CCOPMM and VPCC Consent, Ethics & Responsibility Symposium

Are you a Doctor, Nurse or Midwife working in maternity, neonatal, paediatrics, surgery, or anaesthetics? 

Are you a consumer advocate, hospital executive, medical negligence lawyer, or ethicist with an interest in consent?   

Then you should attend the CCOPMM and VPCC Consent, Ethics and Responsibility Symposium.  

Friday, 31 July 2026 the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) and the Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council (VPCC) in conjunction with Safer Care Victoria and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority proudly present the Consent, Ethics and Responsibility Symposium.     

Topics to be discussed will cover: 

• The Future of Consent: Beyond Signatures Towards Shared Understanding.
• Ethics of Access: Outpatient Clinics, Delays, and Justice in Healthcare.
• Ethics & Dilemmas in Paediatric and Maternity Decision-Making.
• High Stakes Moments: Consent Under Pressure in Perioperative & Maternity Care.
• What do Organisations Owe to Patients?
• A Victorian Vision for Consent.    

Hear from a range of expert speakers on topics including rethinking informed consent as a communication process, including ethical issues, consumer perspectives, medicolegal aspects, and the shift from individual responsibility to collective accountability. 

Hear the most recent recommendations and strategies to enhance communication across the sector to help clinicians and health services optimise patient outcomes, improve practice and systems of care to reduce incidents of mortality and morbidity.

Registration from 8:30AM. Program will commence at 9:30 AM.

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