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Global analysis of neonatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic – a healthcare providers’ perspective
With COVID-19 disrupting neonatal health systems globally, a group of experts undertook a thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ experiences using a disseminated online survey. Results show high levels of stress on healthcare providers, disruption of newborn care practices, and lack of guidelines regarding preterm newborns and babies with low birthweight (LBW) during the pandemic. There is an urgent need to protect life-saving interventions. The implementation of the Every Newborn Action Plan in 2014 by…
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EUPATI welcomes a new fellow: congrats to Livia Nagy
The European Patients’ Academy (EUPATI) was established in 2012 as a pan-European project. It is a programme that provides education and training to patients and patient representatives to increase their capacity and capability to understand and meaningfully contribute to medicines research and development (R&D), and to improve the availability of medical information for patients and other stakeholders. It does so by conducting its established Patient Expert Training Programme which has, until…
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Preterm birth – how can communication be improved with parents?
Shock, trauma, grief, vulnerability, worry – these are just a few words to describe how parents of preterm born babies feel when faced with the often unexpected situation of the early birth of their child. Add to this the need to make sometimes urgent decisions about the future of an early term baby – and this often does not make for fluid and smooth communication between parents and the medical professionals in charge of the care of their baby. Such…
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Supporting Kangaroo Care across Ukraine
We want to take the opportunity to congratulate our partner parent organisation in Ukraine, “Ranni Ptashky – Early Birds” on another successfully completed project to improve the situation of preterm born babies in Ukraine. Last year in November, “Ranni Ptashky” partnered with Kimberly-Clark Ukraine to use the global momentum around World Prematurity Day 2020 for positive change and improve the situation in NICUs across Ukraine. Kimberly-Clark Ukraine sold nappies from TM Huggies, donating 5 Ukrainian Hryvnia (HUA) per package to…
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Paediatric clinical trials: industry and non-industry bringing different strengths together
Clinical trials are an essential part of advancing knowledge and improving healthcare worldwide. Advances in paediatric research across the globe to improve the lives of babies, children and young people have dramatically reduced rates in morbidity and mortality and increased the quality of life, for example, reducing sudden infant death, increasing the life expectancy for children with thalassemia, cystic fibrosis etc. Clinical trials within the paediatric population can be conducted as…
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Making infant- and family-centred developmental care a reality – constructions for a family room well underway at Dritter Orden hospital in Munich
Implementing infant- and family-centred developmental care at hospitals not only depends on the staff’s support of more inclusive practices. It also requires physical changes in how buildings are constructed and how rooms are partitioned and furnished. These changes can be fairly costly and often take time to implement because financial and architectural challenges must be considered and negotiated first. This is why we are delighted to report that the Munich hospital Dritter Orden has…
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Pregnancy and childbirth in times of COVID-19: Parent organisation “Ranni Ptashky – Early Birds” launches webinar series in Ukraine
The global COVID-19 pandemic has posed particular challenges to families around the world, especially those who had or are expecting a baby in the midst of it. Hospitals put safety measures into place in order to keep staff and patients from contracting and spreading COVID-19, at times with harsh consequences. For new and expecting parents, this has made pregnancy, childbirth, and life postpartum more difficult to navigate and added further levels of stress…
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Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) gathers high-level experts on virtual conference
As the pandemic continues and conferences and workshops are still being held digitally the Neonatal Nurses Associations pulled off a virtual conference with a great line up of sessions and speakers. Under the motto "Embracing Change", the event focused on the many contemporary tasks and challenges in newborn care, of which some have been significantly intensified by the pandemic. EFCNI Chairwoman Silke Mader also had the opportunity to share the parents' perspective on neonatal health and care procedures. Moreover, in…
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FINE trainings in Hungary: How to train medical staff in times of a pandemic
A guest article by Livia Nagy Every year more than 8,000 newborns begin their lives in premature intensive care units of different levels in Hungary. The pillars of family-centred care are absent from numerous units, one of the most significant of these being the lack of opportunities for the 24-hour presence of parents and their involvement in the care of their children. In 2019 the Government of Hungary set family-friendly values and the implementation of family and child-friendly approaches as…
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