Campaign: 11 months – 11 topics

Here you find an overview of the topics which are featured monthly:

• February: Data collection and documentation
• March: Birth and transfer
• April: Follow-up and continuing care
• May: NICU design
• June: Medical care and clinical practice
• July: Ethical decision-making and palliative care
• August: Nutrition
• September: Education and training
• October: Patient safety and hygiene practice
• November: Infant- and family-centred developmental care
• December: Care procedures

In 2020, the campaign enters its 5th year. It provides new features like the key demand for newborn health, an option for parent representatives, healthcare professionals and policy makers to express their demand to advance treatment and care for hospitalised newborns. Moreover, insights from the Toolkit, Shaping the future. Combining forces to improve newborn health, will be presented. Also, the Lighthouse projects will return. Introduced in 2018, this initiative shared best practice examples from all over Europe, showing where the standards had been successfully implemented. These lighthouses want to appreciate the commitment of those improving and implementing standards of care and they also serve as a source of inspiration for those who want to make a change in newborn care procedures.

The following articles and features have been published:

Data collection and documentation (February)

• Standard for “Characteristics of health indicators” in “brief”

Birth & transfer (March)

• Standard for “Organisation of perinatal care” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Organisation of perinatal care” in “brief” (jpg)

Follow-up & continuing care (April)

• Standard for “Respiratory outcome” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Respiratory outcome” in “brief” (jpg)

• News article “The little hero’s house – a holistic follow-up concept from the Netherlands”
• News article “Retinopathy Of Prematurity: Keep up the screening process, even in difficult times – An interview with Professor Doctor Andreas Stahl”

NICU design (May)

• Standard for “General layout of the unit” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “General layout of the unit” in “brief” (jpg)

• News article “The impact of COVID-19 on Parents and NICUs: An interview with Livia Nagy”

Medical care & clinical practice (June)

• Standard for “Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome” in “brief” (jpg)

Ethical decision making & palliative care (July)

• Standard for “Rights of infants, parents, and families in difficult decisions” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Rights of infants, parents, and families in difficult decisions” in “brief” (jpg)

Nutrition (August)

• Standard for “The role of human milk banks” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “The role of human milk banks” in “brief” (jpg)

• “For the best start in life. – The importance of the right fatty acids in infant nutrition products” (pdf)

Education & training (September)

• Standard for “Neonatal resuscitation training” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Neonatal resuscitation training” in “brief” (jpg)
• Guest article “SARS-COV-2 epidemic and medical training: Unnecessary risk or indispensable duty” by Schwindt et al.

Patient safety & hygiene practice (October)

• Standard for “Environmental hygiene in the NICU” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Environmental hygiene in the NICU” in “brief” (jpg)

Infant- & family-centred developmental care (November)

• Standard for “Parental involvement” in “brief” (pdf)
• Standard for “Parental involvement” in “brief” (jpg)

Care Procedures (December)

• Standard for “Nappy Change” in “brief” (pdf)

The information provided in the campaign of the previous year is available here:

• 2019