Effect of paediatric retrieval service on clinical activity

EDITOR,—The correspondence1 generated by the report by Joseph Britto and colleagues on a specialised paediatric retrieval service2 prompts us to highlight the effect that such a service has had on our clinical activity. We have assessed the increased workload generated by our paediatric retrieval service by comparing the outside referrals to our unit over two consecutive two year periods, 1992-3 …