Thillagavathie Pillay, Lynsey Clarke, Lee Abbott, Pinki Surana, Asha Shenvi, Sanjeev Deshpande, Joanne Cookson, Matthew Nash, Joe Fawke, Vishna Rasiah, Jonathan Cusack
BACKGROUND: In England, neonatal care is delivered in operational delivery networks, comprising a combination of the Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU), Local-Neonatal (LNU) or Special-Care Units (SCU), based on their ability to care for babies with different degrees of illness or prematurity. With the development of network care pathways, the most premature and sickest are mostly triaged for delivery in services linked to NICU. This has created anxiety for teams in LNU and SCU. Less exposure to sicker babies has resulted in limited opportunities to maintain expertise for when these babies unexpectedly deliver at their centre and thereafter require transfer for care, to NICU...
August 28, 2021: Advances in Simulation