Taking neonatal care to the next level

The Baby Friendly Initiative’s (BFI) first neonatal conference, Taking neonatal care to the next level, took place on 19 May 2015, in partnership with Bliss. Four hundred neonatal health professionals attended the one-day event at the Royal Institution in London where global experts spoke about improving care and outcomes for infants to give them the best possible start in life. Sue Ashmore, Unicef UK BFI Programme Director, welcomed delegates to the meeting and set the scene by introducing the important contribution of the BFI standards to neonatal health care. Experts from the UK, USA, Canada and South Africa spoke about their work, which received a great deal of interest from the audience and generated a lot of discussion at the meeting itself and on social media. There was plenty of opportunity for networking over lunch and the event was brought to a close by a short film of inspiring practices from neonatal units around the UK.