Tendai Nzirawa
Queens University Hospital, Essex, UK
Title: The past, present and future of the community neonatal nursing
Biography
Biography: Tendai Nzirawa
Abstract
Reviewing the data of the current community neonatal service in North East London over the past six years, there is political evidence of moving more hospital based services into community. In 2014, our trust closed level one special care baby unit and moved all neonatal services to the level two hospitals. The recent internal audits has shown the increase in early hospital discharge from the neonatal unit, increased home visits and increase in more complex babies being followed up by the community neonatal nurses. Reviewing all this evidence, the question would be what does the future hold for our pre-term and complex babies? Where our health care resources should be increased in terms of follow up in the community?