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Webinars: Preterm antenatal counselling is important, is difficult but can be taught. We are facilitating two webinars delivered by clinical experts to support healthcare professionals to develop the skills and confidence needed to communicate with parents to help them make decisions.
Who should attend?
- Neonatologists, paediatricians, obstetricians, midwives & neonatal nurses
- Anyone involved in providing preterm antenatal counselling or supporting parents at time of counselling
- Any grade from registered doctors to consultant
Webinar 1 (9 May 2025)
Presenters
- Dr Katherine Woods, Consultant Neonatologist, Oxford University Hospitals
- Anda Bowring, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Oxford University Hospitals
What’s covered in this session
- Overview of an approach to antenatal counselling including a review of the BAPM framework of perinatal management of extreme preterm birth and strategies to put it into practice
- Managing parental expectations
- Adjusting your counselling if you are at Level 2 hospital and in utero-transfer is not possible (birth imminent/patient unstable).
Further information and booking details
Webinar 2 (16 May 2025)
Presenter:
Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Consultant Neonatologist, Oxford University Hospitals; Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford
What’s covered in this session:
- Focusing on the extremely high-risk patients and approach to counselling including outcomes for comfort care
- Managing parental expectations
- Adjusting your counselling if you are at Level 2 hospital and in utero-transfer is not possible (birth imminent/patient unstable).
Further information and booking details
Webinar 2 is repeated on 21 May – register for this alternative session here.