Swindon's hospital is celebrating the two-year anniversary of a project that has significantly reduced the risk to premature babies.
This month staff working across Great Western Hospital's maternity and neonatal teams, local partners and new mums joined together to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the PERIPrem project.
PERIPrem was launched in 2019/20, and is a quality improvement project designed to improve outcomes for babies born prematurely. The project has reduced the risk of premature babies dying by 22 per cent across the South West.
Due to its success, it has since been rolled out across the region, and more recently widely across the country, with the GWH teams championing it all the way.
The project supports a number of initiatives as part of a full care package, including delayed cord clamping, which has proven to be beneficial for initial bonding between mother and baby.
The 2020 National Neonatal Audit Project report also showed GWH to be the third-best regionally at key preterm optimisation measures.
"A huge well done to the whole team for embedding such an amazing, life-saving project across the UK," a hospital spokesperson said.
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