Webinars

FUTURE BSACP WEBINARS

Webinars are a membership benefit of BSACP and are open/free of charge to members. Registration details will be circulated in advance to BSACP members.

 

PAST BSACP WEBINARS

 

Abortion and Mental Capacity

Webinar release date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024

In this BSACP Webinar, Dr Patricia Lohr (Chair of the BSACP Education and Training Committee) is joined by Dr Amelia Schamroth, Dr Livia Martucci, Prof Sheelagh McGuinness and Victoria Butler-Close KC to discuss abortion and mental capacity.

 

Involvement of the Police and External Agencies following Abortion, Pregnancy Loss and Unexpected Delivery: Guidance for healthcare staff (January 2024)

Joint_Involvement of Police Following Abortion & Pregnancy Loss_Guidance for Healthcare Staff

On Thursday, 21 March 2024, BSACP hosted an open access webinar to discuss this joint guidance. You can access it here:

  

Complications of Medical and Surgical Abortions

Webinar release date: Thursday, 14 December 2023

In this BSACP Webinar, Dr Patricia Lohr (Chair of the BSACP Education and Training Committee) is joined by Dr Nabanita Ghosh and Dr Alisa Goldberg to discuss complication of medical and surgical abortions

 

Safeguarding and Honour Based Abuse in Abortion Care

Webinar release date: Thursday, 07 September 2023

In this BSACP Webinar, Dr Patricia Lohr (Chair of the BSACP Education and Training Committee) is joined by Amy Bucknall and Natasha Rattu to discuss safeguarding and honour based violence in abortion care. 

 

Domestic Violence and Reproductive Coercion in Abortion Care

Webinar release date: Thursday, 23 March 2023

In this BSACP Webinar, Dr Patricia Lohr (Chair of the BSACP Education and Training Committee) is joined by Dr Melissa Gardner and Dr Pam Lowe to discuss domestic violence and reproductive coercion in abortion care.

 

Nursing in Abortion Care: What’s New? 

Webinar release date: Thursday, 28 April 2021

This webinar covers a range of timely topics of relevance to nurses working in abortion care including recent Royal College of Nursing (RCN) guidance, training, and service leadership. Key webinar themes include updates on the new RCN guideline and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) Special Skills Module (SSM) for nurses, plus practical aspects of running a service and integrating RCN/FSRH/other new guidance. Brief presentations on each theme are followed by a Q&A session.

Speakers/Panellists

Ruth Bailey, Advanced Nurse Practitioner Sexual Health; member RCN Women’s Health Forum

Rebecca McKay, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Early Pregnancy and Abortion Lead for Peterborough City Hospital; FSRH Abortion Module Guardian; Council member BSACP

Michael Nevill, Director of Nursing and Quality at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS); member RCN Women’s Health Forum

Laura Rutherford, Lead Nurse Emergency Gynaecology Assessment Unit at Peterborough City Hospital; Council member BSACP

Host: Patricia Lohr, Medical Director and Director of the Centre for Reproductive Research and Communication, BPAS; Council member BSACP

 

Meeting Women’s Contraceptive Needs Following Termination of Pregnancy

Webinar release date: Tuesday 8 September 2020

Dr Joanna Speedie, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sandyford Initiative, Glasgow, UK

Dr Speedie discusses the provision of contraception to people seeking abortion care, including how to implement recent recommendations from NICE on immediate post-abortion contraception.

 

Creating Trans-Inclusive Abortion Care: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers

Webinar release date: Thursday 4 June 2020

A.J. Lowik, PhD Candidate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia

Many trans people will need access to abortion care at some point in their lives. This presentation explores why trans people need abortion services, identify some of the informational and institutional barriers that they face in abortion care settings, and discuss strategies for mitigating those barriers. This presentation provides a comprehensive view of the obstacles that trans people negotiate in pursuit of safe, welcoming and competent abortion care, rather than focusing solely on clinical questions and concerns. From the way in which services are described on websites and pamphlets, to booking procedures, security protocols and intake forms, from issues of privacy and confidentiality, to making appropriate referrals, this presentation considers how abortion care is delivered from beginning to end and explores how providers can better serve their trans clients.

