We need to reduce pressure on children’s services during winter
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We need to reduce pressure on children’s services during winter

Christine Walker @RCNi_Christine Editor, Nursing Children and Young People

Amid the calls by opposition politicians for funds to bail out NHS trusts this winter, the NHS has been making plans to avert a crisis similar to the one it experienced last year. Cast your mind back to what was, arguably, the NHS’s lowest point last winter: the Red Cross’s warning that the NHS was facing a ‘humanitarian crisis’.

Nursing Children and Young People. 29, 8, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.29.8.5.s1

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