FINAL REMINDER: BSACP Webinar: 'What should we teach medical students about abortion?' - Jayne Kavanagh - Tuesday 4 June 2019, 6.30pm
3 June 2019
NEW BSACP Webinar: ‘What should we teach medical students about abortion?’ by Dr Jayne Kavanagh
Tuesday 4 June 2019, 6.30pm (BST time) *Webinar produced in collaboration with Doctors for Choice UK
Dr Kavanagh is a Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow and medical ethics lead at University College London (UCL) Medical School, and a sexual and reproductive health specialty doctor in North London. She set up UCL’s flagship widening participation project Target Medicine, and Viva la Vulva, a reproductive rights action group for medical students. She trains medical students to speak about contraception, abortion and pregnancy decision-making in schools. She is chair of the UCL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and a member of UCL’s Preventing Sexual Misconduct Strategy Group and LGBTQ+ Equality Advisory Group (LEAG).
Jayne is co-chair of Doctors for Choice UK and co-founder of the Campaign for Contraception. In 2017 she produced and directed the documentary Kind to Women, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act. She has toured the UK with My Body My Life, a multimedia exhibition that addresses abortion-related stigma, and was the clinical and ethical consultant on I told my mum I was going on an RE trip, a verbatim theatre piece exploring the ethical and practical issues related to young people and abortion. She is a council member of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
This webinar is open/free of charge to members of BSACP or Doctors for Choice UK. You will be asked to indicate which organisation you are a member of at registration.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW TO GUARANTEE YOUR PLACE (maximum 100 attendees) at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yqbtqNyxR1mUHmExZfQVMQ
After your registration has been approved you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar.
Janie Foote
BSACP Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)1243 538106
E-mail: admin@bsacp.org.uk
Website: www.bsacp.org.uk
Scottish Abortion Care Providers (SACP) Conference, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, Stirlingshire, UK, Friday 14 June 2019 – REGISTER NOW!
10 May 2019
The programme for this conference covers a broad range of timely topics including: Efficacy and safety of home use of misoprostol; Improving abortion services throughout Scotland; Rhesus prophylaxis and medical abortion: what’s the evidence?; Improving information given to women with a short animation; Implementing safe abortion in Ireland delivered from general practice; Medical abortion in Northern Ireland compared to EMAH in Glasgow; Setting up self-referral for abortion; Pre- and post-abortion counselling; Abortion teaching for medical students.
Conference programme: Final Draft Programme SACP June 2019
Travel information: Travel Information for SACP June 2019
Application form: Application form SACP Conference June 2019
Cost: £80 for non-NHS Scotland employees.
Prospective attendees should complete/return the application form stating any dietary requirements. Places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. The closing date for all applications is Friday 24 May 2019.
Contact/queries (local organiser): Karen Brown, WoS Network Administrator for Sexual Health & Child Protection & My Body Back Project Co-ordinator (Interim). Tel: 0141 278 2504. Email: karenbrown11@nhs.net
BSACP to Relaunch its Webinar Series – Save These Dates!
8 May 2019
BSACP is relaunching its webinar series in 2019, with the three webinars listed below currently scheduled for release.
Tuesday 4 June 2019 at 6.30pm
“What should we be teaching medical students about abortion?”* – Dr Jayne Kavanagh (Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow and Medical Ethics Lead at University College London (UCL) Medical School, and a Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialty Doctor in North London, UK) [*Webinar produced in collaboration with Doctors for Choice UK]
Tuesday 4 September 2019 at 6.30pm
“The low-stim abortion: managing pain and anxiety in abortion care” – Dr Carmen Landau (Physician and Associate Medical Director at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Thursday 7 November 2019 at 6.30pm
“Providing medical abortion without an ultrasound scan” – Dr Elizabeth Raymond (Senior Medical Associate, Gynuity Health Projects in New York, NY, USA)
Webinars are free to attend for BSACP members. Registration details will be circulated to BSACP members shortly!
IN MEMORIAM – David Paintin, UK Obstetrician-Gynaecologist, Lifelong Abortion Rights Campaigner
27 April 2019
David Paintin, Hon FFSRH, MBChB, FRCOG, was part of the group from the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) in Britain, which he joined in 1963, that supported Lord Silkin and MP David Steel during the parliamentary debates that resulted in the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act. He also worked hard to increase the acceptability of abortion. He promoted innovation and good practice through his involvement with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and by lecturing on the provision of legal abortion to medical students, family planning doctors and gynaecologists throughout the country.
