Neonatal Research Priority Setting Partnership: help wanted

Katie Evans
Neonatal Research Priority Setting Partnership Project Co-ordinator and Clinical Research Fellow in Neonatal Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
katie.evans7@nhs.net

Chris Gale
Academic Neonatologist and Neonatal Society Meeting Secretary

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Keywords

speech and language therapist; AHP; GIRFT improvements

Key points

SLTs are core members of the neonatal team.
SLTs work collaboratively within the neonatal team to support early infant feeding and communication skills.
SLTs are contributing to current workforce developments in neonatal care.

Also published in Infant:

VOLUME 14/ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2018

Nursing the surgical neonate part 1: developing a neonatal surgical outreach service

In 2007 it was reported by 23 of the 26 UK centres providing paediatric surgery for neonates that all but one had refused admissions due to lack of capacity. In the last decade, Birmingham Children’s Hospital has addressed this problem by developing a neonatal surgical outreach service. This article describes the concept behind the outreach service and how it was developed.