Understanding NHS financial pressures – good news for neonatal services?

The scale of the financial challenge facing the NHS has been well publicised. So too, in recent months, has been the deterioration in NHS performance against a number of key targets, such as A&E waits and ambulance response times. These missed targets undoubtedly point to a system struggling to cope, but how much do they tell us about the impact on patient care and are these pressures being felt in the same way across the system?