Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
Through perseverance and determination, this unit introduced innovative measures to maximise the thermal environment which has resulted in significant outcomes
Following extensive building work, the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow identified problems with hypothermia in term and late preterm infants. A small multidisciplinary team was set up to develop an intervention to improve new-born thermal care.
A Warm Bundle was introduced which involves educating staff and parents through information and resources, to optimise the thermal environment and skin-to-skin in maintaining normal body temperature.
The hospital reports that there is now a greater reduction in mothers and babies being separated. The neonatal unit acknowledges that the success of the Warm Bundle initiative is the result of a collaborative approach.
The hospital has since shared the results of the Warm Bundle initiative nationally and has been adopted by several hospitals across the UK.
This award was sponsored by Chiesi
Leeds Centre for Newborn Care
This team has made concerted efforts to deliver teaching to parents to ensure they are central to their baby's care, as well as helping other units to deliver high levels of family-centred care.
Staff are given dedicated time to deliver parent training sessions as well supported with other educational opportunities in family-centred and family integrated care.
The team actively shares best practice and engages with other neonatal units to support them to deliver high-quality care, with families as active partners in the delivery of care.
This award was sponsored by Pampers
