BAPM Annual Conference 2025: Transition - leading together to improve newborn care

Join colleagues from across the UK and beyond for the BAPM Annual Conference 2025. This year, we’re coming together in Cardiff and online to explore the theme of Transition: leading together to improve newborn care. 

With a packed programme of cutting-edge research, expert insights, and powerful real-world perspectives, this two-day event offers a unique opportunity to learn, reflect, and shape the future of care for babies and their families. Whether you're attending in person or virtually, we invite you to be part of the conversation that is driving perinatal innovation forward.

Location: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff and Online
Date: 8-9 September 2025

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Topics

• Evidence-based neurodevelopmental care: past present and future 
• Early enteral feeding (FEED 1 trial results) 
• Oral feeding on non-invasive ventilation and avoiding oral aversion  
• Data-driven approach to inform national guidance for the management of babies born 22 weeks-24 weeks: The revised BAPM Extreme Preterm Framework / counselling resources to support, outcomes 2 years
• 22 week Sweden Experience: focussed on respiratory management 
• Interdisciplinary approach to improving long-term respiratory health in preterm babies (BPD follow up programs international perspective)
• Transitioning from NICU to Paediatric services
• Transition: a parent’s perspective 
• Follow up programs: what makes sense?
• Safe by design, safe by choice
• Use of POCUS in a collapsed or deteriorating neonate
• Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) findings and learning 
• Patient safety: Speaking truth to power 
• Neuroprotection strategies for term and preterm: Update on recent advances
• Management of infant with grade 4 IVH and post haemorrhagic hydrocephalus: An update  and the UK-ENLIVEN trial
• Fetoscopic latest advances - spina bifida and FETO for CDH

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The event will also include

• The British Association of Perinatal Medicine Annual General Meeting.
• The 2025 BAPM Gopi Menon Awards.
• Presented Abstracts. (Submissions closed 29 June)

BAPM Annual Dinner

Join us for an evening of great food and great company at the BAPM Annual Conference Dinner 2025. 

The dinner is an excellent opportunity to network and socialise with colleagues in an informal setting.

Venue: Kuku Cardiff - Park Plaza Hotel.
Date: Monday 8 September from 19:30 - Late. 
Tickets: £50 including a welcome drink, 3-course meal, DJ and dancefloor.

Tickets for the dinner can be added when booking your conference ticket. If you have already booked your conference ticket and would now like to add a booking for the Annual Dinner, contact Lucy at CFS Events [email protected]

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Group Bookings 

If you would like to make a group booking, a 10% discount is available on combined bookings of 'in person' tickets over £500. Please contact [email protected] for more details.

Trust and group booking deadline: Friday 8 August.

Registration for the BAPM Annual Conference is being administered by CFS Events.