Concern at neonatal cash shortfall
Updated on 04 November 2009
Efforts to improve standards of care for premature and sick babies have been thrown into doubt amid concern over funding.
Ministers have refused to allocate the cash needed to plug a shortfall of 2,700 nurses and 300 other specialist staff, such as physiotherapists and dieticians, on England's neonatal wards.
A Neonatal Taskforce was established last year by the Department of Health in response to the National Audit Office's criticism of standards of care for sick babies.
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