Neonatal
Thu 19 Jun 2025 08:30-16:10
Holiday Inn Leicester, 6 CPD Hours

Share the home phototherapy delivery experience of Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team

Created for Neonatal Outreach Teams, the core audience of community nurses will be joined by doctors, senior nurses, matrons and midwives. Whether your service is ANNP-led or doctor-led, this change management forum will showcase practical examples with transferable guidelines, enabling all Neonatal Outreach Teams to identify your best practice approach to winning over hearts and minds, and providing a safe, cost effective and family-friendly service.

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How to Set up your Neonatal Home Phototherapy Service
Face-to-face 6 hours Early bird: £145+VAT

Identify your challenges, and have your questions answered

This step-by-step guide will showcase the home phototherapy delivery experience of Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team as well as how it is being been rolled out in Kettering and Northampton. The realities of being operational will be revealed, to not only inspire you, but also enable you to envision how your service can introduce hospital-at-home care with a family-centred approach, that keeps mums with their babies in the comfort of their own home.

The right baby in the right place, cared for by the right people

How to make your Neonatal Home Phototherapy Service operational

Through engaging presentations, useful Q&A time and in-depth discussions, this interactive and experience-led guidance by Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team will feature:

  • Evidenced based facts and cost savings: sharing the challenges, opportunities and outcomes
  • Operational support: how to build the business plan for your home phototherapy service
  • Practical steps to implementation: developing your guidelines and involving all stakeholders
  • How to tackle the obstacles to change: meeting the needs of your individual hospital
  • Role of the ANNP-led Jaundice Clinic: exploring the referral process
  • Understanding the parent experience of home phototherapy
  • Insight into a typical working day on home phototherapy

Invitation to sponsor

There are opportunities to sponsor, exhibit or give a sponsored presentation at this unique and interactive forum. If you would like to be part of this day, please email Sarah Kemm or call Sarah on 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available.

8:30
Registration and networking opportunity
  • Taking place in the networking area – this is a great opportunity to meet the exhibitors for the day
9:00
Chair’s welcome and introduction to the day
Ann Dooley, Senior Nurse, Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
9:10
The Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team experience: challenges, opportunities and outcomes
  • From day one to baby 500: evidenced based facts and cost savings shared
  • What has been achieved for the parents and babies? Insight into increased breast-feeding success
  • The right baby in the right place, being cared for by the right person: impact on hospital flow
Claire Hunter (formerly Inglis), Lead Nurse for Neonatal Home Care, Leicester, Kettering and Northampton Neonatal Home Care Team
9:40
Building the business plan for your Neonatal Home Phototherapy Service
  • Scoping for a new service: best practice approach
  • Importance of nursing establishment and the equipment required for safe delivery
  • How to go about winning hearts and minds: focusing on cost, safety and parents/baby’s needs
  • Taking a networking approach for equity to families
Claire Hunter (formerly Inglis), Lead Nurse for Neonatal Home Care, Leicester, Kettering and Northampton Home Care Team
10:10
Questions and answers with Claire Hunter
10:20
Sponsored demonstration of equipment
  • If you are a neonatal provider and would like to be part of this day, please contact sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk for further information
10:30
Refreshments, networking break and meet the exhibitors
  • Everyone has been given a ‘bingo card’ which you can get stamped when visiting the exhibitors’ stands. Complete your details to enter the prize draw in the afternoon
10:50
Implementation of a new home phototherapy service
  • Identifying who needs to be involved: how to go about training the staff
  • Importance of building a guideline: taking a best practice approach
  • Parent education and resources shared
Vicky Mead and Nicola Owen, Deputy Lead Nurses, Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
11:20
Guidance on rolling out to Level 1 and Level 2 centres
  • How to engage with the different referral processes
  • The challenge of change: how to tackle the obstacles and embrace the differences
  • How to deliver without an ANNP led service?
  • Amending the guideline to meet the needs of your individual hospital
Joanne McDermott, Deputy Lead Nurse, Kettering and Northampton Neonatal Home Care Team and Nicola Owen, Deputy Lead Nurse, Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
11:50
Questions and answers with Vicky Mead, Nicola Owen and Joanne McDermott
12:00
Interactive discussion: Concerns and challenges shared: setting up your neonatal home phototherapy service
  • On your table, share your concerns and anticipated challenges of setting up your neonatal home phototherapy service. How would you get your service operational? Would you go down the ANNP-led or doctor-led route? What immediate benefits do you think your service and your parents will experience?
12:20
Feedback from interactive discussion
12:30
Refreshments, networking lunch and meet the exhibitors
1:30
Role of the ANNP-led Jaundice Clinic
  • Understanding jaundice and the annual impact on A&E and children’s hospitals
  • Exploring the referral process into the jaundice clinic via community midwives
Cathy-Ann O’Shea, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Leicester Neonatal Service
2:00
Parent presentation: Understanding the parent experience of home phototherapy
Hear the first-hand experience of a parent who had the opportunity to care for their baby at home. Find out the impact this had on their bonding and home life, the practical challenges they came across and how their concerns regarding safety were met
  • Family feedback of home phototherapy to date
  • How do families rate this new service?
Julia Hood, Senior Nurse, Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
2:30
Questions and answers with Cathy-Ann O’Shea and Julia Hood & parent
2:40
Refreshments, networking break and meet the sponsors
  • This will be your last chance to visit the sponsors and get your bingo card stamped for the prize draw which will take place at the end of this break
3:00
Insight into a typical working day on home phototherapy
  • Assessing the baby: considering feeding, jaundice and blood samples for those babies at home
  • Reviewing results with Advanced Nurse Practitioner & Telephone consultations
  • NBBS & Weight monitoring – Reducing Multiple professional visits
  • Teaching parents how to care for their baby on home phototherapy
  • Opportunity to view the parent video education tool
Emily Lucas, Senior Nurse, Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
3:30
Questions and answers with Emily Lucas
3:40
Interactive discussion: Deciding your action plan for building your home phototherapy service
  • This is a great opportunity set out your plan, address your challenges and decide how to get operational. What are your key learnings from the day? What adaptations will you need to make? What will be your first steps on the road to implementation?
4:00
Feedback from interactive discussion
4:10
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

Your expert speaker line-up:

Led by Claire Hunter (formerly Inglis), Lead Nurse for Neonatal Home Care who has over 18 years of neonatal outreach experience, and two years home therapy insight, this is a fantastic opportunity to find out the answers to your implementation problems. Featuring:

Claire Hunter (formerly Inglis)
Job Title:
Lead Nurse for Neonatal Home Care
Organisation
Leicester, Kettering and Northampton Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography
Ann Dooley
Job Title:
Senior Nurse
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography
Vicky Mead
Job Title:
Deputy Lead Nurse
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography
Nicola Owen
Job Title:
Deputy Lead Nurse
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography
Joanne McDermott
Job Title:
Deputy Lead Nurse
Organisation
Kettering and Northampton Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography
Cathy-Ann O’Shea
Job Title:
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Service
Biography
Julia Hood
Job Title:
Senior Nurse
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Homecare Team
Biography
Emily Lucas
Job Title:
Senior Nurse
Organisation
Leicester Neonatal Home Care Team
Biography

Pricing structure

  • £145+VAT – one NHS place when booked before Friday 11th April
  • £165+VAT - one NHS place when booked after Friday 11th April

For group bookings of four or more people, please email our delegate support team  for further details or call us on 01732 897788.

Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

Venue details

Venue name: Holiday Inn Leicester

Address: 129 St. Nicholas Circle, Leicester LE1 5LX

Tel: 0116 482 1900

Directions: Click here to plan your journey using Google Maps

What happens once you have made your booking?

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788. .

Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information.

Please inform us by writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

Reservations

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Who should attend?

Created for Neonatal Outreach Teams, the core audience of community nurses will be joined by doctors, senior nurses, matrons and midwives. 

Whether your service is ANNP-led or doctor-led, this change management forum will showcase practical examples with transferable guidelines, enabling all Neonatal Outreach Teams to identify your best practice approach to winning over hearts and minds, and provide a safe, cost effective and family-friendly service.

Past attendee feedback

"Very thankful that this training exists for neonatal units"

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Incorporating Neonatal Organ Donation into your Service, Oct 2024

“I very much enjoyed the day. We were able to cover the topic fully. The discussion flowed well which led to a more dynamic, interactive session which is more enjoyable than listening to a speaker talk through slides”

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Incorporating Neonatal Organ Donation into your Service, May 2023

“Very well organised and kept to time. I am a neonatal nurse (band 6) in the outreach service but have an interest in palliative care and found all the content brilliant”

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your Neonatal Palliative Care, February 2023

“Very thorough and clear and direct on how the deliver this service - fantastic thank-you”

York NHS Teaching Hospitals, Best Practice for Neonatal Nasogastric (NG) Tube Feeding, Sept 2022

“Very informative and engaging. Thoroughly enjoyed and have taken a lot from it”

University Hospital Dorset NHS Trust, Advancing Palliative and End of Life Care, July 2022

“Very well run, very interesting and informative, enjoyed talking to everyone to find out what they are doing for their service”

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Setting Up your Neonatal Outreach Service, Dec 2021

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk