Meetings and Events

This ESPGHAN online conference will compromise a faculty consisting of scientific and clinical experts in the prevention, diagnosis, prediction, and management of Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC) as well as parents to talk about their experiences. The faculty will be internationally recognised experts in their fields. The presentations will consist of state-of-the-art lectures, covering the basic science of underlying mechanisms, along with clinical aspects of prevention and management.

This free, virtual one-day fetal medicine conference will provide an update on many topical areas of fetal medicine. The one-day programme includes talks on our tertiary-level services, including Fetoscopic Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion, open fetal surgery for spina bifida and fetal therapy in multiple pregnancies, incorporating input from patients and charities.

This webinar will provide an introduction to the BAPM Toolkit ‘Optimising Early Maternal Breast Milk for Preterm Infants’. The webinar will outline the Five Perinatal Core Elements to optimise early MBM for preterm babies explained in the toolkit and detail the supporting evidence for the recommendations. We will hear from those that had successes in this area. There will also be a live Q&A at the end focused on supporting those that wish to implement the recommendations in their unit.

This virtual conference will present the findings of the National Perinatal Mortality Surveillance for Births in 2018, National Confidential Enquiry into the Care of Twins and Use of the National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) in 2019.

This virtual conference will present  the findings of the 7th MBRRACE-UK report of Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care; findings of the surveillance of maternal mortality in the UK 2016-18 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2016-2018.

This CPD certified conference chaired by Professor Alex Heazell, Clinical Director, Tommy's Stillbirth Research Centre, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester focuses on the important issue of Saving Babies Lives: Reducing Stillbirth, and implementing Version 2 of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle.  The programme will update delegates on Saving Babies Lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic, with an opening presentation from Professor Asma Khalil, Consultant Obstetricianand Lead, Multiple Birth and Maternal Fetal Medicine Teams, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who will share the findings from her research that found an increase in the incidence of stillbirth during the pandemic compared to the period before. 

This very successful multi-professional study day will aim at exploring a range of topics related to the nutritional needs of premature and sick babies. Following talks from expert speakers, participants will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge to a range of case studies in small multi-professional groups.

This will be the seventh edition of a theoretica-practical course, which is open to paediatricians, paediatric radiologists, neonatologists and sonographers who would like to learn more about neonatal brain ultrasonography.

The twelfth edition of this international course is open to paediatricians, paediatric radiologists, neonatologists, sonographers who would like to learn more about neonatal ultrasonography.

The aim of this two-day course is to improve neonatal neurological education and therefore improve the diagnosis and management of neonates with neurological disorders. In the meantime, the BPNA also has distance learning modules for you to enrol on.

The 11th DIP Symposium aims to highlight the progress of pregnancy – from pre-pregnancy, trimester by trimester, to labor, delivery and post-partum care. Focus will be placed on the prediction and prevention of pregnancy complications – hyperglycemia, hypertension – preeclampsia, preterm birth, NCD’s (Non-Communicable Diseases) and pregnancy, fetal growth and others, as well as the cycle of future NCD’s that begins during the intrauterine life – onto mother and offspring.