AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1
By the AIMS Campaigns Team
The British Intrapartum Care Society (BICS) was initially set up in 2018 by a group of obstetricians but is for anyone involved in intrapartum care including obstetricians, anaesthetists, midwives, doulas, GPs and neonatal specialists, as well as service users.
AIMS attended the 2-day conference, which was to share research and learning and to promote standardised best practice for intrapartum and maternity care throughout the UK. There were oral presentations, workshops and opportunities for networking at a conference dinner.
AIMS was represented by 3 volunteers who displayed a poster, designed by our own Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) group, titled ‘AIMS Campaign for Physiology-Informed Maternity Services’. They also had a stand set up where attendees were able to come and see what AIMS was all about, read some of the materials available and chat about using our resources or volunteering for AIMS.
The conference was a fantastic opportunity to not only attend the various presentations and participate in the workshops, but also to enable AIMS volunteers to network with other birth workers across the country and promote the work of AIMS.
AIMS volunteer, Jo Dagustun (on the left), with a conference delegate, sharing the Maternity Continuity Network's poster. Jo is also a co-creator of the AIMS poster.
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