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Regional guidelines
Development of regional guidelines: the way forward for neonatal networks?
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
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Dr Cornette
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, AZ St-Jan, Ruddershove 10, Bruges 8000, Belgium; luc.cornette@azbrugge.be
Successful development of regional guidelines can help to achieve unified neonatal practice
Keywords: guidelines; regional; networks
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Within the United Kingdom, the recently published National Service Framework for Children’s Services argues that neonatal intensive care should be commissioned on a regional basis.1,2 Until recently, neonatal intensive care was provided by individual NHS trusts working in an ad hoc manner to provide intensive care support for an often ill defined geographical area. Traditionally, smaller units referred unstable babies to a regional centre. The transport of these babies was again provided in an ad hoc manner, usually by a retrieval team made up of the on call doctor and nurse from the receiving hospital. District hospital clinicians often felt frustrated at the inconsistent stabilisation procedures requested by relatively inexperienced transport doctors. One of the aims of establishing managed clinical networks is to make the clinical service more equitable across several organisations and often a large geographical area. This can be achieved by clinicians and trusts working in
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