Staff from Hornsby’s neonatal special care nursery with their Every Week Count award
Every Week Counts award for Hornsby Hornsby’s neonatal special care nursery is working with other hospitals across Sydney and the Central Coast to reduce preterm labour and babies born less than 39 weeks in low-risk women. Its collaboration with Royal North Shore,
midwifery teams have collaborated and shared improvement strategies with colleagues from other hospitals. “Our aim is to reach a common goal of reducing pre-term and early term births,” Ajay said. The trial, which will finish in May next year, focuses on two pillars of pre-term birth prevention across the hospitals. Firstly, prevention of early pre-term births between 14 weeks and 36 weeks, and the second component is the prevention and safely- reduced early term births (between 36 weeks and 6 days and 38 weeks and 6 days). Findings from the national pre-term prevention trial will be rolled out across Northern Sydney Local Health District hospitals and Gosford Hospital.
Northern Beaches and Gosford hospitals has earned accolades at the Every Week Count national launch in Brisbane recently. The national collaborative trial is to reduce preterm labour (babies born less than 37 weeks) and babies born less than 39 weeks (early term) in low-risk women. Research has shown babies born as close to term experience less health complications and have a reduced length of stay in hospital. Associate Professor Ajay Vatsayan is head of obstetrics and gynaecology at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital where the medical and
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