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January, Issue 4 

ESTEEM Newsletter  

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This month we welcomeWhipps Cross Hospital

(Midwives in photo, le) to

ESTEEM and new team

members Sal Higgins

(Research Midwife), Adele

Hamilton (PhD) and Eleni

Spyreli (Diecian) at Royal

London. 

Eect of Simple, Targeted diEt in prEgnant women with

Metabolic risk factors on pre-eclampsia 

Since ESTEEM started recruing in

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 

Royal London Hospital 

Newham University

Hospital 

Whipps CrossHospital

This month we celebrated

300 

 women recruited to ESTEEM. 

Targets per site: 6 per day 

This can be broken down to 4—2.

4 women with no risk factors and 2 women each day with risk

factors (to be randomised) 

ESTEEM Champions 

We would like to congratulate the following individuals who have provided

excellent support for the ESTEEM study and this month’s Champions: 

Royal London: Ajara Hanson  Newham: Sarah Kakembo

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ESTEEM RESEARCH TEAM; Contact us 

COMPETITION TIME 

You have to have recruited a minimum of

10 women in a month to receive this

voucher. That’s only 2-3 women per week! 

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November’s top recruiters are…

RLH– Zahra Moghadam

NUH– Florence Ojetunde

Congratulaons both- £10 voucher is on it’s

way to you. 

TOP RECRUITERS! 

Shakila Thangaranam, Chief Invesgator, s.thangaranam@qmul.ac.uk 

Kirsty Anderson, Trial Coordinator: kirsty.anderson@qmul.ac.uk, Tel: 020 7882 6049 

Bassel Waar, Research Fellow: b.waar@qmul.ac.uk 

Royal London

Sal Higgins 

07775 010531 

Newham University

Joanne Hutchinson 

07824 825279 

The Top Recruing Midwife 

Will be awarded £10 M&S Vouchers 

Whipps Cross 

Prudence Jones 

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. 

A moment with Sal Higgins; Research Midwife 

Training last year to become a Supervisor of Midwives at Brighton University reinforced the

importance of evidence-based pracce specically within the context of paent safety. For so much

of our pracce in Maternity Services there is a paucity of high-quality quantave and qualitave

research evidence hence working in a team to redress this seems a meaningful soluon. 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 paence and generosity of the

Royal London/QM team I think I have made a good start. 

I have been a clinical midwife for ten years working in a variety of sengs including

a couple of unforgeable 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 perspecve this has given me cannot be underesmated. I returned each

me with renewed enthusiasm for the value of our NHS and the commitment and

energy its principles demand.