Featuring presentation videos and accompanying slides: Created for NHS neonatal professionals to find out how to successfully implement a neonatal home phototherapy service. The opportunity was taken to discover how to develop your trust guideline, build your service and improve your multi-disciplinary working in order to get neonatal babies home sooner.
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5 hours Continuing Professional Development
Not only did this forum provide practical advice and an excellent understanding of how to set up your home phototherapy service, it also was a great opportunity to network with the other attendees and share service improvement ideas. Key content focused on:
Packed with examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice, plus attendees benefited from:
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Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks
Led by Roelle Tucker, Lead Nurse, Neonatal Community Outreach Team, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 9:40 |
A brief history of phototherapy and the development of home phototherapy guidelines
Dr Richard Mupanemunda, Consultant in Neonatal Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 10:30 |
Questions, answers and discussion
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| 10:40 |
Screen break
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| 10:50 |
Home phototherapy: audit of current practice and assessment of family feedback
Dr Richard Mupanemunda, Consultant in Neonatal Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 11:40 |
Questions, answers and discussion
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| 11:50 |
Interactive discussion: What would be the main challenge for you setting up home phototherapy service
In small groups, you will be placed into a breakout room to discuss this important topic with your fellow attendees.
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| 12:20 |
Lunch break
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| 1:00 |
Feedback on the discussion: How to write home phototherapy guidelines and improving compliance
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| 1:10 |
Home phototherapy challenges and opportunities: experience shared
Roelle Tucker, Lead Nurse, Neonatal Community Outreach Team, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 1:30 |
Questions, answers and discussion
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| 1:40 |
Interactive discussion: Sharing your approaches to MDT working
In small groups, you will be placed into a breakout room to discuss this important topic with your fellow attendees.
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| 2:10 |
Screen break
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| 2:20 |
Feedback on the discussion: Sharing your approaches to MDT working
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| 2:30 |
Improving collaboration: working with your MDT to promote home phototherapy
Roelle Tucker, Lead Nurse, Neonatal Community Outreach Team, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 2:50 |
Promoting Family Integrated Care: supporting the right training and safety measures for parents
Sarah Moxon, Senior Matron, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 3:20 |
Questions, answers and discussion
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| 3:30 |
Closing remarks and close of day
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Share in first-hand experience
An expert panel of speakers who shared their insights:
Since starting work in 1993 I have always worked with families and children. Prior to nursing I worked part-time in a family centre in inner city Birmingham, lasting 23 years. It was a pleasure. I only left because I couldn’t fit it in with the matron post. The other half of my time was spent working in an infant school in the reception class.
I decided to retrain as a children’s nurse in 2002 and ever since qualifying in 2005 I have worked on the neonatal unit. This is my passion. I started working in special care, progressing to intensive care.
In 2011 I set up from scratch the neonatal community outreach team (NCOT) for Heartlands and Goodhope hospital, now known as UHB. This was a wonderful experience working alongside babies and their families.
After a secondment and In 2018, I became the matron for the neonatal service at UHB covering both a 32 bedded unit and a 12 bedded unit. This includes a 7 bedded transitional care and an NCOT service that is now covering 3 sites, and is thriving.
Richard studied medicine at the University of Southampton before embarking on his training in paediatrics in England, Wales, Scotland and Canada before returning to the Hammersmith Hospital in London and finally settling in Birmingham. Richard has wide interests in neonatal medicine, medical education, healthcare ethics and law and has authored a best-selling neonatal textbook.
Richard has long been interested in supporting the early discharge of infants from hospital care into the community which naturally led to developing the Home Phototherapy Programme in Birmingham. This has proved a great success with both parents and staff and is set to become a normal pathway for managing jaundice in otherwise well near-term new-borns in the two major neonatal intensive care units in Birmingham.
Roelle trained at Birmingham city university and qualified as an adult nurse in 2012. She commenced her first nursing post as a staff nurse in acute adult medicine until she moved to neonatal care in 2014.
Roelle went back to university in 2017 to study neonatal intensive care and on commencement took a band 6 post as neonatal outreach sister.
After working a split role across the neonatal unit and community and gaining experience for a further for 3 years, in February 2021 Roelle commenced a secondment at University hospitals Birmingham within neonatal care as the lead nurse for the neonatal community outreach team and inpatient transitional care unit which is the current role that she is in.
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Past attendee feedback
"Excellent information given by speakers and information shared between staff in different trusts"
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
"This study day has been very informative and has given ideas of how we can proceed in the process of aiming to commence phototherapy in the home"
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
"It has been interesting to hear how the team service development has evolved and the challenges encounter and how these have been overcome. "
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
"This was the first online study day I have attended. Once I was used to how it worked, I felt it worked really well. I would definitely do this again."
University of Plymouth NHS Trust
"Great insight on how to set up home phototherapy. It has given me a lot to think about as to how to set it up!"
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
"Very informative and great speakers – able to explain on all levels"
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust