Agenda item

 

09:00 – 09:40

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 1 – Holly Martin Stillbirth Research Fund

          Isobel Martin

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 2 – Sands

Janet Scott, Research and Prevention Manager

Shirley Gittoes, Trustee and Vice Chair of Sands Welsh Network

 

09:40 – 10:20

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 3 – National Childbirth Trust

Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Adviser

Marilyn Wills, Policy Adviser

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 4 – International Stillbirth Alliance

Prof Gordon Smith

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 5 – Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

Dr Alexander Heazell

 

10:20 – 10:30 Break

 

10:30 – 11:10

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 6 – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Mr Bryan Beattie

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 7 – West Midlands Perinatal Institute

Professor Jason Gardosi, Director

 

11:10 – 11:50

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 8 – Royal College of Midwives

Julia Chandler, National Officer

Stuart Bonar, Public Affairs Officer

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 9 – BMA Wales 

Dr Mark Temple, Chair – Welsh Committee of Public Health Medicine

Mr Phil Banfield, Member of BMA Welsh Council

 

11:50 – 13:00 Lunch

 

13:00 – 13:40

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 10 – Welsh Government

Dr Jean White, Chief Nursing Officer

Polly Ferguson - Women's Reproductive Health 

Dr Heather Payne - Senior Medical Officer (Maternal & Child Health)

 

13:40 – 14:20

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 11 – Public Health Wales

Dr Siobhan Jones, Consultant in Public Health/ Associate Director of Public Health

HSC(4)-19-12 Paper 12 – All Wales Perinatal Survey

Dr Shantini Paranjothy

 

14:20 – 15:00

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 13 - Cwm Taf Health Board

Angela Hopkins Director of Nursing

HSC(4)-19-12 paper 14 – Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Fiona Giraud, Associate Chief of Staff for Women's Services

 

2.1 The witnesses responded to questions from members of the Committee on stillbirths in Wales.

 

2.2 Siobhan Jones agreed to establish if Public Health Wales has undertaken engagement with ethnic minority communities on the issue of stillbirths, and provide examples if so.