Don't forget that Bliss have a new video series that has been created for neonatal staff to explore the psychological impact of a neonatal stay and to delve deeper into the challenges

We are working on a huge number of documents which you will see coming through for consultation in the next few months. This includes the Identifying need document helping units

We continue to visit units for the Compassionate care conversations. For more information on what this involves please see our FAQ sheet The initial report on the conversations done so far

 Unpicking complexity in neonatal care webinar series. We had an excellent first session at the beginning of February on ethics and moral injury. The next webinar on 29th April is on

We are delighted with the update of our quick wins webinar series. These are 30 minute skills based webinars happening once a month. We aim for these to be practical and

We are delighted with the update of our quick wins webinar series. These are 30 minute skills based webinars happening once a month. We aim for these to be practical

New 'quick wins' series of 30-minute skills based webinars. One per month on the 3rd Wednesday A series of webinars across the year looking at topics you've raised with us as

It has been a busy and fulfilling year for the psychological professionals. We have grown our workforce by recruiting to the unfilled Ockenden funded posts, and through some brilliant business

We have recently published this document Outpatient-staffing-standards_psych_April2025-final.pdf  which lays out how the needs of infants and families should be met post-discharge. We will now be working to think with commissioners and

Support for families following a neonatal stay In the recent outreach survey the biggest thing mentioned by families was support around their wellbeing and mental health. In line with the

We have been running this training for a couple of years now and the evaluations are always excellent. People really value learning more about how to support families beter We

TRIM By the time you read this we will have held our Trauma risk management (TRIM) implementation workshop. This was a follow up after the training we offered to a

PIE meetings - making care safer We are currently setting up Psychologically informed care (PIE) meetings with all NCEL and SL units. These meetings are with the senior team on

The psychology annual report is now out. In 2024 we provided course places for 70% of the psychological professionals working on, or supporting neonatal units. Those that did not take

The 3 year plan for maternity and neonates asks us to respond to families with compassion. To do this we first need to be compassionate to ourselves and each other,

Over the last year we have been working on benchmarking and reviewing the psychologically informed environment in neonatal units. This was helpful in giving us an initial sense of where

We continue to run Trauma informed care (TIC) training days. These days offer staff a one-day face to face training with our senior clinical psychologists, looking at how trauma affects

We have now trained 39 neonatal MDT members in Trauma risk management (TRIM) with 5 more to train in the next couple of months. This is a model which equips

TRIM stands for Trauma Risk Management. It is a set model which trains staff up to respond to support their colleagues after a traumatic incident. We are offering free TRIM

It focuses on current and past trauma It asks us to hold in mind this trauma It is a model which asks us to respond to families and colleagues in

This is an approach which thinks about everything we do on our neonatal unit, and everyone who is involved on the unit, staff, families and babies. Psychologically informed care should

We are bringing together the first part of the benchmarking of psychologically informed care which the hub psychologists have been doing across NCEL and South London. We will be sharing