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iHV Insights: Not just pink, blue and yellow: assessing ethnically diverse babies

 

Calling all members – book your place now for our April iHV Insights webinar – ‘Not just pink, blue and yellow: assessing ethnically diverse babies’.

This webinar is on Thursday 25 April 2024 (join from 3:15pm to allow a prompt start) 3:30pm to 4:30 pm.

This is open to all members.

Join us for a compelling webinar highlighting the pivotal role of health visitors in cultivating an inclusive and anti-racist healthcare environment. It’s widely acknowledged that ethnic disparities profoundly affect maternal and infant care, with alarming statistics revealing higher mortality rates among Black, Asian, and minority ethnic mothers and babies compared to their White counterparts. Ensuring every baby has the best chance of survival and a fulfilling life necessitates a thorough understanding of how current care practices contribute to these disparities.

Remarkably, there has been minimal exploration into whether existing guidelines for assessing newborns’ health are suitable for Black, Asian, or minority ethnic babies. This includes crucial assessments such as interpreting the Apgar score’s component examining skin colour, as well as evaluating conditions like jaundice and cyanosis. Despite being based on the experiences of White European babies, these assessments are universally applied by healthcare professionals, including midwives, doctors, health visitors, and nurses, irrespective of infants’ skin tones. Health visitors most often encounter neonatal jaundice in the post-natal period. Neonatal jaundice being the most common reason for readmission of neonates to hospital.

Our webinar brings together insights gleaned from a comprehensive review commissioned by The NHS Race and Health Observatory, comprising systematic analysis, policy examination, and qualitative research involving healthcare professionals and parents from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Our panel of experts, drawing from both professional expertise and lived experiences, will delve into the complex interplay of race, ethnicity, and skin tone in these critical neonatal assessments. There will be opportunity for discussion on how these insights can inform health visiting practices, research and policy changes, toward fostering a more equitable healthcare landscape. Join us as we embark on a journey toward creating inclusive and anti-racist healthcare environments for all infants.

Speakers

  • Ngozi Edi-Osagie – Consultant Neonatologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust: “Implications for clinical practice”
  • Arnie Puntis – Research and Policy Manager, NHS Race and Health Observatory: “Role of the Race and Health Observatory in Maternal and Neonatal Ethnic Health Inequalities”
  • Professor Gina Awoko Higginbottom – Professor Emerita Ethnicity and Community Health: “Summary of RHO report on neonatal assessment and practice in Black, Asian and minority ethnic newborns”.
  • Matt Wynter and Lauren Clarke – parents with lived experience

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How does this event align to the 2022 NMC Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting?

Attendance at this event and engagement with the iHV reflection template will support you with demonstrating CPD activities that align to the 2022 NMC Standards for Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting, in particular;

  • Sphere of Influence D: Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course;
  • 10 – use culturally appropriate, evidence-based approaches to assess, support and monitor the health and wellbeing of people, and appropriately refer to specialist services if necessary.
  • HV3 – assess for early signs of atypical patterns of development, or significant anomalies that may result in disability or emotional, physical or developmental health needs or risks, and deliver evidence-based anticipatory guidance or targeted intervention tailored to individual and family circumstances and needs

How to book for iHV members

Our booking process has changed, you no longer require your membership number to book. Go to our booking page and login with your iHV member email address and password. You must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, you will be able to select your ticket, submit your details and proceed to checkout – please note that this webinar is free to iHV members. On the day of the event, you will be automatically emailed the link to join the webinar.

Event Details

iHV Insights: Not just pink, blue and yellow: assessing ethnically diverse babies


1 Hour


Virtual | Zoom


Free to iHV Members


Event Date

Thursday 25 April 2024

3:30pm - 4:30pm

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