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Improving Care Conference 2009

Following the success of the 2009 conference we will be holding this meeting on Thursday March 25th 2010.

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IMPROVING CARE MEETING

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 

10AM - 4PM

 

Sovereign Lecture Theatre, Bradford Royal Infirmary

Invited speakers from across the UK will talk on the current hot topics in neonatology including;

Prof. Henry Halliday from Belfast on Post Natal Steroids

Prof. Bill McGuire from York talking about fungal infection in the newborn

Dr Elaine Boyle, Nottingham, about the late preterm infant

and

Dr Kevin Ives, Oxford, on high flow nasal cannula therapy

Plus ..Update on YNN & The Neonatal Survey 2008

….and many others!

Priced to please at £20 per person to include lunch

 

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 & Jo Preece)

Therapeutic cooling and HIE (Sunita Seal & Kathryn Green)

Parental perception and PPI (Gwynn Bissel)

Proceedural pain relief (Liz McKechnie and Denise Evans)

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)