A.J. Lowik is a PhD Candidate with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, where their research is focused on all facets of trans people’s reproductive lives, health and decision-making. A.J. has been working in the area of trans-inclusive reproductive justice for over a decade, having written their Masters thesis on the barriers that trans people experience in abortion settings. They wrote a manual for abortion care providers on how to operationalise trans-inclusion, which they use as a teaching tool when they conduct training sessions with providers across Canada and the USA. They are also a freelance trans-inclusion consultant, working with everyone from high school students to yoga studio owners. (www.ajlowik.com).

 

Early Medical Abortion for Beginners

Webinar release date: Tuesday 28 April 2020

Professor Sharon Cameron, MD, FRCOG, MFSRH, Consultant Gynaecologist at the Chalmers Centre and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Professor (Honorary) at the University of Edinburgh 

This webinar is aimed at healthcare professionals who may be just getting involved in early medical abortion care and those wishing to remind themselves of the basics of how medical abortion works, what the regimens are, flexibility of regimens, simplified follow-up, and contraception after medical abortion.

Dr Sharon Cameron is Consultant Gynaecologist at the Chalmers Centre and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Professor (Honorary) at the University of Edinburgh. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. She was Clinical Lead for the 2019 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline on ‘Abortion Care’ published in September 2019. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the World Health Organization Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, President of the International Federation of Abortion and Contraception Professionals (FIAPAC), and Deputy Chair of the Internal Scientific Committee of the European Society for Contraception (ESC). She has over 20 years of clinical research experience in the field of contraception and sexual and reproductive health.

 

Implementing RCOG Guidance on COVID-19 and Abortion Care (2)

Webinar release date: Thursday 9 April 2020

Second webinar offering an opportunity to learn from services leads across the NHS and independent sector about how they are approaching the recommendations in the
RCOG’s guidance on COVID-19 and Abortion Care.

Speakers:

Mr Michael Nevill, Director of Nursing at British Pregnancy Advisory Service

Professor Sharon Cameron, Consultant Gynaecologist and Professor (Hon) at the University of Edinburgh

Dr Caroline Scherf, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare at Cardiff & Vale UHB

Host: Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director at British Pregnancy Advisory Service

 

Implementing RCOG Guidance on COVID-19 and Abortion Care (1)

Webinar release date: Thursday 2 April 2020

Learn from services leads across the NHS and independent sector about how they are approaching the recommendations in the RCOG’s guidance
on COVID-19 and Abortion Care.

Speakers:

Dr Tracey Masters, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the Homerton University Hospital

Mr Jonathan Lord, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Royal Cornwall Hospital and Medical Director of Marie Stopes UK

Mrs Joanne Fletcher, Consultant Nurse Gynaecology at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Host: Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director of British Pregnancy Advisory Service

 

Providing Medical Abortion Without a Screening Ultrasound

Webinar release date: Thursday 7 November 2019

Dr Elizabeth Raymond, MD, MPH, Gynuity Health Projects, New York, NY, USA

Abortion providers commonly require an ultrasound prior to medical abortion to confirm eligibility for the treatment. This test is costly, time-consuming and uncomfortable, and it must be performed by trained personnel using specific equipment. In this session, we will review evidence suggesting that medical abortion can be safely provided without routine screening ultrasound.

Elizabeth Raymond is a Senior Medical Associate at Gynuity Health Projects, where she conducts clinical and behavioural research focused on simplifying medical abortion procedures to increase autonomy and comfort and to reduce cost.

