Puffin Trust

Public benefits

The beneficiaries are pregnant women with problems in pregnancy. The knowledge that is gained from the research helps Midwives and Doctors know what is the right thing to do to help these women in pregnancy. These pregnant women will therefore benefit from an advancement in health. The area of benefit is not confined to any geographical area. The

Trust obtains funds by organising educational courses for Midwives and Doctors. The Trust charges these Midwives and Doctors a fee to attend these courses and then uses this money to fund research. Pregnant women therefore also indirectly benefit as these Midwives and Doctors who attend these courses are better educated to carry out their jobs. Evidence of benefit to pregnant women; previous research funded: Reducing the risk of congenital malformation in children born to mothers with epilepsy Jim Morrow, Michael Kinney, Emma Devenny, Inez Cooke. Belfast Trust. Funded for £480 Assessment of maternal serum lipids in early pregnancy compared with conventional risk factors in identifying women at risk of gestational diabetes David McCance, Parag Thaware, Ian S Young. Belfast Trust and Queen’s University Funded for £900 Next Generation of Virtual World Environments for the Education of Midwives in Preparation for Stillbirth and Problem Birthing Scenarios Dr Joan Condell, Prof Marlene Sinclair, Dr Harkin, Ms McMonagle, Mr Callaghan. University of Ulster Funded for £900 Stillbirth in Northern Ireland: 2000-2010 Dale Spence, Alyson Hunter, Jim Dornan and Jason Gardosi . Queens’s University, Belfast Trust and Perinatal institute, Birmingham Funded for £900 The Role of Ureaplasma parvum in Premature Labour Peter Coyle, Akila Anbazhagan, Ciara Cox, Alison Watt; Regional Virus Laboratory and Royal Maternity Hospital Funded for £500 Psychotropic medications: A prospective study of the foetal outcomes following maternal psychotropic treatment for Bipolar Affective Disorder in pregnancy Rachel Morrow, Janine Lynch, Joy Bell, Peter Sloan; Belfast Trust Funded for £500 Virtual World Environments for the Education/Support of Mothers and Midwives in Preparation for Birthing Scenarios: A Working Prototype Joan Condell, Kerri McCrory, Marlene Sinclair, Elaine Madden. Ulster Hospital; University of Ulster Funded for £800 An Open-Label Randomized-Controlled Trial of Low dose Aspirin with an Early Screening Test For Pre-eclampsia and Growth restriction : A Pilot Study (TEST Study) Fionnuala Mone, Fionnuala McAuliffe, Fergal Malone, Marie Culliton, Alice Stanton, Paul Downey, Sean Daly, Mike Geary, Cecilia Mulcahy, Elizabeth Tully, Aine Toher, Patrick Dicker. National Maternity Hospital, Perinatal Ireland, RCSI, Coombe Women’s Hospital, Rotunda Hospital Funded for £800 Clinical utility of 3D Doppler ultrasound and maternal biomarkers in the prediction of pre-eclampsia in high risk women ( The PREDICT study) Kelly Ann Eastwood, Prof Ian Young, Valerie Holmes, Alyson Hunter. Belfast Trust and Queen’s University Funded for :£500 Evidence of educational courses organized: Medical disorders in pregnancy course, January 2011 Perineal repair, April 2011 MRCOG course, April 2011 Third degree course, December 2011 CTG study day, October 2011 Fetal Medicine study day, September 2011 Hands –on detailed normality scan course, February 2012 Medical disorders in pregnancy course, November 2012 Back to Normality course, December 2012 Early Pregnancy ultrasound course, April 2013 Fetal cardiac scan course, June 2013 Clinical genetics course, July2013 Basic, intermediate and 3D scan course, January 2014 Research, presentation skills, audit, clinical governance study day, June 2014 Twin pregnancy study day, September 2014 First trimester dating and Third trimester biometry and umbilical Doppler, November 2014 Twin pregnancy study day (repeat), February 2015 Computerised CTG study day, May 2015 No harm has arisen as a result of these research activities carried out.

What your organisation does

We raise funds by organising educational events and use this money to fund medical research.