By Katie Lawson | Head of Fundraising & Comms
Our project to fund pulse oximetry machines has been one of our main areas of work over the past few years. When we placed our first pulse oximetry machine at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 2017, we set ourselves a target of placing 330 machines nationwide by April 2022.
We're very proud to announce that we've smashed that target, having now placed 489 pulse oximetry machines in maternity units across the UK! We have no intention of slowing down or stopping. Quite the opposite – more and more hospitals are applying for machines and we intend to keep fulfilling these orders, until there is no more postcode lottery and every newborn baby receives the test that could help save their life.
At present, pulse oximetry testing is not a mandatory newborn test within NHS hospitals, and many maternity units do not have the means to introduce these life-saving machines. For these reasons, Tiny Tickers is providing pulse oximetry testing kits in maternity units across the UK which can then be used as part of standard newborn tests.
Thank you for your support. You are helping to make this vision a reality,
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