David qualified in Bristol in 1954. He trained under the supervision of Professor Dugald Baird, in Aberdeen, also a strong abortion rights advocate, before becoming a reader in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1963. From 1963 to 1991, based at St Mary’s Medical School, he organised the teaching of medical students and also as an honorary consultant, provided NHS abortion services for Paddington and North Kensington. He was a chair of the Birth Control Trust (1981–1998) and a trustee of the Pregnancy Advisory Service (1981–1996) and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (1996–2003).
He continued to work on abortion issues. He was editor of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for a period, and became Emeritus reader in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary’s Hospital. In a recent book, he reflected on the legal debates that led to the 1967 Abortion Act and its subsequent implementation, and attempts by parliamentarians to undermine and restrict abortion law in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. He died aged 88 on 30 March 2019 after a long illness.
'Impossible to Possible': Abortion Provision in Ireland - TEDx Talk by Dr Mary Favier
18 April 2019
In a recent TEDx talk given at University College Cork (UCC), Cork-based general practitioner (GP) Dr Mary Favier describes how she campaigned for many years to remove the Eighth Amendment, and takes us on a moving journey from Ireland’s past, present and future showcasing the devastating struggles Irish women have faced in relation to abortions in Ireland in the past and the hope which we live in now as a result of the successful repeal of the Eighth Amendment.
Dr Mary Favier is a specialist in family medicine and practices in Cork city; she was a co-founder of Doctors for Choice. She is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). She is a guest teacher on the UCC postgraduate GP training scheme. She has been Chair of Education in the ICGP and is currently president-elect of the ICGP. She campaigned for many years to remove the Eighth Amendment as it was harmful to Irish women’s health. She advocated improving clinical care by introducing early medical abortion provision in a primary care setting in Ireland.
Comments Invited on NICE Draft Guideline on Termination of Pregnancy
15 April 2019
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Draft Guideline on Termination of Pregnancy and its supporting evidence are now out for consultation.
BSACP is a stakeholder organisation for this guideline and as such we have been invited to submit feedback on the draft guideline. BSACP’s Council will submit feedback, and is keen to take this opportunity to include comments from the Society’s members and other interested healthcare professionals within BSACP’s submission to NICE.
View the draft guideline/supporting evidence on the NICE consultation page: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10058/consultation/html-content
Feedback may either be submitted as an individual or alternatively included within BSACP’s stakeholder response (which may ultimately carry more weight). If you wish any comments to be considered for inclusion within BSACP’s collated response, they should be submitted via e-mail to BSACP’s Administrator at the e-mail address below by the deadline of 5.00pm Friday 10 May 2019.
Janie Foote (BSACP Administrator) E-mail: admin@bsacp.org.uk
BSACP Co-Chairs Newsletter Spring 2019
15 April 2019
The first of a series of quarterly Newsletters compiled by BSACP’s Co-Chairs has been published in the website section entitled ‘BSACP Newsletters’. The aim of these regular Newsletters is to update BSACP members and other interested healthcare professionals on the Society’s recent activities.
The Spring 2019 Newsletter can be accessed here: BSACP Co-Chairs Newsletter Spring 2019 12042019
BSACP/RCOG/FSRH Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) Course, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), London, UK, Thursday 5 September 2019
Irish Women Still Travelling to Britain for Abortions
15 March 2019
An article in the Irish Independent reveals that a significant number of women are continuing to travel from the Republic to the UK for early abortions despite the service being available in the Republic since January 2019.
Joint BSACP/RSM Annual Conference at the RSM, London on Wednesday 16 October 2019 - SAVE THE DATE!
25 February 2019
We are pleased to announce that the Joint BSACP/RSM Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 16 October 2019. The conference venue will once again be the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in central London.
The conference programme is in the process of being finalised and will be circulated to BSACP members shortly. It will also be posted on the Society’s website (www.bsacp.org.uk).
BSACP members are entitled to a discounted conference registration fee, and detailed information about the conference and how to book will be e-mailed out directly to all members, together with an invitation to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation.