Cash Shortage Throwing Care of Premature and Sick Babies Into Crisis

Evening Standard - London › May 11, 2006

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LONDON'S special care baby units are overstretched, unsafe and understaffed, regularly forcing sick infants to be transferred miles to another hospital, a damning report said today.

An investigation by the London Assembly found that babies needing intensive care have been sent to Luton and Cambridge because of shortages. Doctors have even phoned Glasgow and Lille in France in a search for cots for dangerously ill babies, one mother reported. The report found: . None of the 29 units in London is meeting the recommended staffto-baby ratios.

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Cash Shortage Throwing Care of Premature and Sick Babies Into Crisis

. At least 500 more specialist nurses are needed in London to provide the ideal numbers.

. At least 16 cots in London are empty due to lack of staff.

. Units...

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