Embrace five years on – where are we now?

In December 2009 Embrace started life as the first and only combined neonatal and paediatric transport service in the UK. Its conception began two years earlier with much planning to merge the four existing unit-based neonatal and paediatric transport services in Leeds and Sheffield. The concept of a team that could safely and efficiently move not only extremely premature babies but also children up to 16 years old was not universally accepted initially, but over the last five years views have changed and early sceptics are now great believers and supporters of our service.