Food, Pregnancy & me: Findings and Recommendations Showcase

Explore key findings, recommendations and evidence from the Food, Pregnancy & Me study and partners in this interactive session.
Agenda

🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Registration, refreshments, and networking
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Welcome and Food, pregnancy & Me study overview
Host: Professor Nicola Heslehurst
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
The importance of optimising nutrition during pregnancy

Info: Recommendation 1: Provide Folic Acid, Vitamin D, and Vitamin C supplementation free-of-charge to all pregnant people to ensure equitable nutritional support.

🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
The importance of income for food security during pregnancy

Info: Recommendation 2: Raise statutory maternity pay to match the National Living Wage to ensure a liveable income during and after pregnancy 

Recommendation 3: Strengthen the Healthy Start Scheme by widening eligibility, uplifting and regularly reviewing the value of the payments in line with inflation, implementing auto-enrolment using existing welfare data, and enabling use of vouchers online

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch and networking
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Trusted relationships for supporting food security during pregnancy

Info: Recommendation 4: Provide consistency of midwifery care and health visiting care to facilitate the development of trusting relationships with health professionals 

Recommendation 5: Provide funded community-based pregnancy navigators to support access to benefits and entitlements, local services, and well-being resources

🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
What next?

Info: Small group discussions about:
- Who else needs to see these findings?
- What needs to happen next to take these recommendations further?
- Where are the research gaps to strengthen the arguments for these recommendations further?

🕑: 02:50 PM - 03:00 PM
Thank you and event close