vCreate NICU Diaries is a Secure Video Messaging service that supports family engagement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In 2018 we became the first Neonatal Unit in the North West to initiate Vcreate and since this time all North West Neonatal Units have initiated the secure video messaging service. This has supported the continuation of the video diaries when babies have been transferred to and from our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Supports Family-Integrated Care
- Helps reduce separation anxiety when parents can't be on the unit
- Involves siblings, grandparents and extended family members with updates
- Share educational videos from the unit with families
Improve family wellbeing
- Improve breastmilk expression at home
- Capture and share visual updates of milestones and moments that may otherwise have been missed
- Parents can download their videos, photos and messages to keep forever
Digitise communication with parents
- Multi-language feature auto-translates messages to and from families
- Parents can access the service on any device at any time
- Create customisable forms, including Parent Passports
Designed for busy teams
- Videos and photos are taken without impacting clinical duties
- Less intrusive than live-streaming options
- Simple, intuitive and quick to use
vCreate Forms
VCreate Forms which can be accessed via your dashboard is where you will find useful parent information, digitialised paper forms such as the parent passport and where we share reminders with patients, families and staff
The nurses will ask if you wish to sign upto Vcreate on admission or soon after and will provide you with 'How to sign up and use Vcreate' leaflet
