Register here to join the Green Maternity Challenge Showcase!
Be part of The Green Maternity Showcase, a celebration of innovative projects from nine teams participating in the Green Maternity Challenge. These teams are driving sustainable and equitable improvements in maternity care.
📅 Date: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
⏰ Time: 09:00–12:30 GMT
🌐 Location: Online (via Zoom)
The event will feature:
👉 Presentations on Sustainable Quality Improvement (SusQI) projects targeting key areas, including informed choices, listening to women, addressing health inequalities, complex pregnancies, infant feeding, and pelvic health.
👉 Insights from lived experience groups, carbon footprint analysis, and collaborative work with challenge partners.
This event is part of the national Green Maternity Challenge 2024–25, led by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in collaboration with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG, The Royal College of Midwives (RCM), and the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition, funded by SBRI Healthcare
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)
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