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Listening to the fathers of twins – Being sensitive to fathers’ needs in maternity and child healthcare

Currently, the number of twin births worldwide is higher than ever before. For parents, this can be challenging. So far, research has mostly focused on mothers and their experiences. However, fathers of twins also face special challenges – like establishing an early bond and interaction with both children. In addition, having more than one child of the same age also means multiplied responsibilities in childcare. Therefore, fathers of multiples must often adapt to…
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Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) gathers high-level experts on virtual conference

As the pandemic continues and conferences and workshops are still being held digitally the Neonatal Nurses Associations pulled off a virtual conference with a great line up of sessions and speakers. Under the motto "Embracing Change", the event focused on the many contemporary tasks and challenges in newborn care, of which some have been significantly intensified by the pandemic. EFCNI Chairwoman Silke Mader also had the opportunity to share the parents' perspective on neonatal health and care procedures. Moreover, in…
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My key demand for newborn health – Strong advocates for the campaign “11 Months – 11 Topics”

In 2016 EFCNI launched the campaign “11 Months – 11 Topics”, to promote the implementation of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health. Each month EFCNI shares different infographics, related publications, news, interviews, or guest articles on social media, in order to explain all eleven topics of the standards.  In the social media series “My Key Demand”, experts, parents and stakeholders point out what needs to be done to advance and implement the standards in Europe.  The new EFCNI…
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Workshop: Implementation of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health

What can be done to implement the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH)? This is a question that does not only concern EFCNI but also national parent organisations. At the ESCNH workshop in Munich parent representatives from all over Europe, presented their plans and actions to implement the standards in their country, giving each other new ideas and support. EFCNI started to organise the workshops regularly to support the parent organisations network…
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European Standards of Care for Newborn Health – One year anniversary

We reached a lot, it was a long way. In November it has been exactly one year since the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health had been officially launched in the European Parliament in Brussels. 5 years of hard preparing work had come to a close. Yet, this marked the beginning of the next big steps: disseminating and implementing the standards! For a year, we have been on the roll with the "Standards roadshow" all over Europe - and…
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One year anniversary of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health

We reached a lot, it was a long way. In November it has been exactly one year since the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health had been officially launched in the European Parliament in Brussels. 5 years of hard preparing work had come to a close. Yet, this marked the beginning of the next big steps: disseminating and implementing the standards! For a year, we have been on the roll with the "Standards roadshow"…
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ESCNH information brochure is available in Greek and Bulgarian

The information brochure about the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health (ESCNH) are now also available in Greek and Bulgarian.  Our partner Organisation Ilitominon in Greece, Thermokoitida Agapis (Θερμοκοιτίδα Αγάπης) in Cyprus and Our premature children in Bulgaria promoted the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health in workshops and roundtables. The Greek edition of the ESCNH information brochurewas launched on the 21st of June 2019 during an one-day Conference on the topic…
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Important milestones for preterm babies and their parents in the Slovak Republic

A guest article by Iveta Jančoková from the Slovakian parent organisation “maliček” In the Slovak Republic it is not very common that parent representatives have the opportunity to present their cause in an expert forum for medical staff, therefore it was a great honour for us and “maliček” to be invited to talk about the parental view in preterm health during the international congress “Martin's Days 2019”, taking place in Martin. At this conference we took the opportunity to present…
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The NICU of the future: design meets function

Standards in practice - Best practice example for standards of care depicting the NICU of the future written by Dr Atle Moen, Consultant in neonatology at the Department of Neonatology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Norway Our knowledge of how hospitalised term and preterm infants perceive, relate and are influenced by their surrounding environment has improved significantly during the last 20 years. Infants are negatively influenced…
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Standards of Care: How Norway implements high-quality care

Oslo, December 2018 On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, our Norwegian partner parent organisation Prematurforeningen, chaired a seminar at Rikshospitalet, Oslo, as a national follow-up of the launch of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health and the Call to Action in Brussels, one month earlier. In only a few months, the organisation managed to reach out to well-known national experts from different disciplines to evaluate care procedures in perinatal and neonatal health on national level and prepared…
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