Other content tagged: standards
Survive and Thrive: Transforming Care for Small and Sick Newborns
The webinar series “Survive and thrive: transforming care for small and sick newborns” by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has now come to an end. For the past four months, leading experts on neonatal health gave a detailed insight into the findings collected in the report, and shared country experiences in improving quality of care for newborns and introduced WHO’s new standards of care for small and sick newborns. On May 6, EFCNI…
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Official launch of the toolkit for the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
The toolkit ‘Shaping the future – Combining forces to improve newborn health’ was launched on the occasion of this year´s Congress of joint European Neonatal Societies (jENS) 2019 in Maastricht. The toolkit aims to facilitate and support the implementation of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health on a national, regional, and local level. It can be used by various stakeholders like parent organisations, healthcare professionals, healthcare societies, payers, non-governmental organisations, policymakers, politicians,…
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Standards presented in Brussels and Kiev
The international ‚roadshow‘ about the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health is in full swing. Here is an update of the latest presentations about the project: On 16 May Dr Johanna Walz from EFCNI presented the standards and the Call to Action for Newborn Health in Europe at the NIDCAP (abbreviated for Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program) meeting on “Infant- and family-centred care”…
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Towards the implementation of the standards in the Czech Republic
In April 2019, 20 coordinators of our partner organisation Nedoklubko from the Czech Republic came together for an intense working meeting in Škvorec/Prague. They worked on tasks like their "Mom for Mom" project and discussed possibilities on how to introduce the baby simulator doll “Paul” as a training tool in hospitals in the Czech Republic. One of the key agenda points was how to implement the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health in the Czech Republic. Several steps have…
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The European Standards of Care for Newborn Health are published
This set of standards will have an impact on future generations in Europe and beyond, setting a new benchmark for the care of preterm and ill babies. Five years after the project’s kick-off, EFCNI in the role of the project lead, gave a reception with panel discussion at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union on 27 November. Along the slogan: “Newborn Health Reloaded. Shaping our babies’ future”, around 100 project members, stakeholders, medical experts…
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