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Standards

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Implementation

Find out how we are working to implement the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health across Europe.

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Revision process

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News

ESCNH information brochure is now available in Portuguese

2022-05-26

We are happy to announce that the information brochure about the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) is now also available in Portuguese. Translating the brochure to Portuguese is an essential step to further promoting the implementation the ESCNH across Portugal. EFCNI would like to sincerely thank Dr Carmen Carvalho, Dr Eurico Gaspar, Dr Gabriela Mimoso, Dr Abílio Oliveira, Dr Edmundo Santos, Dr Fátima Clemente, Dr Cláudia Calado, Elsa Silva, Sara Paiva and Adriana Guerreiro for their great efforts to translate the brochure. A special thanks goes to our partner parent organisation XXS – Associação Portuguesa de Apoio ao Bebé Prematuro for coordinating and strongly supporting the translation. The information brochure is currently available in English, Bulgarian German, Greek, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Romanian. You can download these, and other materials at: https://newborn-health-standards.org/downloads/ © EFCNI Download your copy in Portuguese

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Welcome aboard – Announcing new Chair Committee members

2022-01-24

We are very delighted to formally announce that the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) can now draw on the expertise of four new Chair Committee members. Dr Marina Cuttini, PhD, from Italy, is the new co-chair for the Topic Expert Group (TEG) Ethical decision-making & palliative care. Dr Marije Hogeveen, PhD, from the Netherlands, is the new chair for the TEG Patient safety and hygiene practice. DDr Eva Schwindt, from Austria, is the new co-chair for the TEG Patient safety and hygiene practice. Dr James Webbe, PhD, from the United Kingdom, is the new chair for the TEG Data collection and documentation. © Fauxels / Pexels Our new Chair Committee members are a valuable resource specifically for the ongoing revision of the standards as well as the introduction of newly developed standards. We are sure that the respective TEGs – but also the ESCNH as a whole – will benefit from their experience and knowledge. We want to take this opportunity to also thank our former chairs, Professor Bréart (former chair, Data collection and documentation), Professor Greisen (former co-chair, Ethical decision-making & palliative care), Professor Tissières (former chair, Patient safety and hygiene practice) and Dr Helder (former co-chair, Patient safety and hygiene practice). With their exceptional work during the development of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health, they helped to reduce inequalities in newborn health across Europe. For more information about our new and former chairs, please visit our Chair Committee page here. Once again, we want to thank our new Chair Committee members for joining. We are looking forward to further improving the quality of care for newborn infants together.

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A new milestone in implementation: Italian ESCNH now available in every NICU

2021-11-11

Italy has achieved what many other countries strive for – they have not only translated the entire set of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) as first European country, the team of the Italian Society of Neonatology (SIN) have also distributed the Italian ESCNH version in book format to every NICU across the state. These great achievements lay the cornerstones for a successful implementation of the ESCNH in Italy. © Pixabay / Dianne Hope We congratulate Dr Gina Ancora (coordinator) and the entire team at SIN together with the Italian National Coordination of Parents’ Associations, Vivere ONLUS, for this unique accomplishment. The entire endeavour can be seen as a best practise example for collaboration between a parent organisation and a healthcare professional society unified by their common goal to improve the care for newborn infants in their country. Their collaborative work was also honoured earlier this year by receiving the jENS Award of 2021. We thank Dr Gina Ancora and Monica Ceccatelli as representatives of their organisations for their great cooperation and leadership. Thanks go also out to everyone else involved, especially the translators, for their hard work, dedication, and trailblazing spirit. Making the ESCNH available in Italian promises to change our understanding of adequate neonatal care by including more people in the conversation. It will support NICUs across Italy in putting the ESCNH into daily practice. You can access the Italian version of the ESCNH on our website. The project to translate the ESCNH into Italian was kindly supported by AbbVie. In 2021, the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health are financially supported by AstraZeneca, Baxter, GE Healthcare, Nestlé Nutrition Institute, and Prolacta Bioscience® Inc.

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