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"The lack of availability of nursing/midwifery staff, due to the number of vacancies and sickness/absence levels, resulted in staffing on some shifts that did not always comply with the BAPM."
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The Betsi Board, local paediatricians, and the Community Health Council(CHC), all agreed that to conform with BAPM standards, North Wales should join a Managed Network for Neonatal Carewith nine other hospitals from the Chester and Merseyside Area, to provide Neonatal Intensive Care for dangerously sick and very premature babiesat Arrowe Park.
So who runs the health service now? LETTERS
Only at the lowest level of care needed (special care) was the BAPM guideline ratio of one nurse to every four babies being met.
Nurse and cots shortage 'puts premature babies at risk'
"We adhere to the BAPM guidance for nursing and midwifery staffing levels; intensive care has one nurse per baby, high dependency has one nurse per two babies and special care has one nurse per four babies."
NO GUARANTEES AND NO APOLOGY; Managers at baby deaths hospital refuse to promise changes despite unit crisis p
He added: "If the overcrowding is a situation that becomes the norm, there should be discussions about increasing the staffing levels to maintain the BAPM guidelines."
Overcrowding puts babies at risk, says doctor
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence(NICE), and the British Association of Perinatal Medicine(BAPM) reported in 2010, on standards for hospitals providing neonatal intensive care, giving guidelines for staffing and care which cannot be met by the Betsi Board.
The duty of care is personal to each baby; LETTERS
Clare Payne, the senior sister on the unit, said that one-to-one nursing care in intensive care, in line with the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) guidelines, was not feasible because of the lack of staff and resources.
'All these babies are our future population in Wales - these are the start of everyone,including our leaders' More than 3,500 premature and sick babies are born each year in Wales needing specialist hospital care but neonatal services are over-stretched and under-staffed. Health Editor Madeleine Brindley spent a morning at the David Ferguson neonatal intensive care unit in Newport
The main body that sets these standards is the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), part of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Moving intensive care for newborns to Arrowe Park will give babies the 'best chance for survival'
One of the authors and President of the BAPM, Professor Andrew Wilkinson, said that although the study was based on mothers who gave birth in 1999, ``there is no indication that the situation has got any better.'' He said, ``This study demonstrates a hazardous and unacceptable standard of care of high-risk mothers and their babies.''
Intensive care shortage `hazardous risk' HEALTH: Study's author says standard of care is unacceptable
BAPM (British Association of Perinatal Medicine) DID NOT say it is impossible to provide neonatal intensive care services in North Wales.
Put simply we think these proposals will present additional and unacceptable clinical risks to some of our sickest babies; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE SHAKE-UP
His personal opinion must be compared with evidence from the, National Clinical Forum, Auditor General, Assembly Childrens Committee, National Institute of Clinical Excellence(NICE) and the British Association of Perinatal Medicine(BAPM) who all agree the current service is undeliverable and unsustainableand therefore unsafe.
Sick babies should be the priority
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