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Strengthening neonatal and obstetric healthcare in the war-affected regions of Ukraine

2023-02-13 / News

  The war in Ukraine has deeply affected access to and the quality of obstetric and neonatal healthcare. In an effort to support their geographical neighbours, the Polish Medical Mission initiated a special programme focused on strengthening neonatal and obstetric healthcare in the war-affected regions of Ukraine. An eponymous programme was launched and implemented in […]

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The “Grey Zone” in Hungary – How can the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) help to move neonatal care in Hungary forward?

2022-12-14 / News

Conference report by Lívia Nagy Bonnard, founding member of “Melletted a helyem Egyesület” – “Right(s) Beside You Association” in English – and a member of the Parent, Patient and Public Advisory Board of the ESCNH as well as a member of the Parent Advisory Board of EFCNI.   ——–   Delivery room: “Hello doctor! A […]

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Welcome to our newest experts – great to have you!

2022-12-12 / News

We are happy to share that the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) have three new Chair Committee members: Dr Britta Hüning, from Germany, is the new co-chair for the Topic Expert Group (TEG) Follow-up and continuing care. Foteini Andritsou, from the United Kingdom, is the new co-chair for the TEG Care procedures. […]

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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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