title: Poor standards.
abstract: Paediatric intensive care is suffering from years of bad planning, with little provision made for the needs of children, inadequate funding, and chronic difficulties in recruiting and retaining nurses. Speaking at a confer ence of the Royal College of Nursing Society of Paediatric Nursing, Sally Nethercott, Senior Nurse in Paediatrics at Guy's Hospital, said that of the 6,000 children needing intensive care each year, a third were nursed in adult units.