Women's Rights in Healthcare 2024
We are delighted to announce our 6th Women’s Rights in Healthcare conference, in London Bridge on Thursday, 22 February 2024.
The focus of this year's conference is young women’s health and, in particular, various biases young women face when accessing healthcare.
To reserve your place, RSVP using the button above. Please specify any accessibility and/or dietary requirements.
To attend the conference virtually, RSVP using the button above, ticking the 'attending via Zoom’ option.
To give you an idea of what to expect, please visit the playlists of our 2020, 2021 and 2022 conferences.
As ever, we will have a panel of fantastic speakers:
Stella Creasy MP: Keynote speaker
Stella Creasy is the Labour and Co-Operative MP for Walthamstow, first elected in 2010.
She has held a variety of positions within the Labour party, first as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham, and then in 2011 as a shadow Home Office Minister for crime prevention, in Ed Miliband’s first reshuffle. She ran for the deputy leadership of the party in 2015, coming second. She is currently Chair of Labour Movement for Europe and has campaigned for a continued relationship with the EU and against Brexit induced parliamentary deregulation.
She is an avid campaigner and contributor to debates. Most notably, in July 2019 she put forward the amendment which proposed that if the Northern Ireland Assembly was not restored by October that Westminster would legalise abortion in the country. Other campaigns include sexual harassment, childcare provision, and MotheRED – a campaign to financially support mums to be selected and elected as Labour Party candidates in the next General Election. She has also campaigned against ‘legal loan sharks’, introducing a Ten-Minute-Rule Bill to cap the cost of credit to avoid extortionate rates and force the Government to tighten restrictions.
Talk title: Young women and birth trauma.
Rebecca is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist and the co-founder of Make Birth Better. She is a perinatal course director at Baby Lifeline. She is passionate about reducing trauma for all people through pregnancy, birth and in the postnatal period and an advocate for listening, kindness and compassion. Rebecca is also a mum which has continually informed her practice over the years.
Talk title: Crazy Talk - a comedian's guide to mental health
Juliette has performed six solo shows, When I Grow Up, Look At Me, Decision Time, Butterfly Effect and Defined, at the Edinburgh Fringe, selling out 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2023. She has won the Argus Angel Award (Brighton Fringe), Spirit Of The Fringe Award (Bedfringe) and Voice Mag’s Pick Of The Fringe Award (Edinburgh Fringe). She has also performed at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Juliette is an ambassador for Rethink Mental Illness. Juliette recently toured her critically acclaimed show No Brainer across UK theatres, supported by Arts Council England.
Talk title: Rebel Bodies: How the gender health gap harms young women
Sarah Graham is an award-winning freelance health journalist and the author of Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution. She specialises in health, gender and feminism, and has written extensively on these subjects for the i newspaper, Refinery29, the Telegraph, Grazia, Guardian, the BMJ and many others.
Talk title: Hormone Health in Young Women - the good, the bad and the ugly
Dr Rebecca Scott is a consultant in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obstetric Medicine at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. She specialises in looking after people with a broad spectrum of hormone problems, and a particular interest in the care of young women and those planning for pregnancy and who are pregnant. Her PhD looked into the role of gut hormones in obesity, and she clinically she is interested in how that affects fertility and pregnancy.
Talk title: How do we improve pregnancy outcomes for women with Diabetes?
Teresa is a Consultant Obstetrician and maternal medicine specialist at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. She cares for women with diabetes in pregnancy and other medical conditions. She chairs her Trust blood transfusion committee, is a reviewer for MBRRACE (Mothers and Babies: Reducing risk through audits and confidential enquiries across the UK) and a Speciality Advisor for the CQC. Teresa was part of the team that undertook the RCOG review of East Kent and returned to undertake a second review in 2020. She was also part of the team that undertook the thematic review of Nottingham maternity services in 2022. Teresa is the maternity vaccination lead for her hospital and works to raise awareness of the safety of the vaccines which are recommended in pregnancy.
Talk title: Gynaecological Cancers; raising awareness.
Dr Adeola Olaitan was appointed as Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist at the University College London Hospital, the gynaecological cancer centre for the North London Cancer Network, in January 2002. She discontinued NHS Clinical work in August 2022 but retained her UCL contract where she is an honorary associate professor.
She obtained her Medical Degree from the University College Hospital London where she was distinguished with a certificate of merit in surgery. As part of her training in obstetrics and gynaecology, Miss Olaitan worked in many of London's leading Hospitals. She underwent sub specialty training in gynaecological oncology at St Michael's Hospital, Bristol.
She is an accredited minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgeon and offers women the minimally invasive approach where appropriate. She is also accredited in colposcopy.
Talk title: Fertility and Career: Can you have both?
Natalie Sutherland is a specialist family law solicitor and Partner at Burgess Mee Family Law.
Natalie spearheads the firm’s modern family department where she deals with surrogacy, assisted reproduction law including donor conception and platonic co-parenting as well as advising clients on the whole spectrum of family law issues.
Natalie is also co-founder of In/Fertility in the City where she co-hosts a podcast and runs events designed to explore the complex relationship between in/fertility and work and how to manage this effectively.
Talk title: 'Mummy you're only 15'
Project Manager - Young Mums Connect at The Mental Health Foundation. Youngest Female Councillor Candidate in 2019. Led the largest youth-led campaign with over 300 young people. Jayde has been seen on National TV front row with Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
She has been featured on Financial Times, BBC, ITV, Victoria Derbyshire, Channel 4, BBC Women’s Hour. Jayde has been recognised and commended by many known UK Politicians for her passion to engaging young people in her community to consider a career in Politics.
Jayde has educated and empowered thousands of young people in secondary schools about the importance of using their voices to speak on the issues that most affect them.
Jayde has actively been working with various non profit organisations, NGO’s, Charities to extend her services in creating a society that spotlights young women's health and mental health.
Talk title: Improving early diagnosis – a constituency case study
Helen Hayes is the Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, first elected in 2015. Helen currently serves as the Shadow Minister for Children and Early Years. Before entering Parliament, Helen was a town planner for twenty years, working with communities to deliver new jobs and homes, and a councillor in Southwark from 2010 to 2016. Helen was previously a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and the Environmental Audit Committee.
How to attend:
To reserve your place, RSVP using the button above. Please specify any accessibility and/or dietary requirements.
To attend the conference virtually, RSVP using the button above, ticking the 'attending via Zoom’ option.
To give you an idea of what to expect, please visit the playlists of our 2020, 2021 and 2022 conferences.