Special care babies to benefit from new nursing services
Residents across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire are set to benefit from two new services as part of the new, modernised special care unit for sick and premature babies being provided by Hywel Dda University Health Board. The new facilities at Glangwili Hospital will include four cots used solely for the purpose of providing extra care to babies nursed alongside their mothers. Previously this extra care has been provided in the special care unit, now these babies will be able to remain alongside their mothers. For the first time, this will enable their mothers to care for them with the support and expertise of the team responsible for looking after sick and premature babies. For the first time, a dedicated sick and premature babies special care nursing team will work in the community, visiting homes to support mothers and families to care for their babies at home. This new ‘neonatal nurse outreach team’ will provide specialist care to babies which was previously only ava...