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Improving Care Conference 2009

Following the success of the recent 2008 conference we will again be holding this meeting on Thursday March 19th 2009. Please put the date in your diary now.

 

Audits 

Send us your audits!

We will publish suitable material on the audit section of this page.  Audits may be suitable for the Improving Care Day Yorkshire Neonatal Network Audit prize

Download this form and send the completed version to sam.oddie@bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk.  Don’t exceed the one page limit.  You will be expected to attach an email address and leave a copy of the presentation (as ppt file, and data in .xls file) with a permanent staff member at your place of work (for example your supervising consultant).  You will need to include their email address too.

Improving Care & Education (ICE) Team

This group was formed in 2007 as a merger of the Yorkshire Neonatal Network improving care team and education and training team. It's aim is to ensure the highest qaulity evidence based practice across the network through education, clinical audit, outcomes analysis and guideline development.

Every hospital in the Network has an allocted medical consultant and nurse to enable dissemination of information and ideas.Click here for list to link of contact details. contact grid.

Projects that are currently active (and lead clinicians) include:

Thermoregulation  (Sam Oddie & Denise Evans)

Intubation (Lawrence Miall & Val Christian)

Therapeutic cooling and HIE (Sunita Seal & Hassan Gaili)

Parental perception and PPI (Gwynn Bissel)

Proceedural pain relief (Liz McKechnie)

Recent Publications (see guidelines page)

YNN prevention of hypothermia guideline

 Investigation of Hypotonia Guideline

Airedale herpes guideline (Local guidline, but incorporates up to date advice and dosing.)

The Golden Hour  Early care guideline (Local guideline, but an example of good practice)

Feeding preterm infants- draft guideline for comment

Examples of recent audits