Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader, Kirsty Williams told a press conference today that neonatal care in Wales remains in desperate need of extra Assembly Government support, or vulnerable babies will continue to be put at risk.
Kirsty recently met with special baby care charity Bliss who are leading the call for increased specialist nursing provision so that the minimum standards for intensive care are met for babies, as they are for children and adults.
She said “I am supporting Bliss’s campaign for more specially trained neonatal nurses so that we can have the required one to one nursing. The Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling upon the Assembly Government to urgently address the need for some 120 specialist nurses, cots and resources. The threat of losing the UK opt out on the European Working Time Directive will make finding the right staff harder still. Welsh NHS Trusts need the funding to train nurses to Nurse Practitioner Level without sending them to England to get the skills they need.”
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