About: The SuPPORT Project
Supporting healthcare practitioners to provide high quality communication during neonatal resuscitation.​
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Exploring current practice
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Establishing best practice through research, co-production and multidisciplinary collaboration
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Guidance and training development
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Guidance cannot be formulated for such challenging circumstances without learning what mothers, fathers and birthing partners want during neonatal resuscitation and by investigating the lived experiences,
challenges and barriers met by anaesthetic team members.
Only by learning from those directly involved can we really determine what constitutes ‘best practice’. ​
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Four phase mixed methodology co-productive research
PHASE 1
Parental Scoping
Completed
Explored parental experiences. Guided project need and direction.
PHASE 2
All Wales Anaesthetic Staff Questionnaire
Completed
Explored anaesthetic team experiences of communicating with mothers and birth partners during neonatal resuscitation
PHASE 3
Infographic Communication Aid
In development
A clinical communication aid is being developed and is a synthesis of Phase 1 and Phase 2 learning with multi-disciplinary team input
PHASE 4
Co-productive guidance evaluation
Next steps
Review of developed guidance by expert parents and staff; ensuring infographic aid acceptability across a socioethnically diverse
UK population
Meet The SuPPORT Project Team
Dr Nicola Harris
Co-founder
Anaesthetics Consultant with special interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia, Cwm Taf Local Health Board
Dr Esther Godfrey
Co-founder
Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Medicine registrar, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Expert parent with personal experience of neonatal resuscitation
Dr Thomas Kitchen
Co-founder
Anaesthetics Consultant, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Dr Jennifer Calvert
Multi-disciplinary team member
Neonatology Consultant, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
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Multi-disciplinary team member
Consultant Obstetrician, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Dr Catriona Matthews
Multi-disciplinary team member
Neonatal Principle Psychologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Maryanne Bray
Multi-disciplinary team member
Research Midwife, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board