The winners of the best abstract awards were presented at the BAPM Annual Conference in Nottingham. Awards were given to the best abstract in each category with prizes also for best oral abstract and best overall poster. The judges were impressed with the overall quality of this year's abstract submissions.
Improving Family and Staff Experience Poster
Winner: Angela Storey, Band 7 Occupational Therapist, University Hospitals Dorset
Poster title: Creativi-tea: A Craft-Based Intervention to Support Parental Wellbeing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Quality Improvement Poster
Winner: Amitava Sur, Consultant Neonatologist, NWNODN
Poster title: "Take a Breath": Reducing Delivery Room Intubation in Preterm Infants. A Quality Improvement Project (QIP)
Service Evaluation and Development Poster
Winner: Claire Rose, Consultant Neonatologist, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
Poster Title: The OdonAssist™ device for assisted vaginal birth: clinical introduction and neonatal safety outcomes.
Research and Case Series Poster
Winner: Rasha Haggag, ST6 Neonatal Grid Trainee, St George's Hospital
Poster Title Unplanned Extubation During Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) Compared with Conventional Ventilation in Neonates: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Overall Poster Winner
Winner: Angela Storey, Band 7 Occupational Therapist, University Hospitals Dorset
Poster title: Creativi-tea: A Craft-Based Intervention to Support Parental Wellbeing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Oral Winner
Winner: Zoe Price, Lead Pharmacist For Neonatology, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Oral Presentation: BABY FLAMINGo!-a training module for optimising pharmaceutical management of neonates
