A new Paediatric nurse team improve A&E services for children in West Cumbria
The service was launched toward the end of 2020 and operates 12 hours a day, seven-days-a-week. Emily Ware, Georgina Swindle, Hannah Chamley, Elspeth Fox-McNabb, Kim Scott, are a new team of paediatric nurses working in A&E at West Cumberland Hospital. They will be joined by other nurses on the next rotation to the ward. Susan Mein, interim head of safeguarding, said: “Having the dedicated paediatric staff in A&E has meant the safeguarding team is able to link directly with those staff and we have seen an increase in child safeguarding incidents and concerns reported. “Having a ...
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