Neonatal medicine

Neonatologists are paediatric specialists whose expertise is looking after newborn infants or those born prematurely. Find out more about this sub-specialty.

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Our history, your future - Ngozi Edi-Osagie

12 August 2021

As �� celebrates its 25th birthday, 25 members have shared stories about a case that stayed with them. These stories will be published throughout 2021.

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Our history, your future - Cheryl Battersby

29 July 2021

As �� celebrates its 25th birthday, 25 members have shared stories about a case that stayed with them. These stories will be published throughout 2021.

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Our history, your future - Camilla Kingdon

22 July 2021

As �� celebrates its 25th birthday, 25 members have shared stories about a case that stayed with them. These stories will be published throughout 2021.

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Dr Cheryl Battersby wins the 2021 Simon Newell award

11 May 2021

Each year, with support from GOSH Charity and Sparks, we offer this prestigious award of £2,000 to one early independent researcher in paediatrics. We speak with this year's winner about her research to improve the lifelong health of preterm babies, and we hear her tips for aspiring researchers.

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Medicines safety alert - Erythromycin therapy

5 January 2021

Erythromycin in babies and infants has been associated with an increased risk of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

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National Neonatal Audit Programme virtual update event 2020 - resources

On 12 November 2020, the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) hosted its inaugural virtual update event as a live webinar. You can access resources from the event on this page.

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Your baby's care: Measuring standards and improving neonatal care - NNAP parent and carer guide

The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) assesses whether babies in UK neonatal units have had the recommended health checks to reduce their risk of complications and how well they are doing after this care. This is our parent and carer guide to the latest summary report from the NNAP.

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A snapshot of general paediatric and neonatal services: benchmarking for improvement and recovery

25 September 2020

Two new reports have been released outlining the findings of a snapshot survey of the UK's general paediatric and neonatal services and workforce in September 2019. The reports provide a pre-COVID benchmark and give recommendations to government, service planners and other decision makers about how ...

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Snapshot of neonatal services and workforce in the UK

The current study was conducted on a weekday and weekend day in September 2019, and surveyed 191 neonatal services. Results from this snapshot were reported back to neonatal services in January 2020 through individual benchmarking reports produced by the GIRFT team. This report summarises the findin...

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�� announces forthcoming digital growth charts for parents and families

1 August 2020

We look ahead to plans for digital growth charts, which will be available to parents and carers in 2021.