 

The Low-Stim Abortion: Managing Pain and Anxiety in Abortion Care

Webinar release date: Tuesday 4 September 2019

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Dr Carmen Landau (Physician and Associate Medical Director at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, NM, USA)

The setting of abortion care creates expectations of pain and anxiety for many patients. Abortion providers develop a variety of skills to help their patients feel more comfortable, and in this session we will discuss non-pharmacological and pharmacological techniques, including trauma-informed care modalities, speculum placement strategies, paracervical block variations, and other ways to reduce the more challenging sensations common during abortion procedures.

Carmen Landau is a Physician and Associate Medical Director at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA where she provides abortion care in all trimesters. Advanced abortion care, pain management for drug-using patients, and caring for survivors of trauma are her areas of particular interest.

 

What Should We Be Teaching Medical Students About Abortion?

In collaboration with Doctors for Choice UK

Webinar release date: Tuesday 4 June 2019

 

Dr Jayne Kavanagh (Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow and Medical Ethics Lead at UCL Medical School, and a Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialty Doctor in North London, UK)

Dr Jayne 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).

Dr Kavanagh 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.

Webinar recording: https://zoom.us/recording/share/qUV7db8DIfs_aBQnMCXIqdGzSOT6YlVT22lUYM8x5iuwIumekTziM

 

BSACP and ARHP WEBINARS

The four webinars listed below that focus on issues facing abortion care providers in the UK and the USA were jointly produced as the result of a collaboration between the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP).

 

Barriers to Abortion Access as Reported by British Women: An Ongoing Report

Webinar release date: Thursday 7 June 2018

 

Dr Kate Guthrie, FRCOG, FFSRH

Dr Kate Guthrie will report on barriers British women face when attempting to access abortion care. By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. List the four primary reasons women from England, Scotland and Wales contact Women on Web.
2. Describe women who would benefit most from a change in regulation to permit misoprostol at home.
3. Discuss changes you will make in your practice to improve women’s access to in-clinic care.

Dr Kate Guthrie, now retired, was formerly Consultant Community Gynaecologist and Clinical Director for Sexual Health Services in Hull and East Riding, England. Her interests lay in service design and development, and specialist education. Amongst other commitments, she is currently a Trustee of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), Co-chair of the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) and supports Women on Web through the British Helpdesk.

 

Stigma and Abortion Provision

Webinar release date: Thursday 15 March 2018

 

Lisa Harris, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Dr Lisa Harris is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan. Her research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynaecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilisation (IVF), infertility and birth, and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in access to reproductive health resources.

The learning objectives for this webinar are to:

1  Define stigma
2  Identify sources of stigma and their impact on providers
3  Describe how stigma impacts patient safety
4  Discuss a model for managing the stigma of abortion care

 

Women from Ireland/Northern Ireland Seeking Telemedicine Abortions from Women on Web

Webinar release date: 18 January 2018

James Trussell, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

In this webinar, Dr James Trussell discusses characteristics and experiences of women in Ireland/Northern Ireland who self-source medication abortion via telemedicine, and compares the effectiveness and safety of telemedicine abortion versus clinical settings.

 

Outcomes with Simultaneous Administration of Mifepristone and Misoprostol for Early Medical Abortion

Webinar release date: 14 December 2017

 

Patricia Lohr, MD MPH, BPAS Medical Director and BSACP Treasurer

In this webinar, Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director of British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), discusses reduced-interval medical abortion regimens including outcomes from a large cohort study comparing simultaneous dosing with a 24–48 hour interval. As legislative restrictions continue to affect the provision of medically-induced abortion, reduced interval regimens offer an opportunity to protect patients’ access to care but at the expense of greater effectiveness.

After viewing this webinar you will be able to:
1  Identify the primary impact of legislative restrictions on medical abortion care
2  Explain the rationale for reduced interval medical abortion regimens
3  Describe the effectiveness and acceptability of reduced-interval medical abortion regimens
4  Compare outcomes using simultaneous administration of mifepristone and misoprostol to those using a regimen with a 24–48-hour interval between medications.