Join us for The Green Maternity Showcase, an event dedicated to highlighting the remarkable efforts of the nine project teams selected to take part in the Green Maternity Challenge dedicated to creating more sustainable and equitable maternity care. 

The event will feature clinical teams presenting their Sustainable Quality Improvement (SusQI) projects, focusing on key target areas identified through collaboration with challenge partners, carbon footprinting analysis and discussion with members of a lived experience group: valuing people’s time, supporting informed choices, listening to women, access and experience for people who experience worse maternity outcomes, complex pregnancies, infant feeding, and pelvic health and continence.

These projects aim to reduce environmental harm and health inequalities in maternity services. 

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from innovative projects that are transforming maternity care.

The Green Maternity Challenge 2024-25 is a national initiative by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) in partnership with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), and the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition, Funded by the Small Business Research Institute (SBRI) and RCOG. 

Please note: This event will be recorded. Please register to attend if you would like to be sent a link to the recording.

Itinerary

9:00 – 09:10 | Welcome (10 minutes)

9:10 - 9:20 | Introduction to Sustainability in Maternity Care (10 minutes)

Speaker: Maddie de Vicq, Clinical Fellow, Sustainability and Climate Change, RCOG

9:20 – 9:30 | Introduction to the Green Maternity Challenge (10 minutes)

Speaker: Rachel McLean, SusQI Programme Lead, CSH

9:30 - 10:10 | Green Maternity Team Presentations

• 9:30 - Streamlining the multiple birth pathway, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
• 9:40 - Improving breastfeeding support, Great Western Hospital NHS Trust
• 9:50 - Upskilling staff to provide local hip dysplasia screening, NHS Orkney
• 10:00 - Improving access for Albanian women, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

10:10 - 10:20 | 10-minute break

10:20 - 11:10 | Green Maternity Team Presentations

• 10:20 - Streamlining antenatal appointments, Whittington NHS Hospital Trust
• 10:30 - Improving care for women with hyperemesis, Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Hospital Trust
• 10:40 - Improving postnatal hypertension care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• 10:50 - Improving outcomes with perineal massage, South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
• 11:00 - Streamlining antenatal appointments, Imperial NHS Trust

11:10 - 11:20 | 10-minute break

11:20 - 12:00 | Breakout Sessions (40 minutes)

• An opportunity for attendees to meet, share comments, learning and ideas sparked from the Showcase.
• The judging panel will privately deliberate on a winning team

12:00 - 12:20 | Final Comments from judging panel and winner announcement (20 minutes)

12:20 - 12:30 | Event Close (10 minutes)