This is your chance to get involved and help improve the care that babies born premature or unwell receive. Winning entrants will feature in the parent and carer guide to the NNAP. This is a key document in explaining the NNAP to families whose babies receive neonatal care. So, if you have a story to tell, please get involved! Our deadline is 19 August.
What is the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP)?
The NNAP helps neonatal units to improve the care provided to babies who need specialist treatment. This includes babies who are born too early, with a low birth weight or who have medical conditions. We use information about the care of these babies to help hospitals to improve the care and outcomes for other babies in the future.
Each year, the NNAP produces a national annual report and a parent and carer guide to the audit, called Your Baby’s Care. This national report recommends how we can improve neonatal care. We want to include your pictures and stories in our reports to help us show why it is so important to continue to improve care.
To see the different measures the audit investigates and find information on each neonatal unit in England, Scotland, Wales and Isle of Man, please access the data dashboard.
About the NNAP photo competition
We’re looking for pictures of you and your baby’s experience across the following categories:
- Your baby when they were first admitted to the unit
- Your baby getting help breathing
- Getting involved in your baby's care
- Soothing your baby while they receive treatment
- Your baby getting help feeding (tube feeding)
- Your baby on the unit and now them at 2 years old
- Additional photo
We accept one photo per category per person. You may enter as many categories as you like. If you have a photo that doesn’t link to a category, please feel free to share it with us under the 'Additional photo' category. We also need a short quote that describes the picture, the aspect of your baby's care it shows and what it means to you.
The deadline for entries is Monday 19 August.
We will select at least one overall winner to feature on the front cover of the NNAP summary report on 2023 data and the parent and carer guide, Your Baby’s Care, due to be published this autumn. We will select a range of different photos from each theme to feature in the Your Baby’s Care 2023 guide. The selected entries may also be used in other NNAP promotional materials in our future publications.
How to enter
- Select your photos – please ensure you don’t resize the photo as it may comprise the quality of the image and ensure the image is no larger than 20MB. Photos taken with a recent Smartphone will be of quality for this competition.
- Download and complete the entry form below - this includes the terms and conditions for you to read and accept. You will need to give your contact details, baby's first name, theme (if applicable) and a short quote about the photo(s).
- Email the form and your photo(s) to nnap@rcpch.ac.uk.
- If you have any questions about the competition, just email us on nnap@rcpch.ac.uk or call 0207 092 6158.
We look forward to seeing your photos!