Jill is a nurse and a midwife. She trained at Grimsby School of Nursing, and qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 1983 and a Registered Midwife in 1987. Jill has worked in antenatal and newborn screening since 2002 and in June 2003 was appointed to the post of Antenatal and Child Health Screening Manager at Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority. This role involved implementation of new antenatal and newborn screening programmes across the region. Jill gained her Master’s Degree in Population Health at the University of York in 2008. In 2013 she was appointed to her current post of National Programme Manager for the NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening Programme and enjoys the challenges of the role.
Delegates from universities across the country attended the first educators day held by the NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Programme (NIPE).
A total of 111 out of 139 maternity trusts are now using the NIPE SMART IT system.
A total of 110 out of 139 NHS trusts in England are now using the NIPE SMART (Screening Management and Reporting Tool) IT solution.
We launched the NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) e-learning module in November 2013 to: support clinical practice help address inconsistencies in the delivery and quality of the newborn and infant physical examination
...at first login US09 – correct date formats in export file US10 – remove ability to click Save twice (as that incorrectly resulted in the record being created without a...
...the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or General Medical Council (GMC). Unfortunately, this ruled out access for many direct entry student midwives. We therefore worked with the PHE safeguarding team...
...of the baby. References to the newborn and infant physical examination in the handbook relate to the 4 screening elements only: eyes heart hips testes The NIPE team took into...
...NIPE rollout includes the implementation of the national IT system, the Screening Management and Reporting Tool (NIPE SMART). The national programme supports trusts to achieve implementation deadlines and ‘go live’...
...38,000 newborn babies. This is likely to identify around 300 babies with heart problems. The NIPE team has worked with the 15 pilot site trusts who have now either aligned...