Today is World NEC Awareness Day 2024🌎 #NECAwarenessDay2024 The FEED1 study are trying to find the best way to feed babies without any increased risk of NEC (Necrotising Enterocolitis)💚💙

Such exciting news, we now have 2031 infants randomised into the FEED1 study💜 We are so thankful to everyone involved! Thank you to the sites who randomised in the last week: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT UHDB R&D, University Hospitals Birmingham, @OUH_research, Singleton NICU Swansea Bay NHS, West Herts Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust!🥳

Our May newsletter has now been circulated🗞️ This newsletter features some important reminders about well-being checks and ensuring CRFs are completed and signed off✅ It also includes our 2000th randomisation and details of our final milestone 2088!💜

FEED1 Trial Gaynor Tyler Liverpool Women's Neonatal Unit Birmingham Women’s NICU Research UHL Kids Research Research at Leicester's Hospitals London North West University Healthcare A few more from each site and we will get to 2008. Please continue your stellar work just a bit longer - we are very close now!

Congratulations to the team at Lister Hospitals who have now reached their 100th randomisation! 💯 This is amazing news, thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication, we really appreciate it!🥳💜

Every week we're a step👣closer to our recruitment target!🎯 Thank you to everyone who is still spreading the word about the FEED1 study🗣️ Congratulations also to those who randomised in the last week: Imperial NHS 💙, @OUH_research OUH, ENHerts NHS Research, Wishaw Neonatal

Exciting news...🎉 We're now just 40 infants away from our recruitment goal, 2088, so we have one more milestone prize to give away! Whoever randomises this final infant will win a £25 online shopping voucher!🛍️ Don't miss your chance to be part of this milestone moment!💜

Our total is now 2⃣0⃣4⃣9⃣🎉 Thank you and congratulations to the sites who randomised in the last week: @StGeorgesTrust, Nottingham Centre for Newborn Care ChildrensResearchNUH, HUG RHC NICU, ENHerts NHS Research, Wishaw Neonatal, London North West University Healthcare We really appreciate everyone's efforts up until the end of recruitment!💜

We're now only 22 infants away from reaching our recruitment target of 2088🥳 So close now!🎯 Thank you to everyone who recently randomised: @nicuBWC Birmingham Women’s NICU Research. Oliver Rackham, Portsmouth Hospitals Research, Imperial NHS 💙, Connect @ Exeter Neonatal Unit, ENHerts NHS Research, Wishaw Neonatal, Hampshire Hospitals💜

We really appreciate everyone still discussing the FEED1 study and checking for eligible infants! We're only 18 infants away from our target!🎯 A huge congratulations to North Bristol NHS and Swansea Bay NHS Singleton NICU for randomising 2 infants each in the last week🥳

We have just circulated our July Parent Newsletter🗞️ The full version of this newsletter has been sent to all parents via email📧 Saiyas story is featured in this newsletter, please take a read below of this family's experience in the FEED1 study💜

A wonderful opportunity to thank staff & parents for being involved in neonatal research. neoGASTRIC Trial BASE Trial WHEAT International FEED1 Trial NNRD-UK Chelsea and Westminster Hospital A parent’s words “we want to help other children who may benefit from this research, just like we have benefited”.

To keep everyone updated we are now just 1⃣ away from our recruitment target of 2088!🎯 This is so exciting that we're so close to finishing this recruitment journey🛣️ We are so thankful for every randomisation, for all of the health care professionals and families involved💜

WE'VE REACHED OUR RECRUITMENT TARGET❗️ We are thrilled to make this announcement that 2088 infants have been randomised into the FEED1 study since beginning this journey in 2019🥳 THANK YOU💜 to all of the health care professionals, mothers, families and amazing teams involved!

THANK YOU💜 to everyone who has been involved in our recruitment journey we could not have reached our target without you🫶 We still have follow-up data to collect so if parents could please complete questionnaires and sites continue to enter data we would really appreciate it✏️

TOP 3 Participating Sites🏆 Recruitment Rate (per month): 🥇 Lister 🥈 Queen Alexandra Hospital (Portsmouth Hospitals Research) 🥉 Leicester (Research at Leicester's Hospitals Leicester Neonatal Service) Recruitment Total: 🥇 Queen Alexandra Hospital 🥈 Leicester 🥉 Royal Derby (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT UHDB R&D) Congratulations!🥳

Final recruitment figures🚨 You can now find a summary of each sites recruitment figures on our recruitment webpage here: feed1.ac.uk/health-care-pr… These figures are displayed in both a table and a graph📈

FEED1 stories📚 We have received so many lovely stories from some of our FEED1 families! These stories talk about their experiences and how they believe the FEED1 study has helped their infants! Please take the time to have a read of these: feed1.ac.uk/information-fo… 💜

Our July newsletter has now been released📰 This newsletter features the amazing news that we have reached out recruitment target and a summary of figures📊 Thank you🥳 Please be aware that now we have finished recruitment our site newsletters will now go out every 3 months🗓️

Our 2⃣0⃣8⃣8⃣th infant was randomised by Claire Granger from Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle on the 14th July!🥳 Congratulations for randomising the final infant into the FEED1 study! Thank you so much for sharing a photo with us!📷 💜