Severe shortage of nurses in UK children’s intensive care units

Severe shortage of nurses in UK children’s intensive care units Britain’s sickest children are being treated in intensive care units that are struggling with severe shortages of the specialist nurses needed to look after them, a report says.

The shortages in the UK’s 30 paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) are so severe that healthcare assistants are covering the work of nurses in an attempt to ensure that staffing levels are maintained. The Guardian

See also:

• Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network Annual Report 2021 The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership