Women's health

Cost

Free to ADHB staff and access holders & Auckland Birthcare midwives

Book

KIOSK for staff. 

LMCs please email:  midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz

Available dates for 2025 (subject to availability);

• 29th May
• 26th June
• 24th July
• 21st August
• 16th September
• 9th October
• 4th November
• 27th November
• 10th December

The FSEP Full program runs for 7 hours and provides a solid foundation of information for all clinicians involved in antenatal and intrapartum care. The Full program is structured to cumulatively build understanding. Participants in the Full program also complete the FSEP MCQ assessment at the end of the session. This is our core education program and is suited to most clinicians requiring education or an update in cardiotocography.

The FSEP Full Day Program will take place:

• 1 April 2025
• 05 August 2025
• 21 October 2025

Please apply via email to midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz

The New Zealand Resuscitation Council Newborn Life Support course is:

• For health professionals who provide newborn life support, including midwives and those working in neonatology
• A full day training course to develop your skills and knowledge in providing newborn life support
• A combination of lectures, skills stations, scenarios and assessment

Enhance your learning in a supportive team of midwives, nurses and doctors from maternity and neonatal practice areas.

Presented by: NLS Course Directors; Jo Hegarty, Sarah Bellhouse, Tracy Walker and other NZRC NLS accredited instructors (midwives and NICU NNPs)

Time: 08.00am -4.00pm

Location: Clinical Skills Centre, Level 4, Auckland City Hospital

Cost:

Immediate: $40 for Te Toka Tumai staff and access holders. $80 for others.

Advanced: $70 for Te Toka Tumai staff and access holders. $150 for others.

Course dates 2025

• 16 May - intermediate
• 11 June
• 29 July
• 31 July
• 11 August
• 1 September
• 17 September - intermediate

Time

• Intermediate - 8.30am to 1pm
• Advanced - 8.30am to 4pm

COMBO refers to a study day of 4 hours breastfeeding education combined with 4 hours of another maternity topic, which changes on a yearly basis.

The topic for 2025 is the completion of the Growth Assessment Programme (GAP NZ)

• Fetal growth restriction and pregnancy outcome  
• Customised charts: principles, and clinical implications
• Risk assessment and surveillance: guidelines, algorithms
• Fundal height - standardised measurement and plotting
• Referral protocols – indications for further investigation
• Clinical and practical application – case studies
• Documentation and record keeping - plotting and referral scenarios
• Q&A

The day is from 8.00am to 4.30pm.

2025 topics are:

Morning Session:

4 hours of breastfeeding education 

Afternoon Session:

GAP

Please book the morning and afternoon separately on KIOSK if you would like to attend the whole day. 

Dates for 2025:

• 17 March - Face to face
• 29 April - Face to face
• 20 May - Face to face
• 25 June - ZOOM 
• 29 July - Face to face
• 13 August - ZOOM
• 2 September - Face to face
• 14 October - ZOOM
• 11 November - Face to face
• 17 November - ZOOM
• 16 December - Face to face

Evidence and best practice

• Fetal growth restriction and pregnancy outcome  
• Customised charts: principles, and clinical implications
• Risk assessment and surveillance: guidelines, algorithms

Clinical application

• Fundal height - standardised measurement and plotting
• Referral protocols – indications for further investigation
• Clinical and practical application – case studies
• Documentation and record keeping - plotting and referral scenarios
• Q&A

Presented by: Judith Beattie, Lead educator for GAP NZ

Location: Microsoft teams, link will be sent upon registration

Cost:  Free

Book: GAP NZ diary (external link)

Contact: jbeattie@perinatal.org.uk

Online workshops for 2025

• 14 April - 6 to 9pm
• 12 May - 9am to 12.30pm
• 27 June - 1 to 4pm
• 24 July - 1 to 4pm
• 20 August - 1 to 4pm
• 16 September - 9am to 12.30pm
• 6 October - 6 to 9pm
• 18 November - 1 to 4pm
• 10 December - 9am to 12.30pm

Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training is an evidence based multi-professional simulation training workshop for obstetric emergencies. It is associated with direct improvements in perinatal outcome and has been proven to improve knowledge, clinical skills and team working.

Presented by: The ADHB PROMPT Faculty

Time: 8am to 4pm

Location: Te Toka Tumai Auckland Hospital, Grafton Campus

Dates for 2025 : 

• May 6
• July 30
• October 22

Free to midwives and nurses. $300 for Doctors.

Book on KIOSK (ADHB staff) or email midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz.

Thursday 20 November 

8am to 4.30pm

• Supporting vaginal birth after C.Section
• Working with pain - physiological pain relief including sterile water injections
• Jump in, the water’s fine! A waterbirth refresher
• Midwifery led care
• Perineal considerations

Join us for a day of midwifery wisdom, knowledge and skills to support normal birth.

Free to ADHB staff  - book on KIOSK

Free for LMCs with access agreement. To book email:

midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz

• March 19 2025
• June 19 2025
• October 31 2025

All Registered Nurses practising in maternity settings should attend this study day annually.

