given us plenty of food for thought, and we’re excited to see you in 2021 to talk about what you’ve learned as the landscape of the NHS changed rapidly.

See you in 2021, and thank you for everything you do 💙.

Our CTG Masterclass 2021 dates are out!

We have a number of dates online between now and May, and also a face-to-face course scheduled in September 🤞.

To book:

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/ctg-masterclass/

CTG Masterclass – Baby Lifeline Training The course covers the pathophysiology of CTG, NICE guidance, acid-base balance, the technology behind cardiotocography and ST-Analyser (STAN). Book now...

We’re pleased to say that our ‘Learning from Adverse Events’ course will now be available online.

The course is of benefit to all maternity professionals wishing to learn more about investigative processes and safety improvement.

More info: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/learning-from-adverse-events/

We’re so pleased to be able to offer our CTG training to health professionals in an online format.

Despite the pandemic, we know that professionals need to stay up-to-date on key topics to feel confident and safe.

We’ve worked hard to maintain the aspects of the training we care about: expert-led, interactive, reflective learning, and plenty of knowledge!

Book your place: https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/

Our highly-evaluated Examination of the Newborn course is being run online!

It covers all 4 components set out as screening priorities by NIPE. Taught by experts in the relevant specialties (ophthalmologists, orthopaedic surgeons, paediatric urologists & neonatologists).

Book Now:
https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/examination-of-the-newborn/

We are delighted to be able to offer our popular 'Implementing Saving Babies' Lives' study day online for a limited number of professionals.

The day will be interactive, and taught by the experts who put together the Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle Version 2.

A perfect opportunity to learn about the evidence-base behind the bundle, and ask questions about implementing the elements locally.

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/courses/implementing-saving-babies-lives/

We've been working hard recently trying to fit around the current pandemic restrictions, and we're passionate that training needs to continue.

We've made the decision to take a lot of our courses online and will be announcing more over the next couple of weeks.

Stay tuned...

"We owe it to every mother and baby to rigorously and transparently scrutinise the safety of maternity services, which will be in no small way linked to the support staff receive."

Opinion: Stillbirths and neonatal deaths could be avoided with more government investment On World Patient Safety Day it’s important to honour the selfless sacrifices of staff on the maternity frontline. Without safe health workers we cannot have safe patients

NEW BLOG by Head of Research & Development, Sara Ledger, explores the latest MBRRACE-UK report investigating maternal deaths during this pandemic, and key learning points to improve care.

"Rapidly learning lessons when things go wrong has never been as important as it is now. Pandemics by their nature bring new challenges, & if systems are faulty then cracks can widen."

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/recommendations-for-maternity-care-in-the-time-of-a-pandemic/

Recommendations for Maternity Care in the Time of a Pandemic – Baby Lifeline Training Sara Ledger Head of Research & Development Baby Lifeline Training   MBRRACE-UK has published a rapid-report this week which has reviewed maternal deaths during March – May of this year, and in direct relation to care during this pandemic. They have set out recommendations for...

📢 NEW COURSE. Today we are excited to launch our new specialist-led course ‘Healthcare Incident Investigation’ - a ground-breaking course developed with Cranfield University.

The 5-day course combines theoretical teaching & practical sessions & designed to be delivered wholly online.

More on blog:

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/launched-specialist-led-healthcare-incident-investigation-course/

Launched: Specialist-Led Healthcare Incident Investigation Course – Baby Lifeline Training We are excited to launch our newest educational offering – ‘Healthcare Incident Investigation‘. The week-long course has been developed with Cranfield University and designed to take place online in recognition of current COVID-19 teaching limitations. Delegates who have completed the course w...

"Something which seems all the more unjust reading these reviews is that patients who have been harmed by a broken system need to fight to find answers and to try to improve the system for others. This has to improve for the wellbeing of every person being cared for, every professional caring for them, and the healthcare system as a whole."

Latest blog by Head of Research & Development, Sara Ledger looking at today's IMMDS Review
https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/immds-review-first-do-no-harm-by-seriously-listening-to-concerns/

It's Strep B Awareness Month .

Resources by charity Group B Strep Support (GBSS) aim to help health professionals ensure the families in their care are well informed about Strep B. You can download or order for free:
https://gbss.org.uk/professional-resources/

Professional Resources - Group B Strep Support Whether you need information about the latest guidelines on group B Strep during pregnancy, labour and after birth, the key signs of GBS infection in babies, or information leaflets for families in your care, this section is for you. We have resources to support you and the families in your care.

📢 Latest from our Blog: Learning from investigations into maternity services in East Kent.

Investigations into care provided have revealed a wide range of issues, and drawn focus to areas that must be addressed by maternity services across the country.

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/cqc-report-maternity-services-east-kent/

Learning from investigations into maternity services at East Kent – Baby Lifeline Training Learning from investigations into maternity services in East Kent. Investigations into care provided have revealed a wide range of issues, and drawn focus to areas that must be addressed by maternity services across the county.

📢 Latest from our Blog: Recommendations from the ESMiE Confidential Enquiry.

To make midwifery-led settings even safer, we need to understand what happens when things go wrong and learn how to improve them.

Head of Research & Development, Sara Ledger, sets out the key recommendations and improvements to care in midwifery-led settings from ESMiE:

https://babylifelinetraining.org.uk/home/esmie_enquiry_recommendations/

Recommendations from the ESMiE Confidential Enquiry – Baby Lifeline Training Sara Ledger Head of Research and Development   The latest findings and recommendations from the ESMiE Confidential Enquiry look at intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths planned in midwifery-led settings: alongside midwifery units (2015-2016), freestanding midwifery units a...