National Maternity and Newborn Care Conference
Monday 12 October 2026
Lowry Hotel, Manchester.
 

Join us on Monday 12 October 2026 for the National Maternity and Newborn Care Conference at The Lowry Hotel, Manchester, 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. 

Abstract submissions are now open, with poster presentations invited to showcase service improvement, clinical practice, research or lived experience related to maternity and newborn care in the out-of-hospital setting. To submit your abstract, please click here.

The day concludes with reflection on the journey and future direction of out-of-hospital maternity care, supporting paramedics to build confidence, clinical judgement and compassionate care for women, babies and families. 
 

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