8 October 2026, 9.00AM - 4.30PM
Address: voco Belfast, The Gasworks, 3 Cromac Pl, Belfast BT7 2JB
If you have queries about an event please email events@rcm.org.uk
Conference fees includes 2 course lunch and refreshments
Programme
| Time | Session |
| 09.00-09.15 | Registration, tea and coffee |
| 09.15-09.25 | Welcome, Clea Harmer, CEO Sands |
| 09.25-09.35 | Holding Families Through Loss: A Shared Commitment to Bereavement Care |
| 09.35 ā 10.15 | From Personal Grief to Public Change: Turning loss into action |
| 10.15 ā 11.15 | Bereavement care in 2027: policy, practice and political priorities |
| 11.15-11.30 | Tea/coffee/exhibition |
| 11.30 -12.00 | Supporting others starts with you: psychological safety in the workplace |
| 12.00-13.00 | Practical sessions
1.Ā Ā Ā Ā Memory Making in Theory 2.Ā Ā Ā Ā Practice Communicating in Difficult Circumstances |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch/Exhibition |
| 14.00-15.00 | Practical sessions repeated
1.Ā Ā Ā Ā Memory Making in Theory 2.Ā Ā Ā Ā Practice Communicating in Difficult Circumstances |
| 15.00- 15.45 | Bereavement care in TFMR cases |
| 15.45 ā 16.15 | From pathway to practice: A Shared Vision, A Sustainable Future |
| 16.20-16.30 | Close, Gill Walton, CEO & Chief Midwife, The Royal College of Midwives |

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