TY - JOUR T1 - Parental presence during neonatal transfers conducted by a national transport service JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - 207 LP - 208 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324228 VL - 108 IS - 2 AU - Heather Sharon Hodgson AU - Allan Jackson Y1 - 2023/03/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/108/2/207.abstract N2 - Approximately 10% of babies admitted for neonatal care in the UK experience at least one interhospital transfer.1 Studies show that parents associate such transfers with significant distress and anxiety,2 even for stable repatriations.3 4 National neonatal organisations advocate parental accompaniment in transfers, but parental presence varies among UK neonatal transport teams (18.4%–60.3%).5 The ScotSTAR neonatal transport service, responsible for neonatal transfers across Scotland, has recorded consistently high rates of parental presence in transfer over the preceding 3 years.5 We reviewed road transfers conducted by ScotSTAR to explore how clinical and operational factors affect parental presence.Electronic records for neonatal road transfers between January 2017 and March 2020 (preceding the COVID-19 pandemic) conducted by … ER -