Authors: Cook A, Berkell M, Bram D, on behalf of the NeoIPC Consortium
Presented at: ECCMID, April 2024
Musakanya Chingandu
NeoIPC celebrates International Kangaroo Care Day by launching new video for parents
15th May marks International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day – an important day dedicated to raising awareness of the benefits of skin-to-skin contact on newborns, especially those born prematurely. Prematurity is a significant global public health issue and is currently...
Preliminary findings from the NeoIPC feasibility phase are now available!
Results from the NeoIPC Colonisation Surveillance, a multi-centre study seeking to understand and characterise bacterial colonisation in newborns hospitalised in neonatal units in Europe, are now available on a new webpage.
Unit-level antibiotic resistant bacterial colonisation pressure in 20 neonatal units across Europe
Authors: Cook A, Berkell M, Bram D, on behalf of the NeoIPC Consortium
Presented at: ECCMID, April 2024
Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial colonization in neonatal intensive care in Europe
Authors: Berkell M, Van Heirstraeten L, Cook A, Bielicki J, Malhotra-Kumar S
Presented at: ECCMID, April 2024
Establishing a community of practice for neonatologists and IPC experts: the NeoIPC Clinical Practice Network
Recently, we sat with Tuuli Metsvaht , Chair of the NeoIPC Clinical Practice Network (CPN) and Head of the Paediatric Clinic at Tartu University Hospital ( Estonia ), to discuss the CPN's mission and impact on infection prevention and control in neonatal care. Tuuli...
New Surveillance and Data Privacy FAQ page published
The FAQ page is designed to offer information to healthcare professionals, hospital directors, legal advisors, ethics advisors, and parents who may want to learn more about the use of patient data during the performance of surveillance activities in neonatal units.
NeoIPC surveillance published on CORDIS EU Research Results platform
We are proud to announce that the surveillance toolkit developed by the NeoIPC Consortium has been featured in a CORDIS news article, Keeping infection at bay for high-risk newborns . CORDIS, which stands for Community Research and Development Information Service, is...
Rewatch the webinar: “The role of surveillance in preventing hospital-acquired infections among newborns”
The NeoIPC Clinical Practice Network successfully hosted a webinar on 23 November 2023, addressing the critical topic of surveillance of hospital-acquired infections in newborns. With 130 participants attending the online event, the discussion encompassed a range of...
NeoIPC launches new surveillance toolkit to bolster infection prevention and control efforts in NICUs
Padua, Italy – 9th November 2023 The NeoIPC Consortium is proud to announce the launch of a new surveillance toolkit to help neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) track and prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in high-risk newborns, including very preterm...