Leslie Altic and Margaret Rogan will present a seminar on ‘Promoting Collaborative Working Relationships Between Midwives and Doulas’. This will take place on Thursday 5th June 2025 at 10:30 via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite.
Leslie Altic
Leslie is a qualified doula and antenatal practitioner and co-founder of All About Birth CIC. She is a mother of 3 and followed the path to birth work after the birth of her last baby in 2013. Leslie is passionate about supporting people to navigate their own journey to birth, making the decisions that are right for them. She also brings this passion to her work as a service user advocate to ensure that the voice and experience of families are at the heart of maternity services.
Over the years she has been involved in guiding, influencing and shaping regional maternity services in NI and most recently was part of Mary Renfrew’s review into maternity services. She is also an active volunteer with AIMS, BICS and Sands, acts as the secretariat to the APG on Women’s Health for BirthWise, chairs the Belfast Trust Maternity Services Liaison Committee and is an Honorary Lecturer and PCEP Forum member at Queens University.
Margaret Rogan
Margaret has been a midwife for thirty-nine years and has held a variety of midwifery posts.
In May 2011 she was appointed as Northern Ireland’s first ever Consultant Midwife.
Margaret is currently employed as a Consultant Midwife & Deputy Head of Midwifery within the
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Her interests include all aspects of intrapartum care with a
special interest in workforce competence, interdisciplinary working, birth choices and personalised
support and care plans
She has detailed knowledge of current maternity issues with highly developed specialist knowledge
in intrapartum care underpinned by theory and experience. Margaret has led the Midwifery Practice
Education Team (MPET) for the last thirteen years and has successfully achieved professional
recognition and gained multiple awards for the Trust.
She is an experienced investigator who also held the role of midwifery, Subject Matter Advisor
(SMA) for the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSIB). She has also held a regulatory role of
Fitness to Practise registrant panellist with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for the last
eight years.