2021 BSACP Conference
BSACP/RSM Conference on ‘Abortion Care: Ensuring Excellence, Promoting Wellbeing and Improving Training’, 7 October 2021
Conference programme for reference: SEQ50 OTD Pack (2)
Speaker Presentations
Lecture 1: How can abortion care providers help healthcare students get the comprehensive abortion teaching they want? – Dr Jayne Kavanagh, Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Education, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital and Dr Corrina Horan, Academic Trainee in Community Sexual and Reproductive Health and Education Representative for Doctors for Choice UK
Lecture 2: New BSACP/FSRH Special Skills Module (SSM) in abortion care – Dr Rebecca McKay, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Peterborough City Hospital and Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Abortion Module Guardian
Lecture 3: Pain relief in gynae procedures – evidence, tips and best practice – Mr Jonathan Lord, Specialist Committee Member for the NICE Abortion Care Quality Standard and Medical Director, MSI Reproductive Choices
Keynote Lecture 4: Clinician wellbeing – Dr Helen Garr, Medical Director Designate at NHS Practitioner Health and General Practitioner, Nottingham
Lecture 5: Safeguarding and teleconsultation for abortion during Covid-19 – Ailish McEntee, MSI UK Named Midwife for Safeguarding Adults and Children, MSI Reproductive Choices and Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Assistant Professor, Biolaw/Co-Director Gender and Law at Durham, Durham Law School
Lecture 6: Kindness as a driver – abortion care in challenging circumstances – Dr Laura MacIsaac, Professor and Associate Director of Fellowship in Complex Family Planning, New York
Lecture 7: Telemedicine medical termination of pregnancy (MTOP): learning from research and founding the charity Abortion Talk – Professor Lesley Hoggart, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University
Lecture 8: Is routine ultrasound scan in abortion care unkind and unnecessary? – Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
Free Communications Presentations
Co-creating abortion care e-learning – Pollyanna Cohen
Repeat abortion – a retrospective observational cohort study before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Glasgow – Helena Young
Abortion stories from African, Caribbean and Asian people in England and Wales – Manna Mostaghim
Treatment adherence and experience of side effects with telemedicine medical abortion at home – John Reynolds-Wright
Contraception use and continuation after telemedicine medical abortion during the Covid-19 pandemic: an observational study – Margherita Vianello
Uptake of long-acting reversible contraception after telemedicine – delivered early medical abortion during Covid-19 – Angharad Dixon
The two winners of the Free Communications Presentation Prize Awards were Dr Helena Young and Dr John Reynolds-Wright.
NB. The abstracts of the six free communications are to appear in the January 2022 online edition of the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health.
Posters
A selection of the posters submitted to the conference are included below.
1 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy choices in the UK – Amelia McInnes Dean BSACP_Poster_Pregnancy_Choices_051021[1]
2 Evaluating the introduction of home based misoprostol for early medical abortion during COVID 19 in Leicester, UK – Felicia Yeung BSACP_FYeung_HomeMisoCOVID_Leicester[1]
3 Choice of method in termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: a quality improvement initiative – Anastasia Foka Choice_of_method_in_TOPFA_Anastasia_Foka[1]
4 Patient experience of pain during manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) under local anaesthetic (LA) in the context of outpatient abortion care – Donna Russell MVA_2021_Poster_A2[1]
5 Abortion care elsewhere: déjà-vu in Germany – Caroline Scherf scherf_BSACP_poster_final[1]
6 Telemedicine and abortion care: the health care professional’s perspective in the South West – Anhya Griffiths Telemedicine_poster[1]