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Recent News
16 January 2009
Network Office Move
The Network has moved into Room 5, Ward 61 on the Ground Floor Nine's Block at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust. Our phone number remains unchanged.
16 January 2009
Network Audit Competition 2009
The Network Audit Competiton was held on Friday 27th February at Dudley Education Centre.
Congratulations to:
Dr An Young Sohn who won 1st prize, £100 in book vouchers for the "Prepared for Emergency? An Audit of Neonatal Resuscitation Equipment at a Level 2 DGH"
Dr S Van der Bilt who won 2nd prize, £60 in book vouchers for the "Audit of the Use of Surfactant in Premature Infants for the Prevention or Treatment of RDS"
Dr Elliad Ali Banda who won 3rd prize, £40 in book vouchers for the "Audit of Outcomes of Babies of Substance Misusing Others in Wolverhampton"
05 August 2008
Congratulations to Fiona Chambers
Following winning the first Network Audit Competiton in March 2007 for her presentation of the results of an ‘Audit to Assess the Positioning of Naso-Gastric Tubes in Neonates’. Fiona has since had the article 'Utility of Chest Radiography to Assess Nasogastric Tube Position in Neonates' published in the Journal of Neonatal Nursing, Volume 14, Issue 4, August 2008, Pages 124-125.
19 December 2007
PRESS RELEASE
RE: National Audit Office Report 'Caring for Vulnerable Babies'
The Staffordshire, Shropshire & Black Country Newborn Network has welcomed the National Audit Office Report ‘Caring for Vulnerable Babies report published today, December 19.
The report highlights the very difficult issues newborn networks are tackling to improve the quality of care and outcomes for newborn babies needing special or intensive neonatal care and their families. The issues include the serious shortage of funding to staff neonatal appropriately with specialist nurses and doctors as well as the impact of high levels of deprivation on the life chances of those living in the Potteries and the Black Country. Jon Crockett, chair of the Staffordshire, Shropshire & Black Country Newborn Network, said: “We welcome this report on caring for vulnerable babies as it recognises the importance of neonatal care for our services and the progress networks have made to date.” He added that since the Staffordshire, Shropshire & Black Country Newborn Network was set up in 2004, recurrent funding of more than £1 million pounds had been allocated by the network for an additional six neonatologists, two practice nurse educators and 12 neonatal nurses. “In conjunction with the South West Midlands Newborn Network we have also introduced a stand-alone transport service to improve the transfer of small and sick babies within the region and reduce the strain of transfers on the staff within each neonatal unit. “In addition more than £600,000 has been spent non recurrently across the network, improving the quality of care through the introduction of network clinical guidelines, standardising specialist equipment, supporting research and audit and developing a foundation training programme for newly qualified nurses within the network.
“These important developments have been made possible by the close working relationship which has developed between the network and the specialist commissioners. The network will continue to work with commissioners to secure the recommended staffing levels for all our units,” he said.
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