Site visits

Hvidovre Hospital: Early Labour Care in a Hospital Setting 

What: Visit the Early Labour Care Section, Labour Ward, Hvidovre Hospital

When: Sunday, May 25, 2025, 15:00-17:00

Since 2022, Hvidovre Hospital has been committed to enhancing care for women and their partners in early labour. Recognising that many families feel uncertain about handling early labour at home, we have focused on personalised care through:

• Tailoring the hospital environment to support birthing women and their companions.
• Advancing midwifery practice by cultivating competencies and supportive attitudes in early labour care.
• Empowering women to decide when they need hospital support and whether to stay during early labour.
• Our interdisciplinary work involves leadership, organisational strategies, ongoing education, and research.

This visit will offer a guided tour of the Early Labour Section, insights into our change processes, and a chance to discuss ways to strengthen early labour care across different settings.

Herlev Hospital

What: Visit the Unit for Perinatal Loss, Herlev hospital

When: Sunday, May 25, 2025, 15:00-17:00

In 2022, Herlev Hospital opened the Clinic for Pregnancy & Loss, which is located separately in a part of the hospital—away from the general maternity ward. The clinic receives patients experiencing late miscarriages and prenatal losses from week 12 to week 42. Midwives, nurses, and doctors work side by side to provide the best possible support to this patient group in a vulnerable situation.

The clinic is equipped with a standard delivery room and two combination rooms, where patients can both give birth and be admitted before and after delivery. Additionally, the clinic features spacious common areas where families can receive visitors and say a peaceful goodbye. The department employs dedicated midwives & nurses with specialized training in the psychological challenges following pregnancy loss and offers follow-up conversations after hospitalization.

The visit includes a guided tour, which also covers our general maternity clinic. Our staff will be present to facilitate discussions about our experiences with having a shared department that offers diverse options for this highly varied patient group.

Midwifery Education, University College Copenhagen

What: OPEN HOUSE at the University College Copenhagen, Sigurdsgade 26, 2200 Copenhagen N

When: Monday, May 26, 2025, 18:00

A great opportunity to join us for insights and discussions of the Danish Midwifery Education Program – a direct entry education lasting 3½ years with 50 % of clinical practice.
Snacks and drinks will be served, while having the opportunity for exchange of experiences and small talk with students and teachers

PROGRAM Insights into the structure of the education Experience our simulation and workshop facilities Gain insight into students’ critical reflectiveness regarding midwifery research Examples of didactic considerations on how students learn Meet students for different semesters Sign up deadline: 01/05/2025 (Please note that a minimum 30 attendees must be registered for the visit to take place)

Rigshospitalet – Mary Elizabeth's Hospital

What: Experience the Future of Birth and Care

When: Sunday, May 25, 2025, 14:00-15:00 and 15:00-16:00

(Meeting spot: Main entrance Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9 (at 13.45 early visit, or 15.00 late visit)

Experience the Future of Birth and Care

Step inside Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital — and into the future of maternity and pediatric care.

Join us for a guided site visit to a hospital unlike any other. Designed to become a world-leading facility for pregnant women and children, Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital offers an exclusive look at a bold vision in the making.

Merging clinical excellence and cutting-edge research with a playful, family-centered ethos, the hospital is designed to feel more like a home than a traditional medical facility.

On this behind-the-scenes tour, you will visit key areas of the Obstetric Clinic and gain insight into a facility that spans seven floors and is set to open in summer 2027. Although still under construction, the tour provides a rare opportunity to see how architecture, innovation, and human-centered care are coming together to redefine maternity and pediatric healthcare.

You will also hear the vision behind Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital — and how it aspires to set a new global benchmark for care at life’s most vulnerable and transformative moments.

Your guides for the tour:

• Gitte Dahl, Project Manager
• Lone Sillesen, Project Manager
• Hlin Mogensdottir, Deputy Chief Midwife & Change Management Lead

We look forward to welcoming you to the birthplace of the future!