Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies UENPS : Past, Present and Future Brussels, December 2009 Hercilia Guimarães [email protected].

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS : Past, Present and Future

Brussels, December 2009

Hercilia Guimarães

[email protected]

Union of EuropeanNeonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS

Founded 1th July 2006, in Vienna, is a confederation of European Societies i.e. an organisation integrating national European Neonatal or Perinatal Societies under one organisational roof.

Members of the 1st UENPS Board

President: Georg Simbruner (Áustria) Vice-President:Portuguese Neonatal Society - Hercília

GuimarãesG. Secretary: Slovenia Neonatal Society – Borut Bratanic

Treasurer: Slowakian Neonatal Pediatric Society - Peter Krcho

Italian Neonatal society – Vassilios FanosHungarian Perinatal Society – Gyorgy BallaTurkish Neonatal Society - Murat Yurdakok Polish Neonatal Societ - Janusz SwietlinskiEstonian Perinatal Society - Heili Varendi

In the 1st 2 years (2006-2008)

Asking societies for joint UENPS.

1st UENPS congress in Roma.

Some multicenter trials were proposed by some researchers and done.

UENPS registration in Roma 17th April 2008

UENPS Executive and supervisory committees

Executive Committee President: Portuguese Neonatal Society - Hercília

GuimarãesVice-President: Italian Neonatal Society - Giuseppe

BuonocoreG. secretary: Spanish Neonatal Society - Manuel Sanchez

LunaTreasurer: Bulgarian Neonatal Association - Nelly Jekova

MembersHellenic Neonatal Society - Antatolitou Fani

Slowakian Neonatal Pediatric Society - Peter Krcho Turkish Neonatal Society - Murat Yurdakok

Lithuanian Neonatology Association - Egle Markuniene Serbian Perinatal Society - Georgios Konstantinidis

Supervisory CommitteeMacedonian Neonatal Society - Katica Piperkova

Polish Neonatal Societ - Janusz SwietlinskiEstonian Perinatal Society - Heili Varendi

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS

UENPS is the Union of national societies of neonatal and perinatal medicine.

It represents countries and governing bodies of each national society.

The UENPS wants to collaborate with all the scientific societies.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

MISSION

The mission of UENPS is to improve healthcare in the neonatal and perinatal medicine in the European countries.

Main goals of UENPS are to improve quality in perinatal and neonatal care by integrating, coordinating and adding national and scientific societies efforts.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

VISION

UENPS wants to promote the knowledge of the perinatal

indicators and

to develop recommendations, guidelines, training of the healthcare givers and any other tool to achieve the best healthcare for every newborn and surveillance of neonatal rights wherever they are born.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

UENPS PROGRAM 2008-2010

Collect and share data on neonatal and perinatal Demography and Epidemiology in Europe.

Promote and create, with national and scientific European societies, recommendations, standards and guidelines in neonatal/perinatal healthcare.

Support, advice and work together with local

and European Health Authorities.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

UENPS PROGRAM 2008-2010

Organization and management in collaboration with the hosting local society of the European Congress "Global Neonatology & Perinatology", every 2 years, with World Top experts. Next congresses will be held in Istanbul 2010 and Porto 2012.

Organization and support local workshops about specific topics according to the national societies.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

UENPS PROGRAM 2008-2010

Favouring exchange information about training sites according to the scientific and national societies.

Creation and development of the UENPS website.

UENPS wants to support, collaborate and add efforts to any scientific society with similar objectives as European Foundation for Care of Newborn Infant, EuroNeoNet, ESPR-ESN, etc..

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

UENPS PROGRAM 2008-2010

Promotion of multinational trials in collaboration with national and scientific societies.

Collaboration with nurse and other healthcare provider organizations involved in neonatal and perinatal care.

Meeting of the Executive Committee 10th February 2009, Ordem dos MédicosPorto, Portugal

UENPS member societies (n=24)

Neonatal Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bulgarian Neonatal Association

Croatian Society for Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care

Croatian Society for Perinatal Medicine

Czech Peri-Neonatal Society Dutch Neonatal Society Estonian Perinatal Society French Neonatal Society Georgian Neonatal Society Hellenic Neonatal Society Hungarian Perinatal Society

Italian Neonatal Society Latvian Neonatal Society

Lithuanian Neonatology Association Macedonian Neonatal Society Polish Neonatal Society Portuguese Neonatal Society Romanian Neonatology Association Romanian Neonatology Association Serbian Perinatal Society Slovakian Neonatal Pediatric

Society Slovenian Neonatal Society Spanish Neonatal Society Turkish Neonatal Society Association of Neonatologists of

Ukraine

UENPS partner societies (n=19)

EuroNeoNet (European Neonatal Network)

EFCNI (European Foundation for Care of the Newborn Infant)

AAP(American Academyof Pediatrics)

PSANZ (Perinatal Society of Australian-New Zealand)

National Neonatology Forum of India

Guangdong Neonatal Society Guangdong Perinatal Society Shanghai Perinatology Society Shanghai Neonatology

Society

Henan Pediatric Society Saudi Neonatology Association Emirate Neonatal Society Egyptian Society for neonatal and

Preterm Care EAN (Egyptian Association of

Neonatology) USANA (United South African Neonatal

Association) Vietnamese Pediatric Society Israel Neonatology Association NISONM (Nigerian Society of Neonatal

Medicine) Union of Central Eurasian Neonatal

Societies

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS

…so UENPS is not a “new” society in Europe but “the” Society of the European Societies understood as an integration of all societies, not for the single members of the community, and with this feeling concentrate in a single organization all of the European Societies.

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS

UENPS  must be different to any other medical society in terms of we have to be over them, offering not only scientific activities but helping to the European Community about standards of Neonatal Care, rights of the newborns in our countries. Our dream is to achieve a common management of the newborn to accomplish the right of the newborn to receive the best care independently where is was born.

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPS

We do not want to compete but we want to collaborate in all fields; education, research, guidelines and improve quality in perinatal assistance (better practices).

We want to collaborate with all European and International Societies of Neonatology and Perinatology. They are the welcome as partner societies or Scientific Associate Members.

UENPS – EFCNI partnership

To share information between societies of neonatology/perinatology and parents associations in Europe, giving possibility to develop collaboration in all fields to achieve the better quality in perinatal assistance.

Examples of partnership:

The Declaration of Rome (2008).

International Prematurity Day - 17th November 2009

European Parliament – 2nd December 2009

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Parents

Family

Health

Authorities

Professionals Professionals

Scientific Societies

Parents Associations

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPSFuture … (step by step)

To support, collaborate and add efforts to any scientific society or

organization with similar objectives : EFCNIEuroNeoNetESN / ESPR (European Board of Neonatology, Trials, Guidelines)

To support, advice and work together with local and European Health Authorities.

To facilitate European benchmarking

To Facilitate exchange people

UENPS Congresses every 2 years

To facilitate the organisation of the Friendly Family Hospitals.

Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies

UENPSNext year (2010)

Regionalization in Europe – Portuguese example

…all babies less than 32 weeks GA/1500 g must be born in a level III NICU