Joanne is a midwife, having qualified as a Registered Midwife in 2002 and gained her Master’s Degree in Public Health in 2009, both from the University of Sheffield.
She has worked in NHS trusts as a midwife and antenatal and newborn screening midwife. Joanne joined Public Health England in 2013 and worked within the screening and immunisation team (SIT) in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw and also had a secondment as NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening Programme (NIPE) Implementation Lead. Joanne was appointed to Clinical NIPE Project Lead in 2019 and commenced her current secondment as Clinical NIPE Project Coordinator in 2020 for the PHE NIPE screening team.
The NHS newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme is looking for practitioners in the field of neonatal and infant cardiology and cardiac surgery to review the NIPE heart screening pathway.
Let us know what you think of the proposed changes to the NHSP standards.
New guidance aims to reduce additional and avoidable stress for families at an extremely difficult time.
Read about what has changed recently in the NHS NIPE programme handbook.
The NIPE e-learning module has been updated and refreshed.
The sessions ran throughout January and February and were well attended, with 282 attendees over the 4 dates.
Updated newborn and infant physical examination programme handbook and screening pathways are now available.
An update from the newborn infant physical examination programme team.