The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) has published a report on the characteristics and outcomes of women and babies according to category of maternal body mass index (BMI).

Thousands of new, expectant or bereaved mothers will receive help and support for mental health problems through dedicated hubs which are being set up across the country.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Leeds host the first UK research project focused on improving MRI of infants with congenital heart disease using 4D Flow MRI prototype software provided by Siemens Healthineers.

Central Medical Supplies Ltd has supplied 70 phototherapy systems to the East and West Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Networks.

Women should be offered induced labour earlier than previously advised to make birth safer for them and their babies, according to draft guidelines published by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Bliss has published the report Locked Out: The Impact of COVID-19 on Neonatal Care, which includes results of a survey of over 500 parents of neonatal babies born between March 2020 to February 2021, as well as findings from a survey of 70 NHS England trusts.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reports that it does not support the routine, universal administration of probiotics to preterm infants, particularly those with a birth weight <1,000g.

The Children’s Air Ambulance has won the Adolescent and Child Health Care Team award at the Oxfordshire Health and Social Care Awards 2021.

A new study by a clinical team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital has concluded that the use of a continuous wireless patient monitoring platform and a first-of-its-kind predictive indicator can aid detection of deterioration of paediatric patients significantly earlier than their current early warning scoring method, potentially saving hundreds of young lives.

Professor Gordon Smith has taken on the role of Ambassador for Sands (Stillbirth and neonatal death charity) to help drive the charity’s ground-breaking work to save babies’ lives.