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Repro Free: 03/09/2014
Lara Bayliss (3) from Bray Co Wicklow is pictured at the launch of the Temple Street national Spina Bifida services research report. This report shows the gross under-resourcing of services for children with Spina Bifida both in Temple Street and across the country. These children have extremely complex needs but the research showed that 54% of them do not have access to a multidisciplinary team (MDT) clinic despite the fact that 69% of children with SB over three years use a wheelchair, 93% of them over five years require continence support and 64% of them have a VP shunt to manage hydrocephalus. Picture Andres Poveda
