Saving Babies Lives: Reducing Stillbirth and Implementing SBLv3 2024

Chaired by Professor Alex Heazell, Clinical Director Tommy's Stillbirth Research Centre St Mary's Hospital, Manchester & Steering Group Member, Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version 3 this conference focuses on meeting the national maternity safety ambition, to halve rates of perinatal mortality from 2010 to 2025, and implement the Saving Babies Lives Version 3 Care Bundle that was released on 1st June 2023.

The conference will focus on the updated elements of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle with an extended focus on the new Element 6 covering the management of pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who are known to be 4-5 times at risk of losing their baby.

There will be a renewed focus on reduced fetal movement and delegates will be updated on practical advice in the implementation of existing elements 1-5 and monitoring adherence in practice.

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

• Develop a strategy to achieve 50% reductions in stillbirth by 2025

• Reflect, assess your practice and effectively implement Saving Babies Lives Version 3 published in June 2023

• Update your care processes in line with the updated elements of the Care Bundle

• Learn from outstanding practice in implementation of SBLV3

• Implement and understand the rationale for the New Element 6: Management of Pre-existing Diabetes in Pregnancy

• Reflect on national developments and learning from MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits & Confidential Enquiries

• Learn about effective, evidence based strategies for stillbirth prevention

• Implement best practice in Fetal Growth: risk assessment, surveillance and management

• Reduce pre term births and optimise perinatal care

• Improve care and support for women from diverse communities and reduce inequality

• Understand how you identify and improve the management of risk factors

• Identify key strategies for learning from perinatal mortality reviews at a local level

• Understand how you can better support women and families following stillbirth

• Self assess and reflect on your own practice

• Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes