Since I listed the reasons why a parallel private system is so damaging to publicly provided & delivered healthcare, & again at The Cambridge Union people have asked about insurance based healthcare systems; here are the many reasons why this isn’t a sensible suggestion for the UK:

Congratulations Prof Chris Gale! Lovely inauguration lecture, weaving together personal and professional stories and lots of fashion advice! Great attendance, and lots of deserved kind words in the Vote of Thanks

Great discussion of optimistic vs. pessimistic framing of prognostic #NICU discussions on this week's The Incubator Podcast ! 🌟"Hope and realism are not mutually exclusive"🌟 Lots to learn here #neotwitter👇 JAMA Network Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Our colleague Katie Harron Katie Harron will be running the London Marathon on 21st April for Tommy’s charity for preterm birth and baby loss. You can sponsor her here: 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/katie-harro…

Still time to have your say, whatever your feeding journey after H.I.E. has been. Want to know more about how HIE affects feeding? So do we! Sarah Edney , a speech and language therapist and friend of Peeps HIE, is doing a PhD on feeding outcomes following HIE and what can

🌟 Has your family been affected by HIE? 🌟 We're keen to understand how #HIE has influenced your lives. Share your story by completing our brief survey 👇 For more details, feel free to reach out: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health @peeps-HIE redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=43C…

🌟Interesting GBD update The Lancet Neurology🌟 🧠Neonatal encephalopathy=2⃣biggest cause of age-standardised DALYs 🧠Mortality ⬇️29%(1990-21) 🧠Yrs w/ disability ⬆️107%(1990-21) Reinforces lifelong importance of neuroprotection #newbornbrains #neotwitter rb.gy/qihyoy

I wish more people would understand exactly what happens in children’s hospices, and how they become lifelines for families of children with complex & life limiting conditions. Claire House has helped our family in so many ways. Please - watch this short video. It may only

Example of resources available for neurohabilitation in NICUs in USA. 1 FTE therapist per 17 babies, 1-2 sessions per week per baby. Not enough apparently, need more inpatient work for high risk babies. Do all UK units even meet this US example? #pas2024

Incredibly powerful to call to action from Jennifer Canvasser mobilising the neonatal community & working towards a world without #nec NEC Society #PAS2024

Important points from Susan R Hintz MD at #pas2024 relevant to #neoebm in general 1. Two year outcomes are NOT long term outcomes 2. We need to re-focus on meaningful outcomes to families 🙌🏻 #neotwitter

This was a great collaboration and call to action in #NICU care! 👶🧠🫂 #NeoTwitter #NeuroTwitter

Fall et al. examine racial inequities and outcomes in the receipt of therapeutic hypothermia in infants with HIE JournalofPediatrics buff.ly/4frHbAH #ebneoalerts #equity4babies #EBNEOEquityAlerts #neotwitter #neoEBM

🧠The CHERuB study is officially underway! 🧠 Pleased to share our protocol outlining this national study of childhood outcomes after perinatal brain injury Check it out here 👇 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/8/e… Population, Policy and Practice Department National Institute for Health and Care Research BMJ_Open

The #CHERuBstudy is a whole population birth cohort study of children with perinatal brain injuries, including around 170,000 children up to 13 years of age! 🏥📚 #neotwitter #newbornbrains

👶 This study includes >54,000 babies with #HIE #IVH #PVL #seizures #stroke #meningitis #encephalitis from the NNRD-UK 👶

This is so important to help children and families get the information and support that they deserve! 💙🤝 We're privileged to partner with amazing charities to make sure these families needs are heard and met Bliss Baby Charity @peeps-HIE Meningitis Research

We’d love to hear your thoughts! Stay tuned for updates and for more info visit our website 👇  ucl.ac.uk/child-health/r…

Important paper from Philippa Rees Chris Gale Cheryl Battersby Using NNRD-UK data to show increasing IVH in extreme preterm population in England. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

🌟Great to see our JAMA Network Open paper on #IVH outcomes featured on The Incubator Podcast 🧠 Hope the #neotwitter #newbornbrains communities find the data useful P.S. Excited to be back from my mat leave hiatus—more updates from CHERuB study coming soon! 🍼 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…