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With thanks,
Ted.

On 19-Apr-09 21:18:47, Jane Sandall wrote:
>  
> Event Announcement
> 
> 16 June 2009 | 09.00 – 17.00 King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins
> Building, Auditorium B5
> 
> King’s College London Symposium – ‘Politics, Policy & Practice:
> Strategies for
> Normalising Birth’ 
> 
> Keynote speaker: Dr Ian Graham, Vice President of Knowledge
> Translation,
> Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Author, Episiotomy: challenging
> obstetric interventions)
> 
> In England, the Government has set out ‘a national choice guarantee’
> that
> by
> the end of 2009 all women, depending on their circumstances, will be
> offered a
> choice of where and how to have their baby, along with promoting
> continuity of
> midwife care and normal birth, all supported by detailed implementation
> plans
> and clinical guidelines. However, the Healthcare Commission review of
> maternity
> services in England (2008) found that only 58% of women were offered a
> home
> birth, only 40% of births were reported as ‘normal’, that 20% of women
> reported
> that they were left alone in labour to the extent that it worried them,
> and
> only 20% of women experienced care from the same midwife throughout
> labour. The
> challenge for maternity services worldwide, is how to make policy a
> reality for
> women and their families, so that we provide humane and safe care
> without
> unnecessary intervention. This symposium has brought together people
> from
> around the globe who have been grappling with these issues to share
> their
> collective experience and wisdom with us.
> 
> Presentations of recent research by Professors Jane Sandall King’s
> College
> London, Debra Bick King’s College London, Holly Powell Kennedy
> University
> of
> California San Francisco, Nicky Leap University of Technology Sydney
> and
> special guest Dr Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian, Choices & Challenges of
> Changing
> Childbirth Research Programme, American University, Beirut.
> 
> Fee: £35 (including refreshments, excluding lunch) Free for research
> participants, King’s College London Department of Midwifery, Women and
> Child
> Health staff and students. Payment must be received in advance. 
> 
> This symposium is the Tuesday following the 4th Annual Research
> Conference on
> Normal Birth at Grange Over Sands (10-12 June 2009).
> 
> All those wishing to attend must register.
> 
> For further information and an application form please contact: 
> 
> Sophie Hart – [log in to unmask]
> 
> Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s College
> LondonJames Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road
> 
> London SE1 8WA
> 
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3545 
> 
> Professor Jane Sandall 
> Professor of Midwifery & Women's Health
> Programme Director (Innovations)
> NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre
> Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
> Waterloo Bridge Wing, 
> 150 Stamford Street,
> King's College, London,
> LONDON, SE1 9NH
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3605
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 3764
> e-mail:[log in to unmask]
> http://www.kingspssq.org.uk/
> See profile at
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/medicine/research/hscr/sandall.html
> http://myprofile.cos.com/sandall
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Date: 19-Apr-09                                       Time: 22:37:05
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