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Campaign: 11 Months – 11 Topics (2020)

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With the campaign 11 Months – 11 Topics, EFCNI focuses its social media and online communication on one newborn health standard topic per month – starting from February until December. These monthly topics correspond to the eleven main subjects of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health. Every month, the corresponding topic is explained by sharing related publications, news, interviews or guest articles.

The campaign 11 Months – 11 Topics took off in 2016 and aims at reaching out explicitly to health professionals and policy makers. Yet, also lay persons who are to benefit from the dissemination of the standards in the long run, namely the preterm babies and their parents, relatives, and friends are addressees of 11 Month 11 Topics. With this campaign, extensive information and best practice examples are shared to raise awareness of the needs of preterm patients and hence, for standards of care.

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

In 2020, the campaign entered its 5th year. It provided features like an overview on the ESCNH topics, whole sets of ESCNH for download as well as selected standards in brief.

The following articles and features have been published so far:

Data collection and documentation (February)


Birth & transfer (March)


Follow-up & continuing care (April)


NICU design (May)


Medical care & clinical practice (June)


Ethical decision making & palliative care (July)


Nutrition (August)


Education & training (September)


Patient safety & hygiene practice (October)


Infant- & family-centred developmental care (November)


Care Procedures (December)


The information provided in the campaign of other years is available here: