Upcoming PSANZ Events

IMPACT Meeting/Workshop

A fair go right from the start: achieving equity in pregnancy and early childhood outcomes

PSANZ Policy, Equity and IMPACT Network subcommittees

Speakers/facilitators confirmed:

Euan Wallace, Caroline Homer, Jane Yelland, Cath Chamberlain, Stephanie Brown, Karen Glover, Alice Rumbold, Vicki Flenady, Lynn Sinclair, Philippa Middleton 

Topics include:

• The nexus between safety and equity
• What we can do to make service delivery, policy and research in pregnancy and early life more equitable
• Understanding the sources and causes of inequity for particular groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and immigrant/refugee families

PSANZ SANDA Workshop-Upskilling yourself on fetal movement advice and management and communicating with bereaved parents

Program:  Upskilling yourself on fetal movement advice and management and communicating with bereaved parents

Session 1.  Fetal movement advice and management

10am - 12.30pm

• New Zealand parents’ experiences of fetal movement advice - Vicki Culling
• Australian parents’ experiences of fetal movement advice - Claire Foord
• The effect of mobile application interventions on influencing healthy maternal behaviour and improving perinatal health outcomes - Lisa Daly
• Stillbirth stigma in Australia with focus on fetal movements - Danielle Pollock
• An update on current Australasian research on fetal movements - Billie Bradford
• An overview of  PSANZ fetal movement guideline 2017 - Glenn Gardener

12.30-1.00pm Lunch will be provided for those registering for the full day of the workshop

Session 2.   Breaking bad news: Clinicians communicating with parents

1.00pm - 3.00pm

An interactive workshop led by Dr Vicki Culling

Vicki is a bereaved parent. Her first daughter was stillborn at 10 days overdue – an experience which led her to utilise her skills in supporting bereaved parents and families and educating health professionals.

Vicki is the Director and Principal Trainer of Vicki Culling Associates which provides; a wide variety of workshops for childbirth educators, counsellors, social workers and other health professionals; a consultancy service on how to better support for parents, families and whānau following the loss of a baby or infant; and a series of on-line courses around perinatal loss.

In addition Vicki has worked actively at both the national and local levels of Sands for over ten years.

She was a founding member of the national Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) set up in 2005. She has been involved with the International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA) from 2005-2011, as the New Zealand representative on the Parent Advisory Committee and on the ISA Board. Vicki is currently a member of the NZ Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Consumer Network, and a member of the Ministry of Health’s Maternal Fetal Medicine Governance Board.

Registration:  Is via the PSANZ Congress online registration

Costs: 

Full workshop* (10am - 3pm)  $150 Non-Member, $100 Member and $60 Student.

Morning session (10am - 1230pm) $50 Non-Member, $40 Member and $20 Student

Afternoon session (1pm-3pm)$50 Non-Member, $40 Member and $20 Student

* Lunch is provided for full workshop registrations only. 

PSANZ IMPACT Network Subcommittee Meeting co-hosting with the New Zealand ON TRACK Network

PSANZ IMPACT Network Subcommittee co-hosting with the New Zealand ON TRACK Network

 Venue:  Viaduct Conference Centre

Timing:  Saturday 24th March - 10am to 5pm and Sunday 25th March - 9am -1pm

Program Title:  Embedding Research into Clinical Practice

Our program will include our usual sessions on current clinical trials, future proposed projects and multicentre trial updates. We will be inviting abstract submissions on our program theme, current clinical trials and future proposed projects.

Invited Speakers:  Professors Anna David and Sara Kenyon

Our international speakers will talk about the highly successful UK NIHR Clinical Trial Network and some of the lessons we may learn from them as we seek to further develop our networks and further integrate them into our everyday clinical practice.

Registration:  ​Is via the PSANZ Congress online registration 

Costs:  ​

Saturday only   $150 Non-Member, $100 Member and $60 Student

Sunday only    $100 Non-Member, $70 Member and $30 Student

Both days   $220 Non-Member, $160 Member and $75 Student