Photo opportunity 10.45am, Friday 25 October, Business Learning Centre, Halbeath Road, Dunfermline.
Leading the way in nursing and midwifery - the University of Dundee will explore how midwives can deliver better care and advice to pregnant women with HIV and substance abuse problems at a conference in Dunfermline tomorrow.
Fife has one of the highest diagnosis rates of sexually transmitted diseases in Scotland. Midwives are particularly concerned about expectant mothers who have both HIV and substance abuse problems. With presentations from experts they will discuss the best way to advise these women on child birth and child care, and the best place to deliver this advice.
Miss Ann Jarvie CBE, Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland will open the conference and welcome speakers from Glasgow, Southampton and King's College London.
The midwives will also be examining the practice of ventouse - a suction cup for delivering babies to mothers who are too fatigued or when the baby is too distressed. The conference will look at the advantages of training midwives to deliver babies in this way.
As well as practical initiatives, the conference will focus on the new consultant midwife appointment in Scotland and assess the extra and expert level of care that a consultant midwife provides.
By Jenny Marra, Press Officer 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk