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 which are struggling with severe shortages of the specialist nurses needed to look after them, a new report reveals.
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 a bid to ensure that staffing levels are maintained.
