13 November 2025, 8.00AM - 4.00PM
until 13 November 2025, 4.00PM
In person
Address: Surgeon’s Quarter, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DH
If you have queries about an event please email events@rcm.org.uk
Following last year’s inspiring SMiLe conference, we are bringing you another incredible event this year where the key theme for day is ‘by your side’.
Our conference team has worked hard to curate a programme that highlights key initiatives and innovations that are important to our community across Scotland—topics we know you’ll be eager to explore.
Delegates will have the opportunity to join the workshop or flash talk session during the lunchtime break but must book workshop/flash talks in advance. Please select from these talks.
Programme
| Time | Session |
| 8.45 | Registration |
| 9.15 | Welcome
Gill Walton, Chief Executive Officer, General Secretary and Chief Midwife, Royal College of Midwives |
| 9.20 | How does the intervention of midwifery make a difference to lives of women and families in Scotland (RCM Manifesto)
Jaki Lambert, Director Royal College of Midwives Scotland |
| 9.30 | Focus for the day – strengthening midwifery in Scotland
Justine Craig, Chief Midwifery Officer, Scottish Government |
| 9.45 | National Maternity Care Standards: what do the standards mean to you?
Fiona Wardell, Standards and Indicators Team Lead, Healthcare Improvement Scotland |
| 11.30 | Tea/coffee break with exhibition |
| 11.50 | Workshops/flash talks
Workshop – Supporting clinical excellence in perineal repair Sara Kindberg Adelskov, Midwife, PhD and Global expert in perineal care and online education This resource contains the full flash talk schedule |
| 12.30 | Lunch and exhibition |
| 13.45 | Midwifery in Scotland: Making a Difference and Q&A session
Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care |
| 14.15 | Celebrating success
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| 14.30 | How to support midwives supporting women’s individualised choice (Draft Framework for Scotland)
Justine Craig, Donna Brough, Lisa O’Hare, Consultant Midwife, NHS Tayside and Chair Scottish Consultant and Clinical Research Active Midwives Network and Maria Velo Higueras, Midwifery lecturer Robert Gordon University |
| 16.15 | Key things to take away/closing remarks/evaluation |
| 16.30 | Close |
All available places have now been filled, and we are currently operating a waiting list. If you would like to join the list, please complete this form using the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/NTVBDvuNvu
Please note that submitting the form does not guarantee a place at the conference. Should a space become available, we will contact individuals on the waiting list in the order their submissions were received. We appreciate your understanding.
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