SUPPORT

SUPPORT

SUpporting

Professionals and

Parents

Of stillbirth, miscarriage, termination and neonatal loss through 

Respectful care and 

Training 

About the course

This a multiprofessional UCL-led one-day training course, supported by the bereavement care working group of the International Stillbirth Alliance.

The course looks at a range of areas impacting on the delivery of high quality bereavement care for all stages of pregnancy loss.

Join the course

SUPPORT is intended for any health professional caring for parents who experience pregnancy loss. This includes Consultants and trainees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Midwives, Gynaecology nurses, Bereavement leads, Labour ward leads.

Our next date is: Friday 11th November 2022, 09:00 am - 17:00pm

Why attend?

• Be inspired by expert speakers and gain new insights and skills in the delivery of high quality bereavement care.
• Understand the parental journey through grief This course meets medico-legal training requirements for all clinicians undertaking discussion of post-mortem with parents.
• This course meets the objectives of the RCOG Advanced labour Ward Practice ATSM for the safe management of ante-partum stillbirth.
• Gain a global perspective of the impact of stillbirth.

The range of expert speakers and topics includes:

Evidence-based care after stillbirth

What is good quality bereavement care?

Care in subsequent pregnancies

Hear directly from a parent about her experience

Grief and traumatic experience

Challenges for parents who undergo terminations of pregnancy

Challenges for parents following miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy

The post-mortem and consent explained

The Perinatal Mortality Review tool

The global burden of stillbirth

How can staff care for themselves? 

Feedback from previous course (November 2021)

• The whole day was absolutely excellent. I will recommend any future courses highly to my colleagues.
• I think this was an excellent course which should be attended by all O&G trainees, as we don't have any formal training on how to provide care/support to bereaved parents.
• Great line-up of speakers and sessions, thoroughly enjoyed the day. Extremely informative and interesting - would definitely be keen to attend future courses.
• I generally just feel much more confident in how to care for families who have suffered a bereavement.
• It was very educative. The knowledge gained from the training has improved my confidence in providing care to grieving parents. I will feel more confident and comfortable participating in the provision of bereavement care in y practice as a result of the course.
• Can disseminate knowledge learned during this course to colleagues to improve overall bereavement care throughout our unit.

Course organisers

Prof Dimitrios Siassakos

Dr Zoe Moatti

Dr Bethany Atkins

Carla Logon-Bishop  - Course administrator

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