Designed specifically for paramedics and midwives working in out–of–hospital care.
This one-day event brings together frontline paramedics, midwives, national clinical leaders and service users to explore the realities of maternity and newborn care in the out–of–hospital setting. The programme combines powerful lived-experience accounts with national updates, evidence-based guidance, and scenario-focused learning relevant to everyday paramedic practice.
Across the day, delegates will hear from service users and crews involved in complex maternity presentations, alongside national updates from senior clinical leaders. Sessions explore health inequalities, women’s choices, safeguarding, and the clinical and professional challenges faced by clinicians attending obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
Alongside the main conference stream, rotating skills and theory sessions allow paramedics to focus on high-risk, low-frequency scenarios including postpartum haemorrhage, bleeding in pregnancy, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, shoulder dystocia, breech birth, cardiac arrest in pregnancy and out-of-hospital newborn life support. Dedicated sessions also cover resuscitative hysterotomy, urgent care maternity presentations, and emerging updates from national care bundles and JRCALC.
Cost: Your ticket will be funded by SWAST CPD. Please note: We are unable to cover the cost of travel and accommodation expenses.
Eligibility: Open to all staff. Unfortunately, we’re not able to offer tickets to undergraduate students. However, if undergraduates are a CoP member, they can benefit from reduced prices.
Full details: Visit the event webpage here. *
*unless you are self-funding, please only book your ticket via SWAST CPD – we will not be able to reimburse any tickets purchased direct with CoP.
Booking: This event is open to expressions of interest – we aim to purchase tickets for all (up to our capacity), however this may be determined by availability at time of booking. As turnaround for this will be tight, there may not be time to double check if you are still able to attend. Therefore, we ask that you only apply if you can commit to the date(s) & ticket type that you have requested. Please only confirm your travel plans once you have heard from us.
Location: Lowry Hotel, Manchester
Date: Monday 12 October 2026
Time: 08:30 – 16:30
Please note we are unable to cover the cost of accommodation and travel expenses.
This is expression of interest only – although we hope to purchase tickets for all, it may be determined by availability at time of booking. However, we will go ahead and purchase your ticket if we’re able to. Therefore, please only express your interest if you are able to commit to attending.
Complete the form below to express your place.
Deadline: Monday 27th July 2026, 9am.
Once this deadline has passed it won’t be possible to add any more tickets to the order.
The protected characteristics monitoring form is separate to the booking button above; completion is optional & anonymous. We ask for information on your ‘protected characteristics’ in order to help us monitor our performance on equality.
If you have already completed this form since April 2026 & nothing has changed, there is no need to complete again.