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First digital implementation workshop of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health: Exchange of Italian and Portuguese partners

2022-11-14 / News

This November, the first digital implementation workshop of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) took place with two of our best practice countries Italy and Portugal, which have made extraordinary efforts to implement the ESCNH in their country such as translating the entire set of standards, in the case of Italy (for […]

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Standards for improving and assessing the outcomes of preterm infants

2022-11-08 / News

EFCNI’s chairwoman Silke Mader and our Senior Medical Director Professor Luc Zimmermann had the great pleasure of chairing an ESPR session exploring the role of standards regarding the improvement and assessment of outcomes in neonatal care at the EAPS Congress in Barcelona. Isabel Geiger, EFCNI’s project manager for the European Standards of Care for Newborn […]

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European Standards of Care for Newborn Health progressing

2022-09-11 / News

After an intensive development and coordination phase, six new standards were launched at the 12th UENPS Congress in Kraków. Since the launch of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) in the European Parliament in 2018, they received much attention and international experts in neonatal care expressed great interest to support the standard […]

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A TASK FORCE within the Italian Society of Neonatology to improve PRESENT AND FUTURE HEALTH OF BABIES AND their PARENTS

2022-07-28 / News

A guest article by Dr Gina Ancora and Dr Roberta Arena Viola is born too early, after only 6 months of gestation. She suddenly left the warm and protective environment of her mother’s uterus. She is not ready for the external environment, but she has courage and strength to spare. In May 2022, the Italian […]

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ESCNH information brochure is now available in Portuguese

2022-05-26 / News

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, […]

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Welcome aboard – Announcing new Chair Committee members

2022-01-26 / News

  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, […]

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

2021-10-27 / News

  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 […]

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Lifecycle 2021: Results of the public consultation phase

2021-10-27 / News

  We are pleased to announce that the first public consultation of the 20 standards that are currently under revision was a great success. In total, we received 252 complete questionnaires of more than 60 participants across Europe and beyond. Respondents of 24 countries took part in the consultation with most feedback coming from the […]

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