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

Report reveals healthcare assistants are covering the work of nurses in 29 of the country’s 30 specialist 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.

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