10 June 2025, 09.00-16.00
In person
Venue: VOCO Hotel, Belfast
Address: 3 Cromac Place Belfast BT7 2JB
If you would like to book onto an event please email events@rcm.org.uk
Shared bereavement – diverse pathways of grief
Join us at our joint RCM/SANDs conference where we look at the journey through pregnancy loss, baby bereavement, the needs of parents navigating this path and the compassionate care delivered by the maternity and wider healthcare team.
Conference programme
| 09.00 | Registration, tea and coffee |
| 09.15 | Welcome – Cleo Harmer, SANDS CEO |
| 09.30 | Hearing from bereaved family members |
| 10.15 | National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP) NI
Melissa Crockett, NBCP Project Manager NI, Sands |
| 10.45 | Tea/coffee/exhibition |
| 11.10 | The role of the Pathologist in the investigation of infant death
Dr Caroline Gannon, Consultant Paediatric Pathologist, BHSCT |
| 12.00 | Workshops
1) Caring for staff – Stephen Hamilton, Psychiatric Nurse/teacher 2) Healthy Healing (caring for bereaved mothers) – Laura Nelson, Strong Mums |
| 13.00 | Lunch/exhibition |
| 14.00 | Workshops repeated |
| 15.00 | Caring for Black & Asian communities
Madhuri Bedi, Bereavement Support and Outreach Co-ordinator for South Asian Communities, Sands |
| 15.30 | Caring for same sex couples
Erin Sharkey |
| 16.00 | The impact of bereavement suites in HSC Trusts
Nikita Anderson, Bereavement Midwife WHSCT and Melissa Crockett, NBCP Project Manager NI, Sands |
| 16.15 | Close – Gill Walton CBE, RCM CEO & General Secretary |
| 16.30 | Conference ends |
Tickets
Open to all midwives, MSWs, students, neonatal nurses, children’s nurses, gynae nurses, Obstetric staff & healthcare workers.
Delegate fees includes 2 course lunch and all refreshments
The RCM website is published by The Royal College of Midwives. Midwives magazine, Evidence Based Midwifery and Midwives Jobs are published by Redactive Publishing Ltd on behalf of The Royal College of Midwives.
The Royal College of Midwives, a company limited by guarantee, registration number 30157. The Royal College of Midwives Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registration number 1345335. A charity registered in England & Wales under registration number 275261. RCM Trust Trading Company ltd, registration number 5399453.
We use marketing cookies to help us improve the relevancy of advertising campaigns you receive.
Royal College of Midwives uses cookies for website functionality purposes. For more information, please review our privacy notice or review the settings tab.
