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Women's and Neonatal Services
from A Year in Grants
Transforming Women’s and Neonatal Services at Whipps Cross Hospital
Mr Funlayo Odejinmi, Dr Reeba Oliver, Ms Kirsty Webb-Wood and Ms Deborah Twyman
Awarded £6.8M
The award supports the complete remodelling of the Maternity and Neonatal units and the creation of a Barts Charity Women’s Health Centre of Excellence at Whipps Cross.
A nurse preparing the incubator for a newborn baby
At least 50,000 women over the next 10 years will benefit directly from the service transformation and this investment will bring significant clinical and patient benefit, creating a cohesive maternity, neonatal and gynaecology service that will streamline patient pathways and ensure women receive safe, high-quality care.
Additionally, the funds will create a dedicated clinical research space enabling the expansion of the Whipps Cross based research team and will strengthen links with the academic team at Barts Women’s Health Research in East London (BARC), established in spring 2017.
BARC is leading population wide translational health research focused on tackling problems affecting mothers and their unborn and newborn babies. This investment will increase the volume of Neonatal and Paediatric research at all sites, with potential impact for mothers and babies worldwide.
