§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what centres, providing perinatal and neonatal care, do not provide adequate intensive care facilities.
§ Sir George YoungPerinatal and neonatal care is provided in each of the 243 281W special care baby units which are associated with hospital maternity departments in England. In accordance with the recommendations of the expert group on special care for babies (1971) and the working party on the prevention of early neonatal mortality and morbidity (1974), facilities for long-term intensive care are concentrated in 42 combined special and intensive care units which are equipped and staffed to provide the highly specialised techniques of care required: these were listed in my reply to the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) on 22 October 1979.—[Vol. 972. c. 92–4.] A number of these (usually one or two per region) have a recognised commitment to admit babies on referral from other units.