ESTEEM Newsletter

January, Issue 4
Effect of Simple, Targeted diEt in prEgnant women with
Metabolic risk factors on pre-eclampsia
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the fourth edition of the ESTEEM newsletter.

information?

This month we welcome

Whipps Cross Hospital

Website

(Midwives in photo, left) to

http://

ESTEEM and new team

blizard.qmul.ac.uk/

members Sal Higgins

research-

(Research Midwife), Adele

generation/866-

Hamilton (PhD) and Eleni

esteem

Spyreli (Dietician) at Royal

London.

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Since ESTEEM started recruiting in

This month we celebrated

300
women recruited to ESTEEM.

September we have recruited 334

women into the study.
Of these 81 have been randomly
allocated to ESTEEM diet or standard
dietary advice.

ESTEEM Sites

Open

Targets per site: 6 per day

This can be broken down to 42.
4 women with no risk factors and 2 women each day with risk

Royal London Hospital

factors (to be randomised)

Newham University
Hospital
Whipps Cross
Hospital

ESTEEM Champions
We would like to congratulate the following individuals who have provided
excellent support for the ESTEEM study and this months Champions:

Royal London: Ajara Hanson

Newham: Sarah Kakembo

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A moment with Sal Higgins; Research Midwife

I have been a clinical midwife for ten years working in a variety of settings including
a couple of unforgettable trips to Ethiopia. There I taught obstetric emergency skills
and drills in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce
child (perinatal) mortality and improve maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa. The
sense of perspective this has given me cannot be underestimated. I returned each
time with renewed enthusiasm for the value of our NHS and the commitment and
energy its principles demand.
Training last year to become a Supervisor of Midwives at Brighton University reinforced the

importance of evidence-based practice specifically within the context of patient safety. For so much
of our practice in Maternity Services there is a paucity of high-quality quantitative and qualitative
research evidence hence working in a team to redress this seems a meaningful solution. My passion
is to enquire to reveal facts which will improve outcomes for women and babies.
I look forward to developing as a research midwife and thanks to the patience and generosity of the
Royal London/QM team I think I have made a good start.

COMPETITION TIME

TOP RECRUITERS!
Novembers top recruiters are

The Top Recruiting Midwife

Will be awarded 10 M&S Vouchers

You have to have recruited a minimum of

10 women in a month to receive this
voucher. Thats only 2-3 women per week!

RLH Zahra Moghadam

NUH Florence Ojetunde

Congratulations both- 10 voucher is on its

way to you.

ESTEEM RESEARCH TEAM; Contact us

Royal London

Newham University

Whipps Cross

Sal Higgins

Joanne Hutchinson

Prudence Jones

07775 010531

07824 825279

07837 227370

*Newham Midwives*: please note Joanne will be on annual leave in January

however Alicia Law will cover for the ESTEEM study at Newham.
Shakila Thangaratinam, Chief Investigator, s.thangaratinam@qmul.ac.uk
Kirsty Anderson, Trial Coordinator: kirsty.anderson@qmul.ac.uk, Tel: 020 7882 6049
Bassel Wattar, Research Fellow: b.wattar@qmul.ac.uk