CTG Masterclass: Train the Leaders
Deepening knowledge and building educational skills to implement change
Course Delivery: The course takes place across 3 study days in total:
- Two days in-person – 21st & 22nd January 2027 – London
- Three half-day online dates:
- 10th February 2027 – 08:00-12:00
- 4th March 2027 – 13:00-17:00
- 17th March 2027 – 18:00 – 20:00
Course Fee: £1950 per person
Relevant for
Fetal monitoring leads, labour ward leads, obstetric leads and midwives in charge, as well as those who teach CTG interpretation locally and nationally.
A good existing knowledge of fetal physiology is compulsory for this course.
If you’d like to join us for this course, we’d love to hear from you! Because it’s a specialist programme, we’ll ask for a little information to make sure it’s the right fit for your needs. Simply click “Apply now” below to get started and we’ll be in touch.
If you have any questions at all, just drop us an email at training@babylifeline.org.uk – we’re here to help!
Aims and Objectives
This course aims to:
- Deepen understanding of CTG trace interpretation in complicated clinical scenarios
- Explore change implementation, quality improvement, and overcoming barriers to change
- Build educational skills so that knowledge can be shared locally
- Build a network of colleagues to foster widespread improvement.
Course Content
This highly interactive course includes sessions, case discussions and group work focussed on:
- Deeping knowledge and confidence: using fetal physiology to interpret the CTG trace, particularly in complex clinical scenarios
- The System and the CTG
- Human Factors and investigations
- Understanding the medico-legal perspective
- Exploring effective leadership
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Educational skills: adult learning strategies and facilitating multi-professional CTG training days
- Implementation science and quality improvement
- Overcoming barriers to change
- ‘From floor to board’ – pitching to the board
- Case discussions
The Need For Training
There has been a well-documented need for improvements to CTG interpretation for decades to improve neonatal and maternal outcomes. For several years, issues with fetal monitoring have been identified as a leading contributory factor in reports and investigations which look at avoidable deaths in intrapartum care.
The Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (version three) recommends effective fetal monitoring during labour as one of its key elements to improve outcomes nationally, and the Ockenden Report listed the need for a lead fetal monitoring midwife and obstetrician in all maternity services as one of the Immediate and Essential Actions.
What do our delegates think?
“The combination of the faculty and the participants on the course built a wonderfully inspiring environment and reignited a passion for education and improvement that is sometimes hard to maintain when working in challenging circumstances. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be part of it.”
“Fantastic two-day study day. Thank you Baby Lifeline for facilitating, I was so pleased my trust paid for the course for me. Not only is Susana an absolute expert but she is able to deliver and teach in a way that is so inspirational and informative. Faultless.”
“Exceptionally good training programme.”
