Innovating for Life Awards, designed to encourage and reward initiatives that demonstrate innovation in infant and maternal care amongst the midwifery and neonatal professions and recognise the critical role they play in giving babies the best start in life. We received some excellent entries and were delighted to be able to announce the winners at a ceremony on 2nd March 2012 at the Royal Society, London. The judges drew up a shortlist of three midwifery entries and two neonatal entries, and the winners were announced by Dr. Janet Warren, Head of Medical Affairs at DANONE Baby Nutrition.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Innovating for Life Awards. We would like to extend our congratulations to everyone who entered.
Winner of the Midwifery category Project title: Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Project Lead applicant: Dr. Sian Warriner, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Team, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust The Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) project promotes mindfulness in childbirth, parenting education, family health and supportive peer relationships to help address fear, pain, stress and depression. The aim is to equip expectant parents with specific skills to negotiate the transition to parenthood and decrease anxiety and depression during pregnancy. Winner of the Neonatal category: Project title: Improving neonatal airway management Lead applicant: Dr. Lauren Johansen, Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Neonatal Unit A 4-step intervention project aimed at improving the management of infants with difficult neonatal airways. This will be through the development of an algorithm, an equipment kit, improved training and a neonatal clinical pathway. Shortlisted entries in the Midwifery category: Project title: Intermittent Auscultation Learning Pack Lead applicant: Christine Harding, Consultant Midwife Trainee at the NHS South of England/Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust An exciting innovative teaching tool for Intermittent Auscultation (IA), using audio files of fetal heart sounds to assess skills, improve training and certify competence in IA. The aim is to improve the efficacy of IA, therefore improving the care of women and their babies. Project title: Improved parental education and IT website Lead applicant: Alison Cooke, Parent Education Midwife, Parent Education Midwifery Team, East Cheshire NHS Trust A new Parent Education programme to optimise education in the class setting and increase postnatal education in the ward. The team’s goal is to provide enhanced customer service, improving choice and convenience for mothers and their families, which in turn will create a better and more positive maternity experience. Shortlisted entry in the Neonatal category: Project title: Integral Scales (awarded a Highly Commended certificate) Lead applicant: Dr. Ula El-Kafrawy, Consultant Neonatologist, Royal Bolton Foundation Trust The Integral Scales project is aimed at producing a ventilator tube compensator (VTC) device for use in conjunction with integral incubator scales to allow the safe and more accurate weighing of ventilated extremely low birth weight premature babies within the incubator. The main objective of this project is to optimise the care of ventilated premature babies by enabling their more accurate weighing within the incubator on integral scales. ... If you have any questions regarding the awards please call
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