Barriers to accessing paediatric critical care and surgery: A qualitative study

• Catherine El Zerbi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Catherine.El-Zerbi@lancaster.ac.uk

  Affiliation Senior Research Fellow, Division of Health Research, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-2379

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• Emer Cullen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Elaine Bidmead,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Health, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) for the North East and North Cumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Helena-Ulrike Marambio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Assistant Professor, Institute for Legal Gender Studies, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4795-0148

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• Rachel Agbeko,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Great North Children’s Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Associate Clinical Lecturer, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Julie Bloomfield,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Network Manager, North East & North Cumbria Paediatric Critical Care & Surgery in Children Operational Delivery Network, South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

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• Judith Rankin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) for the North East and North Cumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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