Preparing for Home: a before-and-after study to investigate the effects of a neonatal discharge package aimed at increasing parental knowledge, understanding and confidence in caring for their preterm infant before and after discharge from hospital Jennifer Ingram, 1* Peter S Blair, 1 Jane E Powell, 2 Sarah Manns, 2 Heather Burden, 3 David Pontin, 4 Margaret Redshaw, 5 Lucy Beasant, 1 Claire Rose, 6 Deborah Johnson, 1 Daisy Gaunt 7 and Peter Fleming 1 1 School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 2 Health and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK 3 South West Neonatal Network, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK 4 Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK 5 National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 6 Neonatal Medicine, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK 7 Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK *Corresponding author Declared competing interests of authors: none Published March 2016 DOI: 10.3310/hsdr04100 Scientific summary Preparing for Home: a before-and-after study Health Services and Delivery Research 2016; Vol. 4: No. 10 DOI: 10.3310/hsdr04100 NIHR Journals Library www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk