Most areas have local networks of hospitals providing intensive carecots which health professionals ring round to find free places. However,the neonatal cot locator, launched by health minister Ivan Lewis earlierthis week, provides an online national system.
A spokeswoman from Bliss, the premature baby charity, said the locatorwould save time currently wasted on calling hospitals without cots andmake it less likely babies are sent further than they need to go. Shesaid: "It means babies may not go as far as if random calls were made."
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