Come along to a supportive education day where we will go over a team approach to responding to maternity emergencies. 

All dates are on KIOSK, book under Maternity Emergency Sills for Registered Nurses

Any queries, contact us midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz

Location

• Level 4, Building 1
• Auckland City Hospital
• Grafton

Dates

• 16 May - Modules 3 and 4
• 31 July - refresher
• 4 September - Modules 1 and 2
• 13 November - Modules 3 and 4

Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Day

Updates, tips and tricks from physicians, dieticians and midwives.

Dates: Thursday 14th August 2025

Time: 8am to 4pm

Location: Clinical Education Centre (CEC) L5, B32, ACH, Grafton

Cost: Free of charge for Te Toka Tumai staff and access holders.

Booking: Core midwives book on KIOSK. LMCs and other attendees email midwiferyeducation@adhb.govt.nz

Across New Zealand health professional groups, there is a good level of understanding of the major SUDI risks (e.g. smoking / safe sleeping) but knowledge and understanding of all of current known risks is not consistent due to changing evidence and policy. Raising health professional knowledge levels of SUDI is vital towards supporting whānau/families better understanding that SUDI can be prevented.

SUDI training on Ko Awatea LEARN is from Hāpai te Hauora.

The training covers the following topics:

• An introduction to SUDI prevention
• Connecting and engagement with whānau
• Consistent health messaging
• PEPE messaging

More about SUDI training on Ko Awatea LEARN. (external link)

New Zealand is a signatory to the World Health Organization International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (WHO Code). The WHO Code aims for safe and adequate nutrition for infants by protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding, and ensuring proper use of breastmilk substitutes (infant formula), when they are necessary.

The Ministry of Health is responsible for implementing and monitoring New Zealand’s interpretation of the WHO Code. It does so under two self-regulatory codes of practice:

• Code of Practice for Health Workers (Health Workers’ Code) (Ministry of Health, 2007)
• Infant Nutrition Council (INC) Code of Practice for the Marketing of Infant Formula in New Zealand (INC Code of Practice) (2007)

Learnonline (external link)

Education for health practitioners who provide services within the antenatal and newborn screening programmes.

LearnOnline (external link)is a vocational training resource hub for New Zealand’s community of health practitioners. There is a growing number of courses available, provided by different organisations, for health workers either studying or working in different fields of practice.

5 eLearning Modules through LearnOnline (external link)

• Screening Principles and Practice
• Quality Improvements in Antenatal Screening for Down syndrome and other conditions (QIASD)
• Antenatal HIV Screening Programme (AHIV)
• Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention Programme (UNHSEIP)
• Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme (NMSP).

The NSU antenatal and newborn screening modules have been approved by the Midwifery Council of New Zealand for five professional development points per module.

• Points are awarded after completion of the final assessment in each module with a pass rate of 80 percent 

The first module Screening Principles and Practice must be completed and points allocated before points can be allocated to any of the other 4 modules.

For new staff, the initial BFHI education requirement is 21 hours, including Māori breastfeeding education (1 hour).

During your orientation period you will have some orientation time and education with the team as well as clinical time on the wards when you start.  The hours for orientation/clinical time will add to your overall education total.  All new staff will receive an orientation to the lactation service regardless of where you start work e.g.WAU, Labour & Birthing Suite or in the Community. 

The initial 21 hours of education will include:

• Orientation to the Breastfeeding Policy - including review and revisions
• The importance of breastfeeding
• Acceptable sound clinical reasons for supplementation
• The implications of unnecessary supplementation
• The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
• The protection of breastfeeding including the CODE and subsequent WHA resolutions
• The Artificial Feeding Policy for the Non Breastfeeding Mother and Infant
• The effect of medications administered during labour and birth, on the infant and the initiation of breastfeeding
• Safe and unsafe sleep practice
• One hour breastfeeding for Māori women which incorporates the Treaty of Waitangi
• Three hours of supervised clinical education as stipulated below

The supervised one-on-one clinical tuition includes:

• on the ward in your orientation period
• All practical aspects of positioning, aligning and latching of infant for breastfeeding
• Teaching of hand expressing
• Cup feeding technique
• Safe and hygienic preparation, feeding and storage of breastmilk substitutes

Orientation days for 2025

9th June

23rd September

2nd December

Book in KIOSK

Any queries, contact Tracey Senior TSenior@adhb.govt.nz

Compulsory Ongoing BFHI Education of 4 hours annually offered at Breastfeeding Update. We run 10 sessions per year.

On-going breastfeeding education for level three specialist staff will equate to:

• a minimum of four hours annually,
• one hour of supervised clinical tuition annually over the previous three to four years -  this education is provided at BF Update.

Evidence of your education hours will be recorded on the BFHI data base and certificates will be issued to you for your portfolio of education we provide.  Please keep your certificates as you may be asked to produce evidence of your education hours when we go through our BFHI Accreditation